DEL MAR, Calif. - Joe Torre, the manager of the New York Yankees, has bought a share in Cellamare, who will make her U.S. debut in Saturday's $150,000 San Clemente Handicap at Del Mar.

Torre will share ownership of the French import with Terry Lanni and Bernie Schiappa. Torre and Schiappa met during a golf tournament in Hawaii.

"He has a love for horses just like I do," Schiappa said. "That's how it got started."

Torre and Yankees coach Don Zimmer attended the races at Del Mar on Monday, an off day for the Yankees, who defeated the Anaheim Angels on Tuesday.

Fairfields Stud in Australia has privately purchased Grade 3 winner Fighting Falcon, who will stand in Australia during the 2003 Southern hemisphere season. A 7-year-old Manila-Lovlier Linda horse, Fighting Falcon was trained by Wallace Dollase and won the Cinema Handicap and two other stakes for a career record of 21-5-4-3 and $494,175 in earnings. . . . Popular Coolmore stallion Thunder Gulch is not on that global sire operation's Australian roster for 2003 and will take a break from shuttling, Coolmore has told Thoroughbred Breeders Australia.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kona Gold, whose retirement from racing was announced Sunday, could end up at the Kentucky Horse Park alongside racing greats John Henry and Cigar.

The Kentucky Horse Park, which spotlights those champions in its daily Hall of Champions show, is on the list of possible destinations for Kona Gold, a 9-year-old Java Gold gelding.

"There's been a lot of discussion about it and a lot of interest, but it is still in the discussion stage," said the park's executive director, John Nicholson. "I think we'll know more once Saratoga is over."

The Pennsylvania Senate broke for the summer late Monday without addressing legislation that would legalize slots at racetracks, dimming the chances that a bill expanding gambling at tracks will be passed this year.

Both the Pennsylvania House and Senate have passed separate bills legalizing slots at tracks, but members of the leadership of both bodies disagree on what form expanded gambling should take. The leaders have said they do not believe that legislators and Gov. Ed Rendell, a proponent of slots at tracks, will be able to agree on a bill this year.

Television Games Network, the 24-hour wagering and broadcast station, had record handle of $61 million in the second quarter of 2003, the company announced Tuesday.

The handle total was the highest recorded in any quarter by the network, which reaches 16 million households via cable and satellite. TVG also had a record one-day handle of $4 million on May 3, the day of the Kentucky Derby, the company said.

Handle was up 27 percent compared to the second quarter of 2002.

* An article about Saratoga in Monday's and Tuesday's editions misstated the identity of the horse who broke in a tangle in Saturday's opening race and led to a refund of wagers after the horse was declared a nonstarter. The nonstarter was Tennessee Burbin, not Congress Park.

There will be no live racing on Mondays at Philadelphia Park through the month of August. Monday programs will resume Labor Day, Sept. 1. . . . The deadline for stall applications for the 30-day Woodlands mixed Thoroughbred-Quarter Horse fall meeting, to run Sept. 23 to Nov. 1, is Aug. 7. The track will run Tuesday through Saturday, with Thoroughbred stakes and handicaps having $30,000-added purses, a slight increase over last season.

"Seabiscuit," the $90 million movie based on a best-selling book about the 1930's-era Hall of Fame horse, took in an estimated $21.5 million in box-office receipts during its opening weekend.

"Seabiscuit" was the fifth-highest-grossing film of the week, well behind "Sky Kids 3D," which had $32.5 million in ticket sales, but close behind "Pirates of the Caribbean," "Bad Boys 2," and "Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2," which were all within $1 million in ticket sales.

NEW YORK - Empire Maker, a 3-year-old and winner of this year's Belmont Stakes, was made the 3.70-1 favorite over star older horse Mineshaft and others by Breeders' Cup Classic bettors last weekend.

A sum of $71,034 was bet on the Classic future wager, which opened on Friday and closed Sunday night. Mineshaft is the second choice at 5.20-1, followed by the field, at 9.90-1.

Three other Breeders' Cup races - the Turf, Distaff, and Sprint - were also offered for future bets. In total, the four races took in $160,759 in bets.

Special Ring sets record in Eddie Read

DEL MAR, Calif. - Two years ago in the Eddie Read Handicap, Special Ring bolted, ran off to a needless long lead, and tired to finish last. He was gelded before he ran again.

Since then, he had won 5 of 11 starts and had come tantalizingly close to winning a graded stakes. He waited until Sunday, though, in the 30th running of the Grade 1 Eddie Read, to run the race of his life.