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Philadelphia Park has canceled live racing on Mondays in August. The track cut the four days in order to avoid surpassing its limit of 220 racing dates for 2002. . . . Five of the nine 2-year-olds declared for the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin at Maisons-Laffitte in Paris are unbeaten, including raiders from Britain and Germany. Deportivo heads a two-pronged British challenge, while Fiepes Shuffle comes in off two brilliant victories in his native Germany.