FORT ERIE, Ontario - Callendars, one of two 3-year-olds in a field of seven, will almost certainly be favored in Monday's $60,000 Centre Stage Anne Stakes at Fort Erie.
The Centre Stage Anne, a six-furlong race restricted to Canadian-bred fillies and mares, is the supporting feature on Monday's Bison City Stakes program.
Owned by Eugene and Laura Melnyk and trained by Phil England, Callendars returns to the site where she has scored both of her lifetime wins.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Cathy's Star and Miss Sandy Dee, the co-highweights at 123 pounds, will break from opposite ends of the starting gate here in Monday's $30,000 Canada Day Stakes for fillies and mares at one mile.
Miss Sandy Dee, last year's top local older mare, rides a four-race winning streak into the Canada Day. Her last loss ccame in this race a year ago when she finished fifth.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - First-time starter Frankiefourfingers led all the way in the $164,550 Clarendon Stakes for Canadian-bred 2-year-olds Saturday at Woodbine.
Favored Brighton Ridge, a first-timer who cost $1 million as a yearling, broke slowly in the 5 1/2-furlong dash. Frankiefourfingers set fractions of 22.28 and 46.03 seconds while being tracked by Lucky Larue, who finished two lengths behind in second. Magic Jack was third, while Brighton Ridge rallied belatedly to be fourth. The final time was 1:05.26 over a fast track.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Can any of the other six horses entered in the $75,000 Lieutenant Governors' on Monday beat Kid Katabatic? Probably not, but two trainers, Terry Marshall and Steve Bryant, think that Prodigious has an excellent shot in the 1 1/8-mile Hastings Park feature.
Kim Hart, the owner of Prodigious, employs both Marshall and Bryant as his trainers. Marshall, who has horses stabled here and in northern California, has been the main caretaker of Prodigious, but when Hart's horses run here, they race under Bryant's name.
EDMONTON, Alberta - Providing ample evidence that this season is not a vintage one for 3-year-old fillies at Northlands Park, Canada Day's featured Chariot Chaser will go with a field of four.
The Chariot Chaser, honoring the filly who beat the boys here in the 1965 Canadian Derby, is a
6 1/2-furlong sprint worth $40,000.
The Penny Ridge, a race for 3-year-old fillies on closing day of the Stampede Park meeting, June 16, could draw a field of just five.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Tails of the Crypt, Woodbine's top 3-year-old, will meet several of the more accomplished older runners on the grounds in Monday's Grade 3, $219,800 Dominion Day Handicap.
The 1 1/4-mile event has also lured Churchill Downs invader Bonus Pack, along with Canadian champions A Fleets Dancer, Catch the Ring, and Win City.
Kentucky-bred Tails of the Crypt was on the Kentucky Derby trail after finishing second in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby in March, but was shipped back here after his subpar showing in the Grade 2 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland.
If Marilyn's Madness could talk, she certainly would be bragging about her two sons. What mother wouldn't proudly point out that her offspring produced two track records in different states on back-to-back days?
Marilyn's Madness is the dam of 3-year-old gelding Coco's Madness and his 5-year-old full brother Magical Madness. Both sons were sired by Sword Dance.
Coco's Madness, making his first start on turf, set a Delaware Park turf course record on May 26, winning a mile allowance race in 1:34.88 and jumping up 30 points on the Beyer Speed Figure scale to a 92.
PLEASANTON, Calif. - Jason Lumpkins, who led all riders with seven stakes victories at Bay Meadows, will remain on the fair circuit in northern California rather than riding at Del Mar.
"I didn't feel [Del Mar] was the right situation," said Lumpkins, who finished second to Russell Baze in the jockey standings at Bay Meadows for the second straight year. "I've decided to stay up here."
BOSSIER CITY, La. - Halo Cat upset 2-5 favorite Beau's Town by 4.25 lengths Friday in the $50,000 Kings Court Stakes, opening day feature at Louisiana Downs. It was another 3.25 lengths back in third to Ski Bum.
Halo Cat($9.20) was prominent throughout the Kings Court, then drew clear in the stretch under Gerard Melancon. He covered six furlongs over a fast track in 1:09.40.
The win was the fourth straight victory for Halo Cat, who won two Lone Star Park allowances and the $30,000 Manor Downs Sprint Classic leading into the Kings Court.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - To assess the chances of a European import making his United States debut, one starts by analyzing the home team. The reviews are not always positive.
Six U.S.-based runners and one foreigner entered the Grade 3 Cinema Handicap for 3-year-old grass runners, to be run Sunday at Hollywood Park, and it takes no imagination to poke holes in the locals' form.
