BY BROCK SHERIDAN

A winner of four of his last five including the Grade 3 Bold Ruler during the Belmont at Big A meet in November, Florida-bred millionaire Damon's Mound returns to New York for Saturday's $400,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt at Saratoga Race Course.

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Florida-breds My Miss Mo and Majestic Lucia, first and fourth respectively in the Grade 2 George E. Mitchell Black Eyed Susan at Laurel Park in June, are set for a rematch Saturday in the $150,000 Monmouth Oaks (G3) for 3-year-old fillies racing a mile-and-a-sixteenth at Monmouth Park.

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

A winner of two of her three career races with excuses in her only loss, Discovery Racing, Goldie Stable and Tom McCrocklin's Empty Handed makes her first start on grass and black-type initiation in the CAN$175,000 Ontario Colleen (Grade 3) for 3-year-old fillies at Woodbine Saturday.

BY CYNTHIA MCFARLAND

It's a common assumption that someone who chooses a career in the Thoroughbred industry grew up with horses. That was definitely not the case with Tom McCrocklin.