An adviser to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has advised that the state sell Monmouth Park and convert the Meadowlands into an offtrack betting facility.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - A father and son shared the stakes spotlight here this past weekend as 60-year-old Sid Attard sent out Stunning Stag to capture Saturday's $171,000 Autumn and 29-year-old Paul Attard saddled Anne's Beauty for her victory in Sunday's $150,400 Glorious Song.
Stunning Stag, a 6-year-old gelding, was recording his second stakes score and was the 73rd winner in a stakes race for Sid Attard, who began his career in 1977.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Because two divisions of the New York Stallion Stakes failed to fill Sunday, the week starts with a stakes doubleheader at Aqueduct.

Juvenile divisions of the New York Stallion were combined and brought back Wednesday as the $100,000, six-furlong Great White Way (race 3), which goes with a field of eight, including two fillies. Later, 10 2-year-old fillies entered the $60,000, one-mile Swirlaway overnight stakes (race 8).

Uncle Mo, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, will spend a month on Jimmy Crupi’s New Castle Farm in Ocala. Fla., before joining trainer Todd Pletcher’s south Florida string at the Palm Meadows training center, his connections announced on Monday.

Pletcher said Monday that Uncle Mo was vanned from Churchill Downs to New Castle on Nov. 9, three days after he won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile by 4 1/4 lengths, capping a 3-for-3 season that will likely be rewarded with an Eclipse Award as North America’s best 2-year-old. Uncle Mo also won the Grade 1 Champagne at Belmont Park.

Gourmet Dinner shipped out of Miami on Monday morning headed for Louisiana, where he will run in the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Jackpot on Saturday. The 1 1/16-mile race for 2-year-olds is the centerpiece of the Delta Downs meet and will highlight a program of eight stakes worth $2.3 million. The card will be the richest run this year in Louisiana.

Trainer Billy Morey picked up career victory No. 999 last Wednesday with Positive Response, then later Wednesday missed No. 1,000 by a nose when favored Three Quarter Tout was upset by J.H. Commander.

Morey had only one horse entered last Thursday, and that horse, Sports Edition, came through to give Morey win No. 1,000. On Friday, he got No. 1,001 with Red Hot Charlotte.

Morey said he and the workers in his barn were excited as the milestone approached.

After being unable to come up with a 2010 calendar until January this year, Northern California’s racing interests already have a 2011 schedule in place. The 2011 calendar is similar to the 2010 one, except that Ferndale will not have a full week of racing to itself.

The tiny Humboldt County track opens Aug. 12 and will have two days of racing to itself next summer, and then Golden Gate Fields will open for a summer meet Aug. 19.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – When the Kentucky Derby is run next May, it will have been 20 years since Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito won his first with Strike the Gold. It’s far too early to tell if Zito will be able to celebrate by returning with a legitimate contender for the 137th Derby, but it would not seem a huge upset if a colt named Dialed In is here to represent him and longtime client Robert LaPenta.

After making her first three starts on the Golden Gate Tapeta surface, Seismic Speed may reveal her hole card in the fifth race there Wednesday. Seismic Speed makes her grass debut in the one-mile maiden special weight race for 2-year-old fillies, and as a daughter of a turf stakes winner, she is bred to excel on the surface.

Trainer Ben Root wouldn’t mind if lightning struck again in Wednesday’s $15,000 Dennis Dodge Memorial at Portland Meadows.

He sends out Shamundi, an Oct. 20 debut winner, against six rivals in the 5 1/2-furlong race for 2-year-olds. It’s the same pattern as last year, when he won the race with Smoken Sham, a debut winner who was also making his second start.

Root said the race holds significance for him beyond the purse and stakes prestige.