Average daily handle on the race cards at Colonial Downs in New Kent, Va., plummeted more than 30 percent compared with last year during the track's recently completed 40-day meet, according to figures provided by the track.

Average handle was $780,365 a day during the meet, compared with $1,118,734 during last year's 45-day meet, according to the track's figures. The decline was almost exclusively tied to a 35 percent drop in handle from off-site sources, where handle fell from $960,834 a day last year to $627,850 this year.

AUBURN, Wash. - After dozens of maiden races and a couple of restricted stakes, Emerald Downs enters the heart of its 2-year-old program next weekend when the $50,000 Angie C Stakes for fillies and the $50,000 Premio Esmeralda for colts and geldings will be contested on consecutive days.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Forever Together and her trainer, Jonathan Sheppard, were out at the Oklahoma training track seemingly forever on Wednesday morning.

The Eclipse Award-winning mare's final workout for a defense of her title in Saturday's Grade 1 Diana Handicap was delayed more than 20 minutes while the horse ambulance attended to, and ultimately vanned off, a member of trainer George Weaver's stable who had been injured during a workout over the Oklahoma turf course.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - The state's finest will gather at Louisiana Downs on Saturday for Louisiana Cup Day. Eight stakes events will showcase the best in statebreds and will be worth a cumulative $750,000. The 10-race program, which also includes a maiden special weight affair and a second-level allowance on the turf for Louisiana-breds, gets under way at 1:25 p.m. Central.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Though Charitable Man failed to live up to expectations in the Belmont Stakes, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin hasn't lost any faith in his 3-year-old colt.

In Saturday's Grade 2, $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga, McLaughlin hopes to see the same Charitable Man that was so impressive winning the Grade 2 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont in May.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Atomic Rain has been downgraded to "unlikely" for the $1.25 million Haskell Invitational on Sunday at Monmouth Park.

"He missed the last few days of training with a sore foot," said Rick Mettee, the New York-based assistant to Saeed bin Suroor for Godolphin Racing. "It looks unlikely that he will make the race."

Mettee said a final decision will be made Thursday morning, prior to the draw.

"If there is a chance he can go to the track, we may enter him and see how it looks," Mettee said.

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Safety and Integrity Alliance has added Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., to its list of fully accredited racetracks, the organization announced on Tuesday.

Monmouth received its accreditation after filing a written application, meeting with alliance officials, and having an on-site inspection, the alliance said. To be accredited through the voluntary program, tracks must comply with requirements issued by the alliance in a variety of areas considered to be important to safety.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Saratoga Sinner's stay on the Triple Crown trail was short-lived. A knee injury knocked him out of contention for the Kentucky Derby shortly after he won the Grade 3 Holy Bull at Gulfstream at the end of January.

Now fully recovered from surgery, Saratoga Sinner is eyeing the Travers Stakes on Aug. 29, and following a sharp workout here on Tuesday, he may just prep for it in Saturday's Grade 2, $500,000 Jim Dandy.

DEL MAR, Calif. - For much of the past five years, jockey Corey Nakatani has spent as much time in the doctor's office as at the racetrack - fractured vertebra, dislocated ankle, fractured collarbone, er, collarbones. Yet he has come back strong this summer at Del Mar, appears healthier than ever, and last weekend moved into second place all-time in stakes wins at Del Mar by guiding Global Hunter to victory in the Grade 1 Eddie Read Stakes.

Superior Storm will be putting her unbeaten record in statebred stakes on the line Saturday if she runs in the $100,000 Distaff at Louisiana Downs. The 1 1/16-mile turf race for fillies and mares is one of eight divisional stakes worth a cumulative $750,000 on the annual Louisiana Cup Day card.