EDMONTON, Alberta - Bettors will benefit from wide-open fields here on Saturday's Alberta Fall Classic Day, the richest day of Thoroughbred racing in the province this year. Northlands has carded seven stakes worth a total of $400,000.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Palace Rose appears to have the best chance of upsetting the powerful Dave Forster-trained four-horse entry in the British Columbia Breeders' Cup Oaks Saturday at Hastings.

Palace Rose, a daughter of Mecke, comes into the Oaks off of a game win in a $40,000 starter allowance on the turf at Del Mar Aug. 25. And it was the manner in which she won that prompted trainer John Snow to purchase her and ship her to Hastings for the Oaks.

Medium Rare can tie a record set by top Oklahoma-bred sprinter Highland Ice if he wins his fourth consecutive Oklahoma Classics Day Sprint at Remington Park on Saturday night. The six-furlong race is one of seven statebred stakes on a card worth $315,000, making for one of the richest nights of the meet.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Mike Mareina has been a going concern here since relocating from the Texas-Louisiana circuit in the spring of 2003, particularly on the 2-year-old front.

And while Mareina has yet to saddle a stakes winner here, that could well change in Saturday's $136,000 Swynford, as he has What's Up Dude and Olympia Fields on call for the seven-furlong feature.

"I'm going to enter both of them and take a look," said Mareina, who trains both horses for Kuehne Racing.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Imperialism and Borrego arrived together from Southern California on Wednesday for the Grade 2, $500,000 , and will end up side by side in the starting gate when the 1 1/8-mile race is run for the 25th time Saturday at Louisiana Downs.

Entries for the Super Derby, as well as three supporting stakes, were taken on Wednesday.

POMONA, Calif. - Bettors face two questions Friday in the $100,000 Las Madrinas Handicap at the Los Angeles County Fair. The first is deciding whether Shezsospiritual will reproduce her most recent start, a romping win just 12 days ago in the E.B. Johnston Stakes over the five-furlong Fairplex Park track.

The second question requires more risk, with possibility for greater reward: How much improvement will Tale of a Dream produce while making her first start for her new trainer, Jeff Mullins?

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Stakes winners Sweet Problem and Spanish Decree are among the nine horses in Friday's Woodbine feature, a 6 1/2-furlong turf allowance.

The conditions of the race - for nonwinners of a first-place prize of $45,660 since July 1, other than in a maiden or claiming race - indicate it may have been written for Sweet Problem, who captured the 6 1/2-furlong Alywow Stakes here June 13. He earned $67,200 that day for owner K.K. Sangara and trainer Lorne Richards.

ELMONT, N.Y - A bullet five-furlong work from Artie Schiller on Wednesday at Belmont Park suggests he is ready to win his fourth stakes on Sunday in the Grade 2 Jamaica Handicap for 3-year-olds on the grass.

, with jockey Richard Migliore in the saddle, covered the distance in 1:00.06. After the work, Migliore told Artie Schiller's trainer, Jimmy Jerkens, that the colt was startled by a shadow during the work over the training track.

"He was going so relaxed around the 3 1/2 [furlong] pole and then he jumped a shadow," Migliore said to Jerkens. "He kind of fooled me."

ELMONT, N.Y. - So far, Possibility hasn't lived up to the possibilities connected to her regal pedigree - by A.P. Indy out of Personal Ensign - but she should find herself back in the winner's circle in Friday's eighth race at Belmont Park.

is among nine fillies and mares entered in the first-level allowance at seven furlongs on the dirt. She drew post 2 and will be ridden by John Velazquez.

Expectations have always been high for Possibility because of her bloodlines.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - One reason Castleton Lyons sent Conspiring to the United States from Ireland was to get a stakes victory.

Conspiring, 4, will get that chance Saturday in the $55,000-added Hillsborough Handicap for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles over the turf.

"The owner felt there were more opportunities here," said John O'Donoghue, assistant to Conspiring's trainer, Neil Drysdale. "There are more stakes races with older fillies."

The Hillsborough, a graded stakes at one time, seems the perfect spot for Conspiring on paper.