Zee Oh Six will be back to defend his title in the $75,000 Oklahoma Classics Day Classic at Remington Park on Saturday night. The 1 1/16-mile race is the richest of seven stakes for statebreds on the nine-race card. The stakes, held at night for the first time, are worth a combined $285,000.

Most of the races drew large fields when entries were taken on Wednesday. There were 14 horses entered in both the $35,000 Lassie for 2-year-old fillies, and the $35,000 Juvenile, while fields of 12 are expected for both the $35,000 Filly and Mare Turf, and the $35,000 Turf.

MUSKEGON, Mich. - Rockem Sockem upset his highly regarded stablemate Heza Mountain Man in Tuesday night's $45,000 Patrick Wood Stakes at Great Lakes Downs. Rockem Sockem ($8.60), runner-up in his last three starts, won his maiden by a neck in the six-furlong race for 2-year-olds.

Bob Gorham trains both Rockem Sockem and Heza Mountain Man, who came into the race off a victory in the Little Ones Stakes on Aug. 23. He defeated Rockem Sockem by nearly two lengths that day.

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. - The featured attraction of Tuesday's Illinois Day, the Pete Condellone Handicap, lost much of its luster when the top two finishers from last year's running, Baker Road and Moe B Dick, were scratched, reducing the field to four and prompting management to cancel both trifecta and show wagering on the race.

This left a virtual match race between 8-year-old Tic N Tin, horse of the meet here in 2000-01 but whose form had not quite been up to par this season, and Bulldog George, who as a 3-year-old last year was named the meet's top horse.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Perfect Drift knocked off Mineshaft in June and Congaree in September, and both wins were perceived as upsets. Sunday, on opening day at Hawthorne Race Course, the hunter becomes the hunted. It is Perfect Drift who tops the Grade 2 Hawthorne Gold Cup, a $750,000, 1 1/4-mile handicap that seems likely to lure just five starters.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - It's official: The first three finishers from the Atto Mile will be heading to Keeneland for next Saturday's Shadwell Turf Mile.

The Shadwell Mile, a Grade 1 race worth $600,000, had been on the schedule of Touch of the Blues prior to his win here in the Sept. 14 Atto Mile.

The connections of Soaring Free and Perfect Soul, the two-three finishers in the Atto Mile, had expressed an interest in the Keeneland race and have followed through on those inclinations.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - It seemed like trainer Terry Brennan could not lose at Louisiana Downs last week. In fact, he didn't.

Brennan rolled a perfect week, winning with all five of his starters. He had training doubles on Friday and Sunday, and sandwiched in between, sent out Blocked Call to win his fourth straight race on Thursday.

That's the kind of meet it has been for Brennan. He had won with 12 of 21 starters through Wednesday, and ranks fifth in the standings at Louisiana Downs.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - The future looks bright for the New Jersey Thoroughbred Festival following an auspicious debut.

The inaugural day to showcase the state's Thoroughbred breeding program on Sept. 20 drew a solid crowd of 9,100, making the 11-race card for New Jersey-breds the best attended day of the post-Labor Day portion of the meet.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Bay Meadows Breeders' Cup Handicap is taking on a different look than it had earlier in the week.

Decarchy, who looked like a probable entrant, will pass in favor of a possible engagement in the Grade 2, $300,000 Oak Tree Breeders' Cup Mile next weekend.

Bonaguil, looking for his first U.S. victory, has also dropped off the list of probable runners.

Nonetheless, the Bay Meadows Breeders' Cup Handicap, the meet's premier stakes, will have a field of 10.

Co-world champion Whosleaving-who will try to avenge a fifth-place finish in the Grade 1 Go Man Go Invitational Handicap when he faces the top three Go Man Go finishers in the Grade 1, $200,000 Los Alamitos Championship at 440 yards on Saturday night at Los Alamitos.

ANDERSON, Ind. - Next week's Indiana Derby and Indiana Breeders' Cup Oaks are generating quite a buzz as both Grade 3 races are expected to draw strong fields.

The connections of Grand Hombre, Wando, and Wiggins have said they are headed this way for the derby, which will be run Saturday, Oct. 4.