OCEANPORT, N.J. - The Devils brought home a third Stanley Cup to the Continental Airlines Arena last week.

Giants Stadium hosted World Cup soccer, arguably the biggest sporting event in the world.

The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority has set its sights on adding one more Cup to its glittering collection: The Breeders' Cup.

A contingent of executives from the NJSEA, the agency that runs The Meadowlands Sports Complex as well as Mon-mouth Park, will travel to Lexington, Ky., Friday to make a formal presentation to host the Breeders' Cup.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - When trainer Wayne Catalano gets rolling, he makes winning horse races look easy.

Class-droppers, turf horses, claimers, and 2-year-olds - Catalano's stable will go through a month-long cycle at Arlington winning everything in sight. So when Catalano hits a dry spell - it's inevitable - a blip can quickly feel like a drought. And as of Wednesday, Catalano and his owner, Frank Calabrese, had lost 18 straight races. Before the string of losers, they had been winning at about a 40-percent clip, making this fallow period seemingly last forever.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Michael Doyle has enjoyed some success in big races as the underdog. The Doyle-trained Wild Gale finished third in both the 1993 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes.

Doyle finds himself cast in a similar role here Sunday, when he saddles the relatively unheralded Button Wood in the $1 million Queen's Plate at 1 1/4 miles.

"He just gets better all the time, it seems," said Doyle. "He's very consistent. He tries hard."

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - The status quo remained relatively intact in stakes here over the last two weeks.

Kalfaari picked up where he left off last Sunday, winning his sixth in a row in the $35,000 Free Press and, in his usual fashion, making it look closer than it was.

Owned and trained by Clint Willson, the 6-year-old Kalfaari forced the pace outside Wondrous Zeal, shook that rival in early stretch, and was immediately taken on by Deputy Country to his outside. Deputy Country gave it all he had down the lane, but Kalfaari had that old familiar look in his eyes.

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan - Double Time is poised to put forth a top effort in Friday's $5,000 Inaugural Handicap. The six-furlong Inaugural, for 3-year-olds and upward, is the first of 18 stakes on the 2003 schedule and attracted a field of five.

Double Time will try to assume the role of top older horse in the province, now vacant after Beau Ring left to set up shop at Assiniboia Downs.

MIAMI - The Judge Sez Who, one of the leaders of the Florida handicap division, will be out of action until the fall because he recently had surgery to remove a chip from his left knee.

The Judge Sez Who finished fourth behind Best of the Rest in his only two starts this year, the $1 million Sunshine Millions Classic on Jan. 25 and the Grade 3 Skip Away Handicap on April 20. A son of Judge T C, The Judge Sez Who was a multiple Grade 3 winner as a 3-year-old in 2002, closing out the year by upsetting Best of the Rest in the Fred W. Hooper Handicap at Calder Dec. 28.

NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - Jockey Nena Matz has displayed vast improvement since she last rode at Thistledown, during the 2000 season.

The last two seasons she has ridden at Sunland Park, where she met and married Zachary Armstrong, a trainer who has 20 head at Thistledown.

LAFAYETTE, La. - Trials for the $100,000 D.A. "Shine" Young Futurity, the highlight of the Evangeline Downs stakes program, were held last Friday, with the first four finishers in each of the three qualifying races moving on to the July 4 finals.

LINCOLN, Neb. - Owner-trainer Herb Riecken has always had a tremendous amount of success in stakes at State Fair Park. On Sunday, Riecken picked up his first win in the six-furlong President's Cup Handicap with Buzz Bar, an 8-year-old who had not raced in over 14 months.

Cat Singer, who as a 2-year-old last year won at first asking by 11 lengths at River Downs, made a successful return to River on Tuesday, winning a nonwinners-of-three allowance for Ohio-breds by 2 1/2 lengths. The victory was the third in six career starts for Cat Singer, and came on the heels of a third-place finish in the Checkered Flag Stakes at Indiana Downs on May 26.

In addition to his perfect record at River Downs, Cat Singer has been competitive in allowance company at Mountaineer and Keeneland.