MIAMI - Supah Blitz, who rebounded from a 13th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby with an impressive allowance win over older horses on the grass earlier this month, will remain on turf and run in Saturday's $50,000 Roman Brother Stakes here. The Roman Brother is a restricted race for 3-year-olds who were kept eligible for the Florida Stallion Stakes series.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. - With Canterbury Park's pick 6 having gone unclaimed for a ninth consecutive card, Saturday's Claiming Crown guaranteed pick 6 pool has been increased from $50,000 to $200,000.

With the potential for the season's biggest crowd and a nationwide simulcast crowd, Canterbury's all time pick 6 payout of $222,812 could be threatened. That benchmark has been in place since 1986.

Post time for the first Claiming Crown pick 6 race, the Iron Horse, is 3:09 p.m. Central.

In her first North American start, Wild Spirit demolished a field that included three Grade 1 winners, taking the Grade 2 Shuvee Handicap at Belmont Park on May 17 by a widening 3 1/2 lengths.

For an encore, the Chilean-bred Wild Spirit will attempt to beat three more Grade 1 winners when she runs in Sunday's Grade 2, $750,000 Delaware Handicap at Delaware Park. The Del 'Cap, which will be shown live on ESPN2 from 5-6 p.m. Eastern, tops an 11-race card at Delaware that includes three other stakes races.

It's called the American Derby, but the most likely winner is from the United Kingdom. Californian, bred in England, and Evolving Tactics, bred in Ireland, are the two favorites in a field of seven 3-year-olds entered in the $250,000 American Derby, a Grade 2 race to be run Sunday at Arlington Park.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - It would take longer than the running time of Sunday's $150,000 Sunset Handicap, a 1 1/2-mile turf race, to explain fully the circumstances surrounding the eight-race losing streak that has plagued Cagney.

"We've got a whole book of excuses," trainer Richard Mandella said.

Mandella is hoping that Cagney can revive his career in the Grade 2 Sunset Handicap. A 6-year-old, Cagney has not won since the Grade 3 Carleton Burke Handicap at Santa Anita in October 2001.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - For some trainers, the Hollywood Park spring-summer meet is ending Sunday just in time.

In recent weeks, some trainers have criticized the dirt surface, saying that warm weather has created hard conditions and forced them to stop training some of their runners.

Some trainers say that their horses have been injured because of the track, and that as a result they won't be able to run at the lucrative Del Mar meet, which begins Wednesday.

The Oak Tree Racing Association will offer the richest stakes schedule in its history this fall at Santa Anita, from Sept. 28 to Nov. 9, a meeting highlighted by the Breeders' Cup on Oct. 25.

Overall, there are 40 stakes worth $19,250,000.

Oak Tree will open on a Sunday, also the final day of the Los Angeles County Fair meeting at Fairplex Park. The Sept. 28 program features four major stakes that are preps to Breeders' Cup races. Four other Breeders' Cup prep races will be run on Oct. 4-5.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Three years ago, in the 26th start of his career - and first for trainer John Terranova - Gander won the Evan Shipman Stakes by two lengths.

Sunday, in the 52nd start of his career, the 7-year-old Gander will seek to duplicate that feat when he takes on 10 challengers in the 23rd renewal of the Evan Shipman, a $100,000 stakes for New York-breds at 1 1/16 miles that highlights Belmont Park's closing-day program.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Mineshaft, whose devastating victory in the Suburban Handicap vaulted him to the top of the handicap division, will skip the Grade 1 Whitney Handicap at Saratoga on Aug. 2 and instead make his next start in the Grade 1 Woodward at Belmont Park on Sept. 6, trainer Neil Howard confirmed Friday.

AUBURN, Wash. - Trainer Bob McMeans, who will saddle Strikes No Spares in Sunday's 1 1/16-mile Boeing Handicap, and trainer Grant Forster, who will send out both Secondary School and Tamarack Bay, fretted earlier this week about whether there would be enough speed in the $40,000 stakes at Emerald Downs to set up the late runs of their closers.

As it turns out, there was good reason to worry.