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ETOBICOKE, Ontario -- Strut the Course will return from a layoff to defend her title in Saturdays Grade 2, $300,000 Canadian Stakes over about 1-1/8 miles on Woodbines turf course. The winner of the Canadian will earn a fees-paid berth in the Breeders Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 5.Strut the Course most recently was second to Lexie Lou in the Grade 2 Dance Smartly Stakes on July 3. Trainer Barb Minshall said Strut the Course missed training time after the Dance Smartly due to an illness.After the last race, she got really anemic, she said. Thats why we missed a couple of races that we might have liked to have gone in. It took her a while to come around. Shes back on track now.Minshall said Strut the Course has been training well since getting over her illness and recently breezed with Stacked Deck, who won the Ontario Jockey Club Stakes last Sunday with a 100 Beyer Speed Figure.Minshall said Strut the Course likely will run in the Canadian, the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes on Oct. 16, and the Grade 3 Maple Leaf Stakes on Nov. 5 before being entered in the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.Key ContendersStrut the Course, by Strut the Stage Last 3 Beyers: 89-92-90Strut the Course won this race last year over a yielding turf course with a 97 Beyer. Minshall said she was not concerned that rain is in the forecast for Saturday.A little rain wouldnt hurt my feelings at all, she said.Dacita, by Scat Daddy Last 3 Beyers: 101-97-93She carries a two-race win streak into this spot after rallying strongly from off the pace to win the Grade 1 Diana Stakes at Saratoga on July 23.Irad Ortiz Jr. will travel up from New York to retain the mount for trainer Chad Brown.Rainha Da Bateria, by Broken Vow Last 3 Beyers: 101-95-95Like Dacita, she rallied from off the pace in the Diana but just missed after she was bumped in deep stretch.Shes also trained by Brown, who is just 1 for 17 in graded stakes at Woodbine over the past five years, with a return on investment of $0.50.Steip Amach, by Vocalised No BeyersShell cut back in distance after running third in the Group 1 Darley Prix Jean Romanet over 1-1/4 miles at Deauville in France on Aug. 21. Prior to that, she was third in another Group 1 event over a mile. Adidas Eqt Schweiz . Ouellette, from Montreal, already has three Olympic gold medals since joining the team in 1999. Nmd Schweiz Outlet . -- The Portland Timbers and Real Salt Lake played to a 0-0 tie Saturday night that left the top of the Western Conference standings unchanged. http://www.nmdschweizkaufen.ch/tubular-outlet.html .C. Lions has come to an end. Banks told TSN on Jan 2 that he had no interest in playing out the option year of his contract with the Lions in 2014, and he again made that clear in a conversation with Lions GM Wally Buono last week. Nmd Schuhe Online . Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, announced Wednesday that the team would assign Swedish forward Elias Lindholm to his nations team for the upcoming tournament. Adidas Nmd Günstig Ebay . Blackwood, 28, has played the last three seasons in the San Diego Padres system, including the past two summers with Class AA San Antonio of the Texas League. VANCOUVER -- The Vancouver Canucks added some depth on the first day of free agency, signing forward Brad Richardson and defenceman Yannick Weber. Richardson has 43 goals and 62 assists in 391 career games with Colorado and Los Angeles. He was a member of the Kings Stanley Cup-winning team in the 2011-12 season. He had a goal and five assists on 16 games for the Kings last season. Richardson welcomed the chance to play in Vancouver after a season in which he found himself at times a healthy scratch in Los Angeles. "To be honest I was super-frustrated," he told a media conference call. "It was really tough. They didnt give me a whole lot of feedback on why I wasnt playing either which was tough. "At the end of the year, it turned around. I got in there and started plaaying and played well.dddddddddddd" He has played all three forwards positions but says the Canucks want him to play his preferred centre role. "They made me feel like they really wanted me," he said of the Canucks. Richardson, who expects to play on Vancouvers third line, says his experience playing against the Canucks in the playoffs had shown him he was joining a tough team to play against. "Great goaltending, great forwards, great D. Theyve got everything," he said. Weber spent the last five seasons with the Montreal Canadiens organization. The Swiss blue-liner has five goals and 27 assists in 115 games with the Habs. He had two assists in six games last season. The Canucks also signed minor-league defencemen Jeremie Blain and Alex Biega. ' ' '