ETOBICOKE, Ontario - It would be fitting for owner John Atto to have an entrant in the race he sponsors.

And while the Sept. 8 Atto Mile currently is little more than a speck on the horizon, In Frank's Honor will take the opening step on his possible path to that Grade 1 feature when he makes his local bow for trainer Sandy McPherson in Saturday's Connaught Cup at Woodbine.

In Frank's Honor was claimed for $62,500 from his last start at Gulfstream on March 2, which was a winning effort over 1 1/16 miles of firm turf.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Fort Erie's signature race, the Prince of Wales Stakes, will be televised nationally in Canada this year.

The July 21 race hasn't had such exposure since the Ontario Jockey Club, which is now known as the Woodbine Entertainment Group, reached an agreement with CTV Sports Group in 1998. The purpose of the accord was to get a bigger presence on television for Canadian horse racing because its visibility was shrinking on the CBC network.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Stakes winners Orphan Lover and True Tear Drops square off in Saturday night's $60,000 Bob Bryant Stakes at Prairie Meadows.

Orphan Lover enters the Bryant, a six-furlong race restricted to Iowa-bred 3-year-old fillies, off a 2 3/4-length allowance victory against older runners here 10 days ago. Last October, Orphan Lover posted a gate-to-wire victory over open company in the Prairie Meadows Debutante.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. - Seven well-matched 3-year-old colts are entered in the $35,000 St. Paul Stakes at Canterbury Park. Bellicosity ships in from Sportsman's Park to try the six-furlong race and rates a slight edge. Owned by Sam Villardito and trained by Jimmy Divito, Bellicosity has come to hand this season with two daylight victories in Chicago after going winless in six starts at 2. Bellicosity exits an optional claiming race for 3-year-olds; his typical opening-quarter split would make him the pacesetter in the St. Paul. Dean Kutz has been named to ride.

MUSKEGON, Mich. - Secret Romeo, twice a seasonal champion at Great Lakes Downs, heads a field of 10 runners, including a stable coupling, in the $45,000 Wolverine Stakes on Saturday evening. The Wolverine, at six furlongs, will be the eighth race on the 10-race card.

NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - It looks like a mad dash for second money in the $40,000 Brent's Princess Stakes at Thistledown on Saturday, as Lady Cherie, who won four stakes last season, will make her seasonal debut against six Ohio-bred fillies and mares.

Nancy Alberts may be a newcomer to the national stage, but she is quickly making up for lost time. Alberts nearly scored an upset in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday with 45-1 shot Magic Weisner, the gelding she bred, owns, and trains, even gallops. And now that Alberts has decided to run Magic Weisner back in the June 8 Belmont Stakes, she will be making a rare trip outside her Maryland base.

ELMONT, N.Y. - You can tell by the big grin on his face that trainer Howard Zucker is enjoying his homecoming as he prepares Crafty C. T. for Monday's $750,000 Metropolitan Mile Handicap at Belmont Park.

Zucker, 54, who has lived in California for the past 20 years, grew up in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. He occasionally visits his sister in Long Island, but it has been many years since Zucker visited Belmont Park, where he first began working in the 1970's as a hotwalker and groom for, among others, trainers T. J. Kelly and George Poole.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Allen Jerkens shoots for his fourth Peter Pan win on Saturday at Belmont Park with Puzzlement, an improving colt who could earn a berth in the $1 million Belmont Stakes on June 8 with a good performance.

The $200,000 Peter Pan, a Grade 2 race, could yield a few starters for the Belmont Stakes, where War Emblem will make his bid to become racing's first Triple Crown winner since 1978.

ELMONT, N.Y. - There are only five horses entered in Friday's $54,000 allowance feature at Belmont Park, but handicappers looking for a "singleton" in multi-race exotics may be forced to look elsewhere.

This competitive six-furlong sprint, which is carded as the eighth race, is for older fillies and mares who are non-winners of $5,805 three times other than maiden, claiming, starter, or restricted since last Sept. 1. From the rail out, a case can reasonably be made for any among them: Belle Artiste, Grandma Lu, Maddie May, Honey Eyed, and Crescent Coast.