FORT ERIE, Ontario - Monday could be a big day for apprentice jockey Kris Robinson, who will ride in both halves of the stakes doubleheader carded on the Civic Holiday program.

Robinson, 26, became a stakes-winning rider when he captured the Border Cup here two weeks ago aboard Prospective Gal.

Trained by Daryl Ezra, Prospective Gal will be the likely favorite in Monday's first stakes, the $60,000-added Lauries Dancer. The 1 1/16-mile race drew a field of six Canadian-foaled fillies and mares, 3 and up, who have started at least twice at the current meeting.

MUSKEGON, Mich. - Born to Dance, the reigning Michigan horse of the year, will face Sefas Rose, who handed her her lone defeat at Great Lakes Downs, and seven other Michigan-bred fillies and mares in the $45,000 Moonbeam Handicap Monday. The Moonbeam, at 1 1/16 miles, is carded as the fourth of nine races.

Sefas Rose, who is owned by Farid and Joan Sefa, won the Larkspur Handicap on May 24 here, defeating Born to Dance and four other of her Moonbeam rivals. Since the Moonbeam, she has finished second in allowance company at Thistledown and Ellis Park.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Federal Highway, making his first start around two turns, overcame a troubled trip and re-rallied after falling behind late to defeat Blue Slew's Shoes by a nose and win the $53,540 James F. Lyttle Memorial Handicap on Friday at the Sonoma County Fair.

Boots on Sunday held off Ski Bum by a neck to win his second straight $30,000 J.R. Straus Memorial on Friday at Retama Park, before an opening night crowd of 4,569. It was another length back in third to Two Punch Sonny.

Boots on Sunday broke well as the 3-5 favorite, and dueled with Wild Axe through an opening quarter in 22.24 seconds. He took command of the race soon afterward, and was game in deep stretch when challenged first by Two Punch Sonny on his outside, then by Ski Bum to his inside.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Monmouth Park shipper Quick Blue ($10.30) led all the way to take the Grade 3, $164,550 Royal North Handicap for fillies and mares at Woodbine.

Quick Blue, who won the 2001 Bison City Stakes at Fort Erie, recorded splits of 22.56 seconds and 45.53 in the six-furlong turf dash. Mysterious Affair and Leading Roll tracked the pace, but Quick Blue drew clear in the final furlong to win by 1 1/2 lengths over Mysterious Affair.

"Our game plan was to try to get to the lead," said Emile Ramsammy, who rode Quick Blue. "We got the trip we wanted."

Syncline, checked and steadied while bottled up down the backstretch, came through along the inside turning for home and won the $100,000 Sussex Handicap at Delaware Park.

Syncline, ridden by Brent Bartram, won the 1 1/16-mile turf race by a nose over Dr. Kashnikow, with Sardaukar another half-length back in third. Mus-If, the 2-1 favorite, finished sixth in the field of seven.

Trained by Jonathan Sheppard, Syncline paid $24.40 to win. He ran the distance in 1:42.17.

Cellars Shiraz, sent off at 2-5, gave her backers some anxious moments when stumbled at the start of the $50,000 Convenience Stakes at Calder. But under Cornelio Velasquez, Cellars Shiraz gathered herself to stalk the pace, took the lead on the far turn, and won the 1 1/16-mile turf race by 1 1/2 lengths.

Company B finished second in the field of eight 3-year-old fillies, with Cagey Move third.

Cellars Shiraz, trained by Bill Cesare, completed the distance in 1:42.79 and paid $2.80.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Forever Partners stamped herself as a 2-year-old filly to be reckoned with down the road in the $50,000 Colleen Stakes at Monmouth Saturday, winning by 11.

Forever Partners, a New Jersey-bred trained by Anthony Dutrow, broke well under Chuck Lopez and raced four wide through the early part of the 5 1/2-furlong race before taking the lead at the half-mile pole. She raced four lengths clear of the field turning for home and cruised home.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Lord Shogun rides a four-race win streak into Monday's $100,000 Manitoba Derby and will be the one to beat in the 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds at Assiniboia Downs.

The Manitoba Derby, a Grade 3 race, is the highlight of the biggest day of the meeting.

Monday's card also features the $30,000 Wheat City and Jack Hardy and the $40,000 Winnipeg Futurity.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Sixthirtyjoe spots his archrival, Timely Ruckus, six pounds as he seeks his sixth stakes victory of the year in Monday's $50,000 Northlands Sun Sprint Championship.

Owned, trained, and bred by Deanne Davies, Sixthirtyjoe will carry 124 pounds, two more than he packed in the 1 1/16-mile Klondike just nine days ago. Monday's race is at 6 1/2 furlongs, same distance as the Journal, which Sixthirtyjoe won earlier in the meet.