LAFAYETTE, La. - Streak of Smoke, second in the "Shine" Young Futurity in his most recent trip to the post, will try to do one better Saturday night as he heads up the cast for the Evangeline Downs Sales Futurity. The $35,000-guaranteed, five-furlong feature is for 2-year-olds consigned and passed through the sales ring at the 2003 Evangeline Downs 2-year-olds in training sale in March.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - It's time to get back on the bus.

Eight weeks after their rollicking Triple Crown ride ended in the Belmont Stakes, the connections of Funny Cide, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner, will pile into their yellow school busses and make their way to Monmouth Park for Sunday's $1 million Haskell Invitational, in which seven 3-year-olds were entered on Thursday morning.

DEL MAR, Calif. - For the fourth time in the first seven days of racing at the Del Mar meeting, there is a carryover in the pick six. On Wednesday, no tickets had all six winners, leaving a carryover of $137,285 for Thursday's eight-race program.

The pick six covers the third through eighth races on Thursday. Here is a glance at the changes and leading contenders.

Three of the six races are for maidens and one is run on turf.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Don'tsellmeshort stunned trainer Dan Hendricks with an upset win in Wednesday's $125,000 Graduation Stakes at Del Mar.

Ridden by superb gate jockey Patrick Valenzuela, Don'tsellmeshort led throughout the 5 1/2 furlongs to win by three lengths.

"I didn't think he'd outbreak and outrun those horses that easily," Hendricks said.

Don'tsellmeshort had finished fourth as the favorite after a poor start in the Haggin Stakes at Hollywood Park on June 21, but made no mistakes in the Graduation Stakes for state-bred 2-year-olds.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - The "second season" for 3-year-olds starts Sunday afternoon with significant stakes at Monmouth Park and Saratoga.

Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide headlines the $1 million Haskell at Monmouth while Empire Maker, the Triple Crown spoiler in the Belmont Stakes, returns to action in the $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga.

The two races set the stage for the ultimate divisional showdown of the summer: the $1 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 23.

The field for the Grade 1 Haskell has slowly started to assemble at Monmouth.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Allen Jerkens, who has made a career out of upsetting heavy favorites in graded stakes, had the tables turned on him last month when Shine Again, the 7-10 favorite, was upset by Shawklit Mint in the Grade 2 Vagrancy Handicap at Belmont Park.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - And you thought the Lone Star Park meet had already ended this year.

Well, it has, but Lone Star fans can get a taste of their regular medicine in Arlington's feature race Friday. Here we find jockey Corey Lanerie riding for trainer Steve Asmussen, an ubiquitous combination at Lone Star the last two seasons.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Grant Marty a Wish can continue trainer Doug O'Neill's dominance of turf sprints at Del Mar in Friday's $75,000 Daisy Cutter Handicap over five furlongs.

O'Neill won the first two five-furlong turf sprints of the meeting, scoring with FJ's Pace last week and with Maria's Mirage on Monday.

Grant Marty a Wish has excelled in turf sprints at Hollywood Park in recent months and will be favored against a full field of fillies and mares.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Last week, fans at Northlands Park were treated to their first look at the top 2-year-old colts and geldings in Alberta in the Edmonton Juvenile, and this week the top 2-year-old fillies and mares will take to the track in the 24th running of the Princess Margaret.

While there is little to work with in terms of past performances, one of the favorites will be Greg Tracy's entrant, Another Lovelysong.

AUBURN, Wash. - Friday's second leg of the Harley Hoppe and Associates Marathon Series at 1 1/4 miles will have the look of a rematch, with the top three finishers from the initial nine-furlong leg returning. Five others join the fray at Emerald Downs for the race run under $10,000 starter allowance conditions.