WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Trainer Chad Torvell swept both divisions of the C.T.H.S Sales Stakes with What Four and Goin N Style. On Saturday he has entered both horses in the Buffalo Stakes here at Assiniboia Downs.
The Buffalo, a one-mile race for 2-year-olds bred in Manitoba, will carry a purse of $35,000 and attracted a field of 10.
What Four enters the Buffalo with a two-race win streak, having defeated a maiden special weight field Aug. 17 prior to winning the fillies division of the Sept. 3 Sales. Tim Gardiner has the mount.
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan - Rob and Jack McDonald's stalwart older runner, Beau Ring, will face just three rivals when he goes in search of his third consecutive stakes win in the $6,000 Finale Handicap.
The 1 1/16-mile Finale is one of two stakes on the card, along with the $5,000 Captain Stanley Harrison Handicap for 3-year old fillies. Beau Ring, a 4-year-old who was a provincial champion in his first two campaigns, won his last two starts, the Fred Mendel Memorial Handicap and the Toon's Mile, by a combined total of 13 lengths.
POMONA, Calif. - Racing lurches onward Friday at Fairplex Park, where the Los Angeles County Fair race meet continues with an unexpected stakes doubleheader, a 12-race card, and an early 12:30 first post that will be in effect through the remainder of the meet.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario-Waltzin' Storm will seek his fourth straight victory while stepping up in class in Friday's Woodbine headliner. A field of 10 will line up in the $80,000 optional claimer, which will be contested at seven furlongs on the grass.
Waltzin' Storm, a 3-year-old Storm Creek colt, first showed promise when he finished a close second while beating Strut the Stage here last September in the Grade 2 Summer Stakes. He remained a maiden after his juvenile campaign, though, and was a beaten favorite in his first two turf outings this year, at Pimlico and Monmouth Park.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Win City, last seen winning the Prince of Wales at Fort Erie July 22, will return to action at Woodbine in Saturday's Grade 3 Colonel R.S. McLaughlin Handicap.
Win City, who won his fourth stakes of the season in the Wales, tuned up for the $107,200, 1 1/8-mile McLaughlin with a five-furlong drill of 1:00.80 under regular rider Constant Montpellier here last Sunday.
"We wanted a little more out of him," said Tiller, noting that Win City's workouts generally are more leisurely. "If you don't leave the pole running with him, he doesn't work fast.
AUBURN, Wash. - Two-year-olds will again be in the spotlight on Thursday, when Emerald Downs launches into five straight days of racing that will bring its 91-day meeting to a conclusion.
Three 2-year-old races, including the six-furlong feature for $16,000 fillies who have never won twice, will grace Thursday's nine-race card. That will bring the total for the meeting to 115, easily the most ever offered at Emerald Downs.
"Our 2-year-old program has been one of the real bright spots of the 2001 season," noted director of racing Grant Holcomb.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Madison Davis, who showed promise in three Northern California starts, returns from an unsuccessful sojourn to Del Mar to head a field of five 3-year-old fillies in the $34,000 allowance feature at six furlongs at Bay Meadows Thursday.
Madison Davis made her debut at Bay Meadows in May, zipping to a four-length victory over straight maidens after dueling to the stretch. Brought back in an allowance race, she again dueled early, then drew away to win by 2 1/2 lengths.