VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Bearrock N Roll had a hard time keeping up in a quickly run sprint in his last start but looks like the one to beat in a $17,500 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up going 1 1/16 miles that will serve as Wednesday’s seventh-race feature at Hastings. The first of eight races goes at 1:50 p.m. Pacific.

DEL MAR, Calif. – As Del Mar heads into the final seven days of a meeting that ends on Sept. 4, it continues to show gains for both overall handle and ontrack handle, and is almost even in ontrack attendance, all compared to its 2012 numbers.

Del Mar through Sunday – the end of the sixth week of racing – is averaging $12,775,374 per day in handle, an increase of 6.8 percent over last year. Del Mar handled $19.7 million on Sunday’s Pacific Classic card, one day after the track had to refund $1 million in wagers owing to a starting-gate malfunction in Saturday’s final race.

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DEL MAR, Calif. – High expectations turned to reality when Sunday Rules won a maiden special weight race for California-bred 2-year-old fillies at Del Mar in her debut Aug. 3.

“She flew around the track,” trainer Mike Mitchell said. “She blew us away. It was not a surprise, but it made me very happy.”

Calder Race Course in Miami will cut overnight purses by 12 percent beginning Aug. 30 because of a drop in business due to head-to-head competition with nearby Gulfstream Park and a loss of revenue from simulcast fees, the track announced Sunday.

Take your pick in a $12,500 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up that will serve as the feature race at Northlands Park on Wednesday. The one-mile race goes as the seventh race, and it is hard to take a firm stand on any of the nine horses entered. Post time for the first of eight races is 6 p.m. Mountain.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The fields for the Halton and Elgin, two of the four $125,000 yearling sales stakes for 3-year-olds and up here Wednesday evening, will not be finalized until the scratches are in. Pender Harbour, Good Better Best, Aldous Snow, and Renegade Man all have been cross-entered in the two stakes, with the Halton at one mile on turf and the Elgin a 1 1/16-mile Polytrack race.

And with the races having been drawn last Friday, their connections will have had plenty of time to ponder their preferences.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Six stakes for graduates of local yearling sales are on tap Wednesday at Woodbine as a prelude to the Canadian premier yearling sale at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion on Sept. 3 and Sept. 7. Billed as Canadian Millions Sales Stakes Day, the races will be broadcast on Sportsnet ONE from 7-10 p.m. Eastern.

The two 6 1/2-furlong stakes for 2-year-olds are worth $200,000 apiece. Go Greeley should be favored in the Simcoe for colts and geldings, and On Rainbow Bridge is the one to knock off in the Muskoka for fillies.

A Thousand Aces ($17.80), a 3-year-old gelding claimed for $4,000 at Sacramento, outdueled Tiger Cat in the lane to win the $30,550 C.J. Hindley Humboldt County Marathon on Sunday at Ferndale.

A Thousand Ace’s victory denied trainer Quinn Howey an almost-perfect Humboldt County Fair meeting. Howey set a record with 16 wins, but the win he wanted most in the Marathon eluded him. He saddled three runners, Tiger Cat, odds-on favorite Graeme Crackerjack, and Surfer Dave, who finished second, third, and fourth.

Chu and You scored a front-running, 2 1/2-length victory in the $49,500 Barbara Shinpoch Stakes at Emerald Downs on Sunday night to remain unbeaten in three career starts and get her second stakes win.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The track was considered his Kryptonite, he needed a last-second replacement rider for a replacement rider, and 11 others were signed up to get him, some seemingly with the speed to make it a challenge. But there was one thing Game On Dude had that the others in the Pacific Classic did not: He was the best horse – by far.