VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Dancewithavixen won her seventh stakes race of the year, by a neck in the Grade 3, $172,225 Ballerina Breeders' Cup.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Decarchy, the winner of the Grade 2 Frank Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita in 2002, has been bought by Dennis Narlinger and Rich and Gaby Sulpizio as a stallion prospect, and will be pre-entered for the $1.5 million Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita on Oct. 25.

Decarchy finished fourth in the Grade 2 Kelso Breeders' Cup Handicap at Belmont Park on Oct. 4. He was second in the Grade 1 Eddie Read Handicap at Del Mar in late July.

ARCADIA, Calif. - After finishing behind Breeders' Cup hopefuls Tates Creek and Musical Chimes in the Grade 1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes on Sept. 28, Red Rioja has an easier task in Wednesday's second race at Santa Anita. She faces four opponents in a $65,000 optional claimer over a mile on turf.

"It's still not easy to win a race around here," said her trainer, Ben Cecil.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Picking winners must have been a particularly tough chore at Keeneland last week, at least as the afternoons wore on. The pick six jackpot was barren last Wednesday, but after five straight days of going unhit, the carryover following the Sunday card had crept up to $90,030, a fair amount for a track that typically attracts minimal action on the pick six.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Since the Keeneland fall meet started Oct. 3, there has been no hotter trainer in North America than Nick Zito.

Zito enjoyed one of the most memorable 24-hour periods of his 30-plus-year training career on opening weekend. After winning two of Keeneland's major stakes - the Phoenix Breeders' Cup Stakes with Najran and the Breeders' Futurity with Eurosilver - he won the Grade 1 Champagne at Belmont with Birdstone.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The locals have had a tough go of it in recent editions of the E.P. Taylor Stakes, the Grade 1 turf race for fillies and mares that is the companion feature to the Canadian International here Sunday.

Hero's Love, in 1993, and Fly for Avie, in 2000, have been the only Woodbine-based runners to win the Taylor in its last 25 runnings, with European 3-year-old fillies taking away most of the laurels.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Barbara Minshall will hold a very strong hand in Wednesday's $129,000 Deputy Minister Stakes at Woodbine if she decides to run both Battlements and Snake Pit in the seven-furlong dash for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds.

Battlements captured the six-furlong Afleet Stakes with authority June 21. He reappeared two months later, against older Ontario-sired opponents in the Shepperton Stakes. He trailed in the seven-horse field after a wide trip, but was beaten only 3 1/4 lengths.

Mobil ($3.90) went over the $1 million mark in career earnings with a 6 3/4-length score in Monday's Grade 3, $159,900 Ontario Derby at Woodbine. He opened up a clear lead at the three-sixteenths pole before loafing a little in midstretch, but proved a comfortable winner in 1:51.99 in the 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds.

"He's earned $1 million the hard way," said Todd Kabel, who rode Mobil. "He strutted his stuff today, but you could see that he's a tired horse."

Cape Power was just as sharp in the main event as he was in his prep a month ago.

A 4-year-old colt trained by Tim Grams and ridden by Anthony Mawing, Cape Power ($4.40) drew clear to a 2 3/4-length victory in the $225,000 West Virginia Breeders' Classic, one of eight stakes for West Virginia-bred, -sired, or -raised horses on Saturday at Charles Town.

Cape Power prepped for the 1 1/8-mile Classic by winning the seven-furlong Robert Hilton Memorial on Sept. 13. He has now won 6 of 18 lifetime starts, all at Charles Town.

MUSKEGON, Mich. - On Saturday's Michigan Sire Stakes card, which featured six races for the progeny of Michigan stallions, Sefas Rose won a Sire Stakes for the third straight year, and Goldinrunner established himself as the top handicap runner in the state. Each of the six races was worth just over $120,000.

In the Sire Stakes for fillies and mares, Sefas Rose took command from the outset and won by nine lengths in 1:54.41 for 1 1/8 miles under jockey Freddie Mata.