ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Quiet Resolve, Canada's Horse of the Year in 2000 and a Grade 1 winner of $2.3 million, was in guarded condition at the University of Guelph's veterinary clinic Friday after undergoing surgery to repair a fractured hind ankle.

Trainer Mark Frostad said Quiet Resolve suffered the career-ending injury when he pulled up from a routine gallop at Woodbine on Thursday morning.

Quiet Resolve, a 7-year-old gelding owned and bred by Sam-Son Farm, had been scheduled to make his final start of the season here in Sunday's Labeeb Stakes.

Great Lakes Downs, located in Muskegon, Mich., has been granted a 118-day meet from April 26 through Oct. 28 in 2003, almost exactly the same dates it raced this year. Great Lakes, Michigan's only all-Thoroughbred track, is owned by Frank Stronach's Magna Entertainment Corp.

An investment group headed by Stronach's son, Andy Stronach, withdrew its request for 2003 racing dates in Michigan. The group, known as EQTAH, had submitted a racetrack license application to the Michigan Office of Racing Commissioner but does not own a facility in the state.

Remington Park, another Magna Entertainment track, has asked the Oklahoma Racing Commission to reconsider the dates it was awarded for 2003. Remington wants to add Thoroughbred racing to its 20-day mixed meet and has proposed adding three dates to that season for a 23-date meet in August and September, as well as postponing the start of its 50-day Thoroughbred meet a week to Sept. 11.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - XpressBet, a national account wagering system operated by Magna Entertainment, began accepting bets on Lone Star Park races Friday. Lone Star is the latest track to be purchased by Magna in a deal that closed

Oct. 23.

Television Games Network has been taking account wagers on Lone Star races since the network was launched in 1999, but when the track's current Quarter Horse meet ends on Nov. 30, TVG will no longer be allowed to accept bets on Lone Star races.

Thoroughbred racing returns to Lone Star in April.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Over the last 18 months, I Love Silver has chased Point Given, Mizzen Mast, and Disturbingthepeace when all were in the best form of their careers.

For once, trainer Dean Greenman would like to see I Love Silver start in a stakes without facing a top-class runner. The opportunity could come in Sunday's $100,000 Morvich Handicap at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Garrett Gomez, who has not ridden since Oct. 20, said on Friday that he is taking November off for personal reasons and plans to return to riding at Hollywood Park in December.

Gomez, who has won nine races from 56 mounts at the current Oak Tree meeting, said he plans to spend time with his family. He declined to discuss the reason for his absence.

"It's more important to be with my family right now than work," Gomez said. "I could go back this week, but I'm not going to. My family gets turned down a lot."

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Last year, Todd Pletcher won the Grade 3 Tempted with the favorite, Smok'n Frolic. This year Pletcher again has the Tempted favorite, Chimichurri.

Chimichurri is among eight 2-year-old fillies entered in the $100,000-added Tempted, a mile dirt race Sunday at Aqueduct.

Chimichurri, a daughter of hot freshman sire Elusive Quality, has won 2 of 4 starts, scoring easy victories in a maiden at Saratoga and the Jersey Jumper Stakes at The Meadowlands.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Rob O'Connor II was enduring a nightmare of a year until he found blessed relief. O'Connor finally won a horse race, his first of the year from 32 starters, granting him a reprieve from what he called "a horrible streak."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The E.P. Taylor turf course, the scene of some of Woodbine's greatest moments, will go into hibernation following Sunday's program.

But first there is the not-so-small matter of a Sunday stakes doubleheader, the Labeeb and River Memories, to give the course a rousing send-off.

Both the Labeeb, for 3-year-olds and upward, and the River Memories, for fillies and mares, are overnight stakes contested over one mile. Both have proved to be very popular, attracting the maximum 14 entrants, plus three horses on the also-eligible list for the Labeeb.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - All eyes will be on Mulrainy at Woodbine on Sunday, when she stakes her claim for the Sovereign Award as this year's champion 3-year-old filly in the $165,750 Jammed Lovely Stakes.

Mulrainy will try to notch her third stakes of the year in the seven-furlong race, which has lured eight other Canadian-breds. There are also two one-mile grass stakes on the 10-race card, the Labeeb and River Memories.