LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It has been a little more than a year since Wild Fit wowed Breeders' Cup fans by finishing second with a stirring late run in the Juvenile Fillies at Belmont Park. Few could have predicted that Wild Fit would go winless in five races thereafter, but with the Grade 2 Chilukki Stakes on tap Thursday at Churchill Downs, the filly is still struggling to find the winner's circle.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Entries have begun to pick up this week at Bay Meadows with horses returning from the Big Fresno Fair, the end of the normal three-week racing cycle for horses that ran late in the Golden Gate Fields meeting, and the use of the turf course for sprints.

Thursday, a five-furlong turf race drew 17 entrants and was split into two races of nine and eight runners competing for a $12,500 tag. They will be run as races 2 and 4.

Belmont Park

Cloudy, 50 degrees, track fast

Had he already arrived at Churchill Downs, all eyes certainly would have been on Bernardini when he turned in his final workout for the Breeders' Cup Classic on Tuesday morning. Instead, training in relative anonymity at Belmont Park, only a handful of media types and a few curious horsemen were on hand when the marquee name for this year's World Thoroughbred Championships completed preparations for the main event over a fast track shortly after the renovation break.

Classic

The 17-day fall meet at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., ended Saturday with preliminary figures showing all-time records being set for all-sources mutuel handle and ontrack attendance.

Keeneland estimated the gross all-sources handle at more than $140 million, which would easily exceed the former record of $126 million, set at the 2003 fall meet, also 17 days long. Attendance totaled 233,218, narrowly surpassing attendance recorded at fall meets in 2003 (232,499) and 2005 (232,429 for 17 days).

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The most dominant owner-trainer team in recent years on the Kentucky circuit has split up. Owner Ken Ramsey and trainer Dale Romans confirmed Monday that 47 horses Romans has had in training for Ramsey and his wife, Sarah, are being moved into different stables this week.

Neither Ramsey nor Romans would speak on the record about the reason for the split, other than to reveal it concerned finances.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - A nasty combination of heavy rain and strong winds forced the cancellation of all but one of 18 races scheduled for Aqueduct last weekend. It also meant that this upcoming weekend will be top-heavy with stakes activity.

Between Friday and Sunday, Aqueduct will host 11 stakes races, including seven graded events.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Like Mom Like Sons, one of the more promising 2-year-olds at Woodbine, makes his second start in Wednesday's sixth race here, a six-furlong allowance.

Like Mom Like Sons was not a secret when he debuted Oct. 1, and was bet down to even-money in the six-furlong maiden event. He dueled four wide through a fast opening quarter in 22.07 seconds, then opened up a clear lead on the turn before coasting home on top by nearly eight lengths. His final time of 1:11.15 translated into an excellent 85 Beyer Figure.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The new racing surface at Hollywood Park may be artificial, but the upbeat mood at the track is entirely genuine.

Hollywood reopens Wednesday with two novelties - a synthetic racetrack widely praised by horsemen, and an unusually high feeling of anticipation.

"What a difference a year makes," racing secretary Martin Panza said. "There is an optimistic attitude."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Since Sept. 4, when Noble Stella captured the Grade 3 Glen Falls at Saratoga, trainer Roger Attfield had tried 10 times to saddle his 300th stakes winner.

But last Wednesday, when Attfield entered both Pellegrino and Eccentric in last Saturday's $100,000 Chief Bearhart here at Woodbine, it would have been hard to predict that Attfield would not only reach but surpass that milestone with those two horses.

"Sometimes things work out right, don't they?" said Attfield.

MUSKEGON, Mich. - Q Fortunate Sun, fresh off his 4 3/4-length victory in the Michigan Sire Stakes on Oct. 14, will head a field of eight statebred 2-year-old colts and geldings in the $48,000-added Michigan Futurity at Great Lakes Downs on Wednesday. A seven-furlong race, the Michigan Futurity will be run for the 50th time and goes as the first race on the closing day card. First post is 4:30 p.m. Eastern.