ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – The Arlington Million field was reduced to seven and the race lost its likely pacesetter when Sudan was withdrawn from the field with a tendon injury.

Sudan, imported to the United States last year and the fourth-place finisher last month in the Man o’ War Stakes, arrived here Wednesday on a flight from New York, and galloped over Arlington’s Polytrack on Thursday, but his injury was diagnosed on Friday morning.

"He galloped on the track one day, came up with a tendon the next day," trainer Bobby Frankel said. "It’s brutal."

The assets of Bay Meadows, which will conduct racing for the last time on Aug. 17, will be auctioned off on Aug. 22-25, according to a release from Great American Group, the company conducting the auction.

Among the items to be sold are artwork, seating, television and radio equipment, stalls, and computers, as well as restaurant and maintenance equipment.

Bidders can register at .

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Fourth in the 2007 Arlington Million, Stream Cat is back for a second run in the prestigious turf race Saturday.

Among those watching him with keen interest here will be Bob Hurley, who is well along in the second career of his adult life.

Hurley, the former Duke University basketball star, is one of the partners who own Stream Cat, and if Stream Cat should follow through Saturday on his excellent victory here last month in the Arlington Handicap, it just might top Songandaprayer's 2001 Fountain of Youth victory as Hurley's best racing moment.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - After Eternal Star set a track record for seven furlongs winning the Don Levine Memorial Handicap at Philadelphia Park on June 28, trainer Michael Trombetta immediately started thinking about the Grade 1 Forego at Saratoga on Aug. 30.

As a means of getting to the Forego, Trombetta entered Eternal Star in Saturday's $100,000 James Marvin, one of four overnight stakes on Saturday's 11-race card at Saratoga.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The events of late summer and early fall 2007 continue to weigh heavily on trainer Mike Machowsky's mind.

Last year, Machowsky trained the 2-year-old Drill Down, who ran a game second to Georgie Boy in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity in September. But while training for a start in the Norfolk Stakes at Santa Anita later that month, Drill Down was severely injured in a workout and was euthanized.

"It was one of those freak things that happen," Machowsky said. "I'll never get over that."

Diggy Fresh's last two wins have come in the $100,000 Shiskabob at Louisiana Downs - one last weekend and the other in August 2006. The Shiskabob, at 1 1/16 miles on the turf, is the annual feature on Louisiana Downs Champions Day.

Diggy Fresh closed well for a head win in this year's edition, and earned his second-best Beyer Speed Figure, an 89. The race was his first for owner Robert Asaro and trainer Keith Bourgeois after being claimed for $16,000 at Louisiana Downs on July 6.

Santa Anita's new synthetic main track will consist primarily of Pro-Ride when an ongoing renovation is completed later this month, according to track president Ron Charles. The Santa Anita track will be the first Pro-Ride brand surface used for racing in North America.

Santa Anita on Wednesday began mixing its new surface, which consists of 14,500 tons of sand, polymer, and fibers, in a temporary plant in the track parking lot.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - The buzz at Arlington Park has focused on the pair of overseas Group 1 winners, Archipenko and Mount Nelson, that have shipped in for the Arlington Million, but it was a third European horse, Spirit One, who turned some heads here Thursday morning.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The last time Gail Cox visited the stakes winner's circle here at Woodbine, she was Gail Casselman.

The then-unattached Casselman won the Colin with Rights Reserved in 2002 and subsequently married fellow trainer Greg Cox.

After a brief run as Gail Casselman-Cox, she adopted the shortened surname and will be looking to looking to upset Sunday's Vandal with Silver Rocket.

EDMONTON, Alberta – Broken Hearted won the 1 1/16-mile Northlands Oaks on July 19, and she seeks her second straight stakes score at that distance in Saturday’s Sonoma at Northlands Park. Broken Hearted drew the rail as the 119-pound highweight in the Sonoma, which attracted just six 3-year-old fillies.

Despite offering the first $100,000 purse of the meet, the Sonoma failed to lure West Coast nominees Dancing Allstar (who is running in Saturday’s Duchess at Woodbine), Daymaker, or Heaven on Hold, and offers the locals an excellent chance at a rich payday.