Apprentice Tiffani Brookers decision to make the trip from the Sunshine Coast to Brisbane one day a week is starting to pay major dividends.Brooker has burst into the limelight and is set to take advantage of a shortage of three-kilogram claiming apprentices in the metropolitan area.Several senior apprentices will also come out of their time next month.Brooker is now second on the metropolitan apprentices premiership behind Josh Oliver who is listed to come out of his time at the end of next month.Brooker is apprenticed to Stuart Kendrick at Caloundra and rides work there most of the week.But she also rides work at Eagle Farm each Thursday for some of the leading trainers including Robert Heathcote, Liam Birchley and Brian Smith.Brooker had her first race ride for Birchley on Saturday and won on Lady Jetsetter at Doomben.She recently won an open handicap on Saluter for Heathcote and a race at Eagle Farm on Knowing Frank for Smith.There are some opportunities around if you are willing to work, Brooker said.I ride work on Thursdays in Brisbane and the trainers have been repaying me.Birchley was full of praise for Brooker.She has ridden plenty of winners and there arent many three-kilo claimers around at the moment. She will get more chances with me, he said.Lady Jetsetter is a Doomben short-course specialist having won four races at the track all at 1000m.Emre Can Jersey . 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. Mattia De Sciglio Jersey .1 million pounds ($61.2 million) on Saturday, giving the beleaguered English Premier League champions a major lift. http://www.juventusfcpro.com/Kids-Sami-Khedira-Jersey/ .C. -- When North Carolina freshman Ryan Switzer reported to training camp in August he was a little miffed to learn he was third on the depth chart at punt returner. Mario Mandzukic Juventus Jersey . Brandon Morrow allowed five runs on six hits over three innings. He struck out two, walked one and hit a batter. Edwin Encarnacion had a two-out, bases loaded two-RBI double in the third inning. Blank Juventus Jersey . Manuel was offered a position the day he was fired. He accepted earlier this week and the team made the announcement Friday.Top-seeded Italians Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci will face each other in the Italiacom Open final after winning their semifinals on Saturday. No. 1-seeded Errani, who won this tournament in 2008 and 2012, recovered from 3-1 down in the second set to beat fourth-seeded Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4. Vinci struggled past Spaniard Estrella Cabeza Candela 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 to reach her first Palermo final.dddddddddddd. The No. 2 seed started badly, but reacted well to cruise through the second set. The breakthrough came in the fifth game of the final set, when Vinci broke to love following a double fault from Candela. Vinci went on to win the following three games and the match. ' ' '