SHAKOPEE, Minn. - Run With Joy lived up to her advance billing with a front-running two-length victory in the $60,000 Minnesota Oaks at Canterbury Park on Saturday.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - One of the most important weeks in Northern California racing begins Wednesday at the Sonoma County Fair.

Racing resumes for an unprecedented third week, and will run without the attractions of the fair itself. The Sonoma County Fair closed Monday.

With the prospect of Bay Meadows closing perhaps as early as 2009, the Sonoma County Fair is a prime venue to assume some of the open dates, and racing for a week without a fair will be sort of an early dry run.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Sunday's $150,000 Seagram Cup here at Woodbine was billed as a showdown between True Metropolitan and Palladio.

True Metropolitan was coming off a victory in the 1 1/4-mile Dominion Day, where Palladio finished third.

That finish was a reversal of their previous encounter, in which Palladio had won the 1 1/16-mile Eclipse with True Metropolitan taking home the show money.

True Metropolitan was the 4-5 favorite in the 1 1/16-mile Seagram, with Palladio next at 9-5.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N Y - It was business as usual at Saratoga on Monday morning for Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, who galloped a mile over the main track just 13 hours after posting a game victory over C P West in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes.

Street Sense regularly trains the day after he runs. He followed the same routine the morning after winning the Derby.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - After watching Americanus forge clear of the field at midstretch of Monday's $150,000 Amsterdam Stakes at Saratoga and with time running out for his 2-1 favorite, Most Distinguished, trainer Nick Zito thought to himself, "Not another second."

But after finishing second in two graded stakes earlier in the weekend and 11 times overall this season, Zito's fears were allayed when Most Distinguished dug in and ran down Americanus to post a one-length victory in the Grade 2 Amsterdam.

Lone Star Park experienced a 13.5 percent drop in average daily handle on its races during its 67-date meet that closed Sunday, with the decline at least partly attributable to the 27 inches of rain that pounded the Grand Prairie, Texas, track.

Lone Star handled just under $1.7 million a day on its races, down from the approximately $1.9 million during the 66-date meet in 2006. The biggest decline came offtrack, where Lone Star handled $1.2 million a day versus $1.5 in 2006.

Despite all the rain, average daily attendance rose 2.5 percent, to 7,100.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Mike Fox and Alezzandro, winners of the first two legs of the Canadian Triple Crown, both worked over Woodbine's main turf course on Sunday morning in preparation for the $500,000 Breeders' Stakes.

The Breeders', a 1 1/2-mile turf race for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds that concludes the Triple Crown series, will be run here Sunday with a field of 12 expected.

The traffic cones were well out and the turf was firm as Mike Fox breezed five furlongs in 1:04.40 under jockey Emma Wilson and Alezzandro breezed six furlongs in 1:16.60 under Todd Kabel.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Street Sense was victorious in his comeback on Sunday in the Jim Dandy at Saratoga, the race targeted all along by trainer Carl Nafzger.

Monmouth Park officials had clung to the slim hope that extremely poor weather at Saratoga, would detour the Kentucky Derby winner their way for the $1 million Haskell Invitational for 3-year-olds on Sunday.

As fate would have it, Street Sense enjoyed a fast track while the Jersey Shore was deluged that afternoon by a heavy downpour.

Lewis Michael's romp Saturday in the Grade 2 Washington Park Handicap at Arlington Park prompted trainer Wayne Catalano to call the effort the colt's "best race ever, comparable to nothing." He earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 105.

Lewis Michael, the odds-on favorite, drew off to win the 1 3/16-mile Washington Park Cap by nearly five lengths. A 4-year-old Rahy colt bred and owned by Frank Calabrese, Lewis Michael registered his first graded win in the $300,000 Washington Park, marking his sixth victory from 18 starts.

DEL MAR, Calif. -- A parade of longshots on Sunday at Del Mar has produced a one-day carryover of $212,528 into the pick six on Monday's card.

The Monday program begins at 2 p.m. Pacific time, with the pick six beginning with the third race, at approximately 3 p.m.

Form was so difficult to find on Sunday that not one ticket was alive heading into the day's final race.

Monday's pick six has several small fields. Three of the races have fields of seven runners, and another has only eight runners.