MIAMI - Silver Wagon, upset winner of the Hopeful Stakes and the No. 1-rated male 2-year-old in the country in Daily Racing Form's Watchmaker Watch, has returned to training at his home base at Calder. And while his connections have yet to confirm Silver Wagon's next start, trainer Ralph Ziadie said Wednesday that Belmont's Grade 1 Champagne Stakes on Oct. 4 remains under serious consideration.

AB What a Runner is undefeated, a champion, a millionaire, and a world record holder, yet the 3-year-old filly will be making just her second stakes appearance in the Grade 1, $100,000 Mildred Vessels Handicap at 400 yards on Saturday night at Los Alamitos.

Apollos Ten Bears tries for his third stakes win of the year when he heads the Grade 3, $61,900 Altoona Derby on Friday night at Prairie Meadows.

On Saturday night, fastest-qualifier None as Easy is after her second stakes win in the Grade 2, $143,850 Valley Junction Futurity.

Three 3-year-olds were made late nominees to the Grade 2, $500,000 Super Derby: Soto, the undefeated West Virginia Derby winner; Grand Hombre, the undefeated Pennsylvania Derby winner who was recently purchased by Darley Stud; and Traffic Chief, who has won four of five career starts. In all, 12 horses remain eligible for the Sept. 20 race at Louisiana Downs, including Dynever, Eye of the Tiger, and Travers winner Ten Most Wanted.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Questions abound regarding Sunday's seventh running of the $1 million Atto Mile, a one-turn turf race that has never been won by the favorite or a front-runner.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Soaring Free will be looking to become the second Atto Mile winner for Mark Frostad and Sam-Son Farm on Sunday.

On form there is little resemblance between Soaring Free and his successful predecessor, Quiet Resolve, besides the fact they both will have contested the Atto Mile as 4-year-old geldings. Quiet Resolve actually finished second in the 1999 Atto Mile, beaten a head, but was declared the winner when Hawksley Hill was disqualified.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Mike Iammarino continued his stakes-winning ways in the $35,000 R.J. Speers last Saturday on a pick-up mount that could end up as Manitoba's horse of the year.

Iammarino, a former three-time leading rider in Alberta, guided Northern Affair to a two-length victory over Deputy Country in the 1 1/16-mile Speers. The race was Northern Affair's first try against older horses

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan - An average live handle of $21,169 for the recently concluded 30-day Marquis Downs meeting represented a solid 9.1 percent increase compared to 2002.

The handle of $43,156 on last Saturday's closing-day program was the largest here in many years. The highlight of the card was the $15,000 Saskatchewan Derby, won by the locally owned Alberta ship-in Beauzak.

Attendance figures are not kept.

Both the trainer and jockey titles went to first-time winners.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Bob Baffert tends to shake his head in wonder at Congaree. While Baffert has trained a litany of sensational racehorses in recent years, not many have caught his fancy the way Congaree has.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Wando already has overcome two major obstacles this year en route to his sweep of the Canadian Triple Crown.

Now, Wando will face his highest hurdle to date, as he'll be cutting back from 1 1/2 miles to a mile on the turf course and facing some talented open-company older runners in Sunday's Grade 1, $1 million Atto Mile.

"He's done everything he's been asked to do," said Mike Keogh, who trains Wando for owner-breeder Gustav Schickedanz. "I don't think I'd want to swap [chances] with anyone."