ALBANY, Calif. - Although three-quarters of an inch of rain fell here Tuesday night, the new Tapeta surface at Golden Gate Fields was dry Wednesday morning as horses went about their work.

Trainer Bill Delia said the track looked about the same Wednesday morning as it did Tuesday, before the rain.

"I've talked to some of the riders that have worked horses, and they said track is very good," Delia said. "I'm very happy with it."

Trainer Gil Matos noted that his horses came back from their exercise clean, not splattered with mud.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - When Monashee leaves Hastings after she runs in, and presumably wins, the Grade 3 Ballerina Breeders' Cup on Saturday, she will have put together the best record ever compiled by a filly or mare based in British Columbia.

Finger Lakes canceled racing Tuesday after two of nine scheduled races because of poor track conditions caused by a sudden downpour. Racing was scheduled to resume Thursday.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Nevada Worrier, the winner of Monday's $81,110 Cavonnier Stakes at the Oak Tree at Santa Anita meeting, has finally figured out there is more to Thoroughbred racing than running down the stretch.

After failing to win four two-furlong races at Santa Anita and Bay Meadows in a four-week span in March and April, Nevada Worrier learned patience over the summer. Monday, in his eighth career start, he won his first stakes, and joined the list of contenders for the $125,000 California Cup Juvenile on Nov. 3.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two of the marquee horses headed for the Breeders' Cup Classic both had half-mile maintenance works 75 miles and an hour apart Tuesday morning when Curlin breezed in 51.60 seconds over the Polytrack surface at Keeneland and Street Sense went in 48.40 over a fast main track at Churchill Downs.

Both works were routine. Curlin worked at about 6:30 a.m. Eastern under the cover of darkness with Carmen Rosas up, while Street Sense went at his usual time of about 7:30 with regular rider Calvin Borel aboard.

Jim Danaher, the breeder, owner, and trainer of a multitude of horses with the word "humble" in their names, may have retired from racing in April, but he was well represented on the track this past weekend.

Horses bred by Danaher were in the Louisiana Downs entries all week, and on Saturday the colts Humble Cat and Humble Matt finished a respective second and fourth in the $45,000 Razorback Futurity at Louisiana Downs.

MIAMI - Silk Ridge will take center stage on Saturday's $1.6 million Festival of the Sun program as she attempts to become only the third filly to sweep her division in the 26-year history of the Florida Stallion Stakes.

Silk Ridge figures to be the odds-on favorite to add the $400,000 My Dear Girl Stakes to her previous stallion series wins in the Desert Vixen and Susan's Girl stakes. For good measure, the daughter of Eltish also dominated open company when making her two-turn debut in the mile-and-70-yard Brave Raj Stakes on Sept. 22.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Last Answer, who had been gearing up for a third try in the Canadian International, has been retired.

"He tore an inside branch suspensory," said Mike Keogh, who trained Last Answer for owner/breeder Gustav Schickedanz. "It would have happened Saturday, when he was galloping on the training track. I went in to feel his legs Sunday, before he was going to go and train, and that's when we noticed it.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Sail from Seattle has been a study in patience for Sam-Son Farm and trainer Mark Frostad.

On Sunday, that patience paid its first major dividend as Sail from Seattle, a 4-year-old colt who was making his fifth career start, became a stakes winner in the Mt. Sassafras here at Woodbine.

The $75,000 Mt. Sassafras, a seven-furlong overnight stakes for Ontario foals, offered neither the purse nor prestige of many stakes here, but its field of four included the top active local sprinters.

Mr Chivato to You earned an invitation to the $1 million Champion of Champions with his neck victory Saturday in the Grade 1, $100,000 Refrigerator Handicap at Lone Star Park.

Mr Chivato to You ($20.60) broke on top in the 440-yard Refrigerator and held off favorite Bullions N Garters, going the distance in 22.15 seconds.