NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - The $75,000 Governor's Buckeye Handicap will be run at Thistledown for the first time and has drawn a strong field of 12 Ohio-bred 3-year-olds and up. The other 51 runnings of the 1 1/4-mile race were held at River Downs.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Raving Rocket returns from a three-month layoff and heads a field of nine 2-year-old colts and geldings entered in the $40,000 Prairie Meadows Freshman Stakes.

Raving Rocket scored a gate-to-wire 9 3/4-length win over maiden special weight company in his debut at Arlington on May 31, going 4 1/2 furlongs over a sloppy racing surface.

Trained by Larry Rivelli, Raving Rocket earned a solid 77 Beyer Speed Figure for his debut win but has not raced since.

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. - Local 2-year-old Yukon's Gambler is fourth choice in a field of six at 4-1 on the morning line for the $25,000 Buckpasser Stakes at Fairmount Park, but trainer Kim Hammond likes her horse's chances.

"I've always been one who feels that the people from the hometown track have the edge," said Hammond, a Fairmount regular who through Thursday has sent out 25 winners from 162 starts this meet. "He's been training excellent, and he had such a good showing with [Rafael] Bejarano."

COLUMBUS, Neb. - What About David aims for his second stakes win of the meet when he faces a tough field of six entered in the $10,000-added Labor Day Handicap at the Columbus Races.

The field for the 6 1/2-furlong race may be small, but the quality of competition is high, as Watch Me Dazzle, Iowa invader Blue Eyed Tiger, and Thundering Verzy are all capable of winning.

Stretching out from six furlongs to a two-turn route race is never easy, let alone doing it in stakes company. So even though Schedule was beaten a head in the Serena's Song at Monmouth Park in July, the race may have signified a breakthrough.

On Monday, Schedule will make her second two-turn start, against nine rivals in the $100,000 Pennsylvania Oaks, one of two supporting stakes on the Pennsylvania Derby undercard at Philadelphia Park.

Caribbean Cruiser will be a heavy favorite Monday to win the second of three juvenile stakes of the Finger Lakes meet, the $217,000 New York Breeders' Futurity for New York-breds at six furlongs.

The New York Breeders' Futurity is the featured stakes race of three on the Labor Day card, all for New York-breds. The $75,000 New York Oaks kicks off the stakes triple, followed by the $50,000 Genesee Valley Breeders' Handicap and the New York Breeders' Futurity. They will be run as races 7 through 9.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - In many ways it's a long way from Saratoga to Hastings, the small five-furlong oval that sits right next to the Georgia Inlet in Vancouver. Victory Light, who has been racing with the aristocrats of racing in the East, will be able to see the Pacific Ocean when he makes his first start on the West Coast in the Richmond Derby Trial on Monday.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The final weekend of the Del Mar meeting starts on Saturday with a pick six carryover of $150,826.

On Saturday's 10-race program, the pick six covers the fifth through 10th races.

Here is a glance at the late changes and leading contenders.

DEL MAR, Calif. - In the 1960's, there was the Summer of Love. On "Seinfeld," there was the Summer of George. And this year at Del Mar, it has been the Summer of Julio.

Trainer Julio Canani has been the unquestioned star this season at Del Mar. With just a modestly sized 25-horse stable, Canani won three of this track's five Grade 1 stakes races, including a one-two finish in the Eddie Read Handicap. He has won two other stakes, giving him five for the meet, more than any other trainer.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Domestic Dispute's second-place finish to Kela in the Pat O'Brien Breeders' Cup Handicap on Aug. 15 served as a wake-up call.

The race was Domestic Dispute's first start since a sixth-place finish in the Dubai World Cup in March, and the way he finished through the stretch left trainer Paddy Gallagher encouraged about a late-summer and fall campaign.

Gallagher's feeling will be tested when Domestic Dispute starts in Sunday's $250,000 Del Mar Breeders' Cup Handicap over a mile.