SASKATOON, Saskatchewan - Five fillies and mares will try to catch Tweed in Saturday's $5,000 Matron Handicap at six furlongs.

Tweed, a well-traveled 7-year-old, merits top billing based upon her 2-for-2 record at Marquis Downs, with her most recent score coming two weeks ago in the allowance prep for the Matron.

That race was run over a muddy course. Tweed assumed command early in the race, opened up a couple lengths, and was never really challenged while scoring by 1 1/4 lengths in 1:14.10. Tim Moccasin retains the mount.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Tom Agosti saddled just three horses during the past week at Fort Erie and scored with two of them.

His 16 wins puts him in a tie for first place in the trainer standings with Layne Giliforte. Agosti, however, has 29 fewer starts than his rival, who has 76.

The loss this week, to Woodbine shipper Ocean Front, was by less than two lengths. It came in Sunday's 1 1/16-mile Bridgeport, the first stakes of the season. Agosti said he believes that his runner, Right Stop, the race's 5-2 second choice, was the victim of bad racing luck.

MIAMI - When he began his 3-year-old campaign, The Name's Bond was struggling to win his entry-level allowance condition. Halfway through the season, The Name's Bond finds himself at the top of his division at Calder, a spot he can solidify with a victory in Saturday's $100,000 Unbridled Stakes.

The Name's Bond did not make a name for himself until mid-March when he shipped up to Ocala and won the restricted Ocala Breeders' Championship by three lengths. Since that time he has won two races, including the Simply Majestic Stakes by nearly seven lengths on May 24.

Devon Rose seeks her fourth staight win and a shot at the big time in the $100,000 Obeah Handicap for fillies and mares on Saturday at Delaware Park. Nine were entered.

After racing last fall and this winter strictly on the turf, Devon Rose switched to the dirt March 13 at Gulfstream Park and suddenly caught fire. She won a two-other-than allowance that day, then went on to win her next two starts, at Delaware - a $50,000 optional claimer on May 3 and the $58,000 Summer King Stakes on June 2.

Co-world champion Whosleavingwho will have a rematch with Catchmeinyourdreams, upset winner of the MBNA America California Challenge over Whosleavingwho on May 31, in the Grade 1, $159,100 Spencer Childers California Breeders Championship during California Breeders Champions Night at Los Alamitos on Saturday.

The California Breeders Champions Night brings out the premier California-bred stakes horses, who compete for $918,250 in purses during the 14-race program. First post time is 6:30 p.m. Pacific.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Express Tour makes his first start of the year and leads a strong field of seven, including an entry, in Saturday's $125,000 Iowa Sprint Handicap at Prairie Meadows.

Express Tour, a 5-year-old son of Tour d'Or owned by Darley Stud and trained by Eoin Harty, will be making his first start since October, when he tired to finish eighth in the Grade 2 Meadowlands Cup Handicap. Express Tour is winless in five starts since capturing the Grade 2 Jerome Handicap at Belmont in September 2001, but he has trained forwardly at Santa Anita over the past several months.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. - A competitive field of eight 3-year-old fillies will contest the $40,000 Canterbury Oaks, a 1 1/16-mile race scheduled for the turf course.

With Kristina's Wish, trainer Hugh Robertson will be looking for his second consecutive Oaks victory. Robertson and Jer-Mar Stables, the connections of Kristina's Wish, captured last year's running with Sarah Jade.

LAFAYETTE, La. - No Its Not, already a winner of the John Henry Handicap this meet, heads Saturday's Evangeline Downs Sprint Handicap at six furlongs. The $35,000 race drew a field of five.

Oak Hall, the winner of this stakes the past two years, took ill after being nominated to this year's edition, and the race now appears to be No Its Not's to lose.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Mobil and Wando, both owned and bred by Gustav Schickedanz and trained by Mike Keogh, wound up with favorable post positions and are the horses to beat here in Sunday's $1 million Queen's Plate.

The two will race as separate betting interests, with Mobil rated as Daily Racing Form's 9-5 favorite and Wando as the second choice at 5-2.

A field of 13 was announced here Friday morning at the ceremonial draw for the 144th running of the Queen's Plate, a 1 1/4-mile race for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds, which is the first leg of the Canadian Triple Crown.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - It's a fun night with a serious side. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association All-Star Jockey Championship, which will be held for the seventh time Friday night at Lone Star Park, is at its core a fund-raiser for the Disabled Jockeys' Endowment.