WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Kalfaari goes for his fourth stakes win this year and his fifth win in as many starts when he faces eight other older horses here in Saturday's $30,000 R.J. Speers Stakes at 1 1/16 miles.
Owned and trained by Clint Willson, Kalfaari last raced in the Aug. 5 Wheat City Stakes, defeating Sir Pucker by three-quarters of a length.
Kalfaari probably will come from off the pace, which likely will be contested by Sir Pucker, Deputy Country, and perhaps Stritzel.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Reade Baker has been on a roll recently, sending out first-time starters Dolly Dynamite and Wire Whip to impressive victories for Stronach Stable at Woodbine last week.
Baker will be looking to pull off a feat of a different order Sunday when Light the Path, a filly whom he claimed for $40,000 here Aug. 2, contests the La Prevoyante Stakes in her second outing for the Mobile Stable.
Light the Path and the La Prevoyante, a one-mile turf race for Ontario-sired 3-year-old fillies, would have seemed an unlikely combination earlier this summer.
FORT ERIE, Ontario - Campbell Wilson has had his trainer's license for less than a year, but already he has put one of his runners into the Fort Erie record book.
On Monday, the Wilson-trained Oh Mar captured a five-furlong turf race in 56.80 seconds, breaking the record of 57.20 set by Plein D'Esprit in 1998 and since equaled by four runners.
The win was the sixth of the year for Wilson, who received his license late last September. The 26-year-old native of Niagara Falls, Ontario, sports a 27 percent win rate in 2002, and has had 22 starters.
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan - Good Old Sprite is on the verge of local stardom and can solidify his claim to Saskatchewan horse of the year honors with a win in Saturday's $6,500 City of Bridges Stakes for Saskatchewan-bred 3-year-old colts and geldings.
The City of Bridges is run over 1 1/16 miles and headlines the final card of the Marquis Downs meet.
Good Old Sprite, owned by R J Stable, is looking for his sixth win of the year and his second stakes score.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Bud and Jackie Reynolds, who race their horses under the name Jam Jar Racing Stable, have the kind of problem that most people in Thoroughbred horse racing would love to have. They have two very good 3-year-olds, Shaws Creek and Tails of the Crypt, and the Reynoldses really don't want to run them against each other.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Icecoldbeeratreds led a sweep of the first four positions for Bob Baffert trainees in Wednesday's $250,000 , highlight of the closing-day card at Del Mar. The victory gave Baffert his seventh consecutive victory in the Grade 2 race.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Eltawaasul may offer the best value among several runners with a chance in Friday's $58,000 classified allowance race at 1 3/8 miles over Belmont Park's Widener Turf Course.
The seven-horse field includes four horses who were within 1 1/2 lengths of each other in an Aug. 21 allowance race at Saratoga, as well as the Bill Mott-trained Megantic.
ELMONT, N.Y. - In an era when so many talented horses are retired prematurely, Raging Fever and Gold Mover - two of the precocious juvenile fillies from the crop of 2000 - keep on performing at the highest level.
Now 4, an age when owner-breeder Edward Evans could have turned them into broodmares, Raging Fever and Gold Mover are still accomplishing great things on the track.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Mandy's Gold can run fast. Saturday, she will have to prove she can run far.
Mandy's Gold, a multiple sprint stakes winner, will try to stretch out beyond a mile for the first time in her career when she runs in the Grade 1, $300,000 Ruffian Handicap at Belmont Park.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Gulfstream Park has named Joanne Jones as its new television racing analyst for the 2003 meet, which opens on Jan. 3.
Jones, a former foreman for Hall of Fame trainer Jack Van Berg, will offer detailed commentary, handicapping advice, and analysis to be broadcast live in-house and across Gulfstream's extensive simulcast network.