MIAMI - Mention the name Eddington and one immediately thinks about his battles earlier this season against Smarty Jones, Birdstone, and Tapit in prestigious races such as the Wood Memorial, Preakness, Belmont, and Travers. And as a result of that reputation, Eddington is likely to go off the favorite when he drops in against Grade 3 competition in Saturday's $200,000 .

MIAMI - If there is one standout in the eight stakes races on Saturday's Festival of the Sun program at Calder, it's Spotlight, who holds a decided edge over her 11 rivals in the $200,000 Calder Oaks.

ships to south Florida off a second-place finish behind Ticker Tape in Arlington Park's Grade 3 Pucker Up Handicap. Ticker Tape returned off that race to win the Grade1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes last weekend at Keeneland.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Trainer Neil Morris's primary job before Saturday's Grade 1, $175,000 Breeders' Cup Steeplechase will be keeping Sur La Tete calm.

A promising newcomer, Sur La Tete recently graduated from the novice ranks and beat veteran jumpers by 11 1/2 lengths in the Grade 2 Metcalfe Memorial in late September at Monmouth Park.

"We're going to have Sur La Tete run his race and see if he's good enough," said Morris. "It seems good enough against the horses we've met so far. He's earned the right to be there."

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The Meadowlands Racetrack remembers the late Hall of Fame trainer P.G. Johnson Saturday night with the first running of a stakes named in his honor.

Johnson holds the Big M stakes record with 19 victories. His Volponi ran second in the 2002 Meadowlands Breeders' Cup Stakes and used that race as the springboard to his stunning upset in the Breeders' Cup Classic.

The Johnson, for 3-year-old fillies at five furlongs on the turf, was split into a pair of $55,000 divisions.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Todd Pletcher is used to being in the catbird seat when it comes to 2-year-old stakes. So it must take a special horse to make him issue what amounts to a concession speech even before Saturday's $100,000 Sleepy Hollow Stakes is run.

"I'd say we're all running for second, assuming Galloping Grocer runs the same way he has been," said Pletcher, who sends out Carminooch in the Sleepy Hollow. "But it's a horse race. Anything can happen."

ELMONT, N.Y. - Handicappers will have a difficult time settling on a favorite for Saturday's $150,000 Ticonderoga Handicap on New York Showcase Day at Belmont Park.

Seven of the 12 runners in the 1 1/8-mile turf race for fillies and mares carry 118 pounds as the co-highweights. There are four also-eligibles.

Trainer Todd Pletcher has a coupled entry of .

Beebe Lake, third in last year's Ticonderoga, finished fifth in the Voodoo Dancer Stakes against open company in her last start. She was beaten three lengths.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Quiet Ruler paid $93 and $42.80 in winning the last two runnings of the Mohawk Handicap on New York Showcase Day at Belmont Park. Quiet Ruler's form coming into Saturday's Mohawk looks bleak, but then again, he does his best when the odds are stacked against him.

is among 12 New York-bred turf horses entered in the 1 1/8-mile Mohawk.

The best finish this year from Quiet Ruler, who hasn't won a race in 10 starts since last year's Mohawk, was third in a steeplechase race in April.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Rare Cure, who ran his biggest race of the year when he went turf to dirt, will make the same move Saturday in the $100,000 Assault at Lone Star Park. The 1 1/16-mile race is one of four Texas-bred stakes on the 10-race program that complements inductions into the Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

Will Farish and Nelson Bunker Hunt will be enshrined at a ceremony following the races. The other stakes on the program are the $75,000 Allen Bogan Memorial and two $50,000 stakes for 2-year-olds bred in Texas.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - It's all Cajun cooking Saturday afternoon at Harrah's Louisiana Downs. A menu of 13 races restricted to Louisiana-breds will be offered in the annual Louisiana Breeders' Festival with a total of $750,000 in purse money at stake.

First post will be moved up from the usual 2:05 p.m. Central to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Happy Ticket, already a two-time stakes winner here this meeting, puts her perfect four-race career mark on the line in the Louisiana Breeders' Oaks at 1 1/16 miles.

ANDERSON, Ind. - Ellens Lucky Star has been nearly perfect in her career at Hoosier Park, and Saturday should prove no exception as she defends her title against nine other Indiana-bred fillies and mares in the $40,000 Merrillville Stakes at six furlongs.