Churchill Downs has begun selling 30-year seat licenses - ranging in price from $18,000 to $75,000 - for the right to buy finish-line box or table seating at the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby.

The licenses will include the Breeders' Cup when it is run periodically at Churchill Downs.

Patrons will have the rights to their assigned boxes or tables, but still must buy tickets to the Oaks, Derby, and Breeders' Cup. The licenses can be transferred, but if sold must first be offered back to Churchill Downs.

CHICAGO - Yes, the aging turf horse Al's Dearly Bred is taking a class drop on Sunday at Arlington, but only if you take the short view. Al's Dearly Bred ran a month ago for an $80,000 claiming price, and in Sunday's featured fifth race he is in for $62,500, his lowest level in quite some time. But consider that at age 4, the 7-year-old Al's Dearly Bred could have been purchased out of a race for only $10,000.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - According to trainer Steve Bryant, Tobe Suave has moved up five lengths since his 1 1/4-length win over Future Flash in the Burnaby Breeders' Cup July 1. If that's the case, Take Suave will be very tough to beat as the favorite in the $40,000 Jim Coleman Province Stakes at Hastings Sunday. The 1 1/16-mile feature drew eight 3-year-olds, including Lord Samari, last year's local 2-year-old champ who is coming off of a troubled second in the Alberta Derby June 19.

Sunday's card also includes the $40,000 Nanaimo for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Another Lovelysong, a Washington-bred from trainer Greg Tracy's stable, steps up from a $7,500 claiming victory to take on five other 3-year-old fillies here Sunday afternoon. The optional $32,000 claiming feature is the seventh of eight races on the final card before Thursday's opening of Klondike Days.

Another Lovelysong won her seasonal debut here July 2, sprinting 6 1/2 furlongs. It was her first race since a winter campaign at Turf Paradise. Real Simard has the return mount on Another Lovelysong.

AUBURN, Wash. - Swingn' Notes will try to repeat her success in last month's one-mile Irish Day Handicap on Sunday, when she takes on seven challengers in the $40,000 Kent Handicap at 1 1/16 miles.

Swingn' Notes, a 3-year-old daughter of French Deputy from the barn of trainer Bud Klokstad, came from just off the pace to win the June 13 Irish Day by one length in 1:37.60. It was the third win from as many tries around two turns for Swingn' Notes, who also won the mile Corte Madera Stakes last December at Golden Gate.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Bill Perry faces a pair of tough questions in the aftermath of the smashing debut by Miss Matched on Thursday afternoon at Monmouth Park.

Where should he next run Miss Matched, a 2-year-old daughter of Formal Gold, following her 12 1/2-length romp? And should he entertain the offers from the bloodstock agents who keep his cell phone chiming?

Neither question has an easy answer.

Late afternoon on Friday, power remained off at Churchill Downs's simulcast wagering facility, Trackside, following powerful thunderstorms in Kentucky and southern Indiana on Tuesday evening. This forced the cancellation of betting at Trackside on Friday for the third consecutive day.

The loss of wagering at Trackside, which regularly has the highest handle of any offtrack betting location in the state, has dramatically reduced in-state wagering on Ellis Park races and the profits the track generates from such wagers.

CHICAGO - In the end, trainer Laura de Seroux couldn't find a reason not to return to Arlington Park next weekend with Ballingarry and Toasted. So earlier this week, de Seroux changed course and decided to ship the pair of grass horses from her Southern California base back to Chicago.

OMAHA, Neb. - Dusty Spike, Tonight Rainbow, and Stormy Impact, the one-two-three finishers in the Omaha Handicap here a year ago, face off again in this year's renewal of the race on Sunday, closing day of the Horsemen's Park Summer Festival of Racing.

The $100,000 Omaha Handicap drew a field of 10 older runners. Dusty Spike, the defending champion in the mile race, was scheduled to arrive Friday afternoon by van from his base in Oklahoma and will start from post 9, the same spot he came from last year.

Me Son will attempt to become the second Calder-based runner to win a stakes at River Downs this year when he meets nine opponents in the $40,000 Hoover Stakes for Ohio-bred 2-year-olds. The Hoover, the first 2-year-old stakes of the meet, will be run at 5 1/2 furlongs.

Outrageous Queen, the Ohio-bred winner of the Tomboy Stakes in May, was the first Calder-based stakes winner of the meet.

A three-length winner of a $12,500 maiden claimer in his debut, Me Son was subsequently unplaced in two open stakes. All three races were at Calder.