ETOBICOKE, Ontario - For the first time since its inception in 1984, the Breeders' Cup telecast will not be available on regular cable television in Canada. The Sports Network, which gained the Canadian rights to the Breeders' Cup when ESPN took over south of the border, will air the program on its high-definition channel.

To receive TSN HD, a customer must have a high-definition-capable television set, an HD cable box or satellite receiver, and a subscription to the TSN HD service, usually through a multiple HD channel package.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – High winds forced the cancellation of racing last Sunday at Woodbine, and the rescheduling of the two stakes from that card has spiced up Thursday’s 10-race program.

The $125,000 Bunty Lawless and the $100,000 Labeeb were both scheduled for a mile on the grass, but have been switched to a mile and 70 yards on the Polytrack, which has changed the complexion of both races.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - As good as Bright One was in romping to victory in three straight races, including the $750,000 West Virginia Derby, that's how bad he was in losing the Indiana Derby on Oct. 7 at Hoosier Park.

Trainer Dale Romans said he has no idea why Bright One, a 3-year-old colt, suddenly went from a budding superstar to just another also-ran when he finished seventh in the Indiana Derby.

"We sure couldn't find a legitimate excuse for him that night," said Romans. "I was as stunned as anybody."

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hollywood Park-based Texcess someday may actually race on the Cushion Track surface over which he trained through the fall, but not yet. Winner of the $250,000 California Cup Classic on Saturday at Santa Anita, Texcess will skip the Hollywood Park fall meet and aim for the $1 million Sunshine Millions Classic in January at Gulfstream Park.

"He needs a lot of time between races," trainer Mike Mitchell said Tuesday.

There would be a touch of irony if Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens's Breeders' Cup frustrations were ended Saturday by War Front, a horse who has been through a successful albeit frustrating year of his own.

Jerkens has yet to win a Breeders' Cup race in nine tries. He came closest last year when Society Selection finished second at Belmont Park in the Distaff. Jerkens has had nothing but bad luck when shipping out of town for the Breeders' Cup, having yet to hit the board in seven tries on the road.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Boboman finished third, then he finished third again. Jockey Alex Solis was not discouraged.

"We always thought he was a nice horse, but the races at Del Mar were too short," he said.

Besides, Boboman had been off 16 months. There was no rush for trainer Richard Mandella to crank him up, so Solis rode patiently in races where the speed stuck.

"They were going 21 and 44, and kept going," he said. "[Boboman] was always making up ground."

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Thursday is the calm before a storm of activity at Aqueduct, where 11 stakes will be run in the next three days. Last Sunday's Nashua and Tempted, a pair of Grade 3, $100,000 stakes at a mile for 2-year-olds, drew 11 combined entrants before being postponed by dangerous winds. They were rescheduled for Friday and re-opened to all original nominees, and may pick up additional starters.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - When Jon Court rides at Churchill Downs on Saturday in the Breeders' Cup, it will mark a homecoming of sorts for the 45-year-old Southern California-based rider. Although originally from Florida, his base for many years was Kentucky, where he won multiple riding titles at Ellis Park, Kentucky Downs, and Turfway Park.

But in the months after winning the $2.33 million Japan Cup Dirt aboard Fleetstreet Dancer in November of 2003, he made the decision to shift his tack out West, leaving behind his roots in Louisville and in south Florida.

Keeneland Race Course has released the final figures for the 17-day fall meet that ended Saturday with new records in all-sources mutuel handle and ontrack attendance.

Gross all-sources handle was $140,408,982, easily surpassing the former record of $126 million set at the 2003 fall meet. The average daily handle of $8,259,352 was up 12 percent over what the track handled at its 2005 fall meet.

Attendance totaled 233,218, narrowly surpassing attendance recorded at 17-day fall meets in 2003 (232,499) and 2005 (232,429). The daily average was 13,718.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - There will be no more turf racing here at Woodbine this season.

Although the race office had hoped to offer one turf race each day this Thursday through Sunday before putting the course under wraps, that plan was scrapped because of heavy recent rainfall.

"It's not safe anymore," said Steve Lym, Woodbine's racing secretary.

Four stakes races were scheduled over the turf course here last weekend.

On Saturday, both the Chief Bearhart and the River Memories were run on the main track.