Horse Racing News by Ron Gierkink

Windward Islands won his return from a 14-month layoff July 24 in the Grade 2 Nijinsky Stakes. The penalty he'll pay for that surprising score is high weight of 123 pounds in Sunday's Grade 2, $250,000 Sky Classic Stakes at Woodbine.

Sam-Son Farm and trainer Mark Frostad ran one-two in Saturday's Grade 2, $312,400 Nijinsky Stakes at Woodbine, with Windward Islands and Grand Adventure.

Magic Broomstick has been campaigned conservatively by Sam-Son Farm and trainer Mark Frostad, while going through her allowance conditions without much of a problem.

Not Bourbon's popular win in the 2008 Queen's Plate was certainly memorable for Roger Attfield, because it was his eighth triumph in Canada's best-known race, a milestone that put him in a tie for the trainer with the most Plate victories.

The speedy American shipper Get Stormy will put his five-race win streak on the line Sunday at Woodbine in the $300,000 King Edward, a Grade 2 turf stakes that has been shortened from its traditional distance of nine furlongs to a mile this year.

The U.S. shipper Embur's Song took Woodbine by storm May 22, when she won an allowance race in near track-record time, and she should be the prohibitive favorite Sunday in the 55th running of the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks.

Kentucky shipper Exhi dominated a quality field under Robby Albarado in the 55th running of the $159,300 Marine Stakes Saturday at Woodbine.

Jockey Jim McAleney and trainer Danny O'Callaghan teamed up to capture last Sunday's Jacques Cartier Stakes with the crack sprinter Hollywood Hit.

Grazettes Landing came from a stalking position under Patrick Husbands to land his first stakes Friday in the $102,400 Debut, the opening-day feature of the 167-day Woodbine meet.