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A strong belief in Thelittleracketeers bloodlines landed her back with the Esplin family, two years after they sold her to Victorian trainer Peter Moody.The family bred Thelittleracketeer and her stakes-winning half-brother Office Bearer who was trained by Moody and then Jason Coyle before being retired to stud.Canberra trainer Matthew Dale said the Esplins sold Thelittleracketeer to Moody as a yearling before buying her back at a tried horse sale.Theyre big believers of the family, Dale said.They were keen to get her back into their system and give her another go.She has thrived since arriving with Dale, putting together three wins from four starts including a convincing Highway Handicap (1100m) victory at Rosehill on November 19.She was a mare carrying the top weight and she was quite dominant there, Dale said.While she is set for just her 10th race in Saturdays Tab.com.au Sprint (1200m) at Rosehill, the five-year-old mare has been around long enough to be ridden competitively by retired jockeys Jimmy Cassidy and Dale Smith.She won a city maiden at her first start as a two-year-old but even after that she showed glimpses of city form and then lost her way a little bit, Dale said.Since weve had her shes had four starts for three wins and got her confidence back which is what I think she was lacking.Dale admits barrier 12 presents a challenge as she steps up in grade but he is looking forward to seeing where she fits in the scheme of metropolitan racing.Thelittleracketeer gave Dale his fifth Highway win which was the equal top score in the races for country-trained horses until Murwillumbahs Matthew Dunn racked up his sixth last Saturday.Dale has two chances to get back on level terms with Falco and Backless in the 1400m handicap.Backless gets into the race with 51kgs after apprentice James Innes claim.The three-year-old filly will be having her second start after sitting wide and winning an open age fillies and mares maiden at Wagga Wagga on November 21.Dale says the extra distance will suit her while Falco, to carry 58kg after Nick Heywoods allowance, will be wearing blinkers for the first time.They have chalk and cheese profiles but both are genuine chances, Dale said. 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Ellis hit two-run homers and the NL West champion Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres 4-0 Saturday night. VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash hit film Field of Dreams, has died. He was 81.His literary agent Carolyn Swayze said in a statement that Kinsellas death on Friday in Hope, British Columbia was doctor-assisted. Details about his health were not disclosed. Assisted deaths became legal in Canada in June.In the 1982 novel Shoeless Joe, a farmer hears a voice telling him to build a baseball diamond in his corn fields. When he does, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other baseball players of yesteryear come to play. It became the blueprint for the 1989 Oscar-nominated movie, which starred Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Ray Liotta.Key turns of phrases in Kinsellas book -- If you build it, they will come and Go the distance -- have taken their place in literatures lexicon and among Hollywoods most memorable movie lines.Kinsella, a bona fide baseball junkie, loved the movie and said he had tears in his eyes when he first saw it.In 2011 the Canadian baseball Hall of Fame awarded him the Jack Graney Award for a significant contribution to the game of baseball in Canada.I wrote it 30 years ago, and the fact that people are still discovering it makes me proud. It looks like it will stand the test of time, Kinsella said at the time.Scott Crawford, director of operations at the Canadian hall, said he was saddened to learn of the authors death.His work has touched the lives of thousands of baseball fans across Canada and around the world, Crawford said in a statement. His most famous book was the classic `Shoeless Joe, which inspired one of my favorite movies, `Field of Dreams.Kinsella brought back to life Moonlight Graham, who played one major league baseball game but never got to bat. The author noticed Grahams name while thumbing through the Baaseball Encyclopedia he had received as a Christmas gift from his father-in-law.ddddddddddddI found this entry for Moonlight Graham. How could anyone come up with that nickname? He played one game but did not get to bat. I was intrigued, and I made a note that I intended to write something about him, Kinsella told The Associated Press in 2005 on the 100th anniversary of the only game Graham played in the majors.Much of Kinsellas work touched on baseball. He published almost 30 books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry and won the Order of Canada, one of the countrys highest honors.William Patrick Kinsella was born in Edmonton, Alberta. His father John had played minor league baseball, and the young Kinsella fell for the game playing with friends on sandlots in Edmonton.He began writing as a child, winning a YMCA contest at age 14.Kinsella took writing courses at the University of Victoria in 1970, receiving his bachelor of arts in creative writing in 1974. In 1978 he earned a master of fine arts in English through the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa.He had been an English professor at the University of Calgary.Vancouver Writers Festival founder Alma Lee said Kinsella was a private man with a passion for baseball.He was a dedicated story-teller, performer, curmudgeon, an irascible and difficult man, Swayze said in a statement. His fiction has made people laugh, cry, and think for decades and will do so for decades to come.Kinsella was married three times. He is survived by two daughters, who the literary agency says cared for him in his final years, and several grandchildren.Kinsella has asked there be no memorial service.----Gillies reported from Toronto. Ben Walker in New York contributed. ' ' '