Chris Evans has been fired as vice president of Thoroughbred racing operations for Woodbine Entertainment Group has been terminated, the company announced Thursday.

Evans, 52, had his license suspended for three years in a ruling released by the Ontario Racing Commission on Sept. 18. The commission said it had concluded it had "reasonable grounds to believe that Mr. Evans will not act in accordance with the law or with honesty, integrity, and in the public interest."

That suspension was to be followed by one year's probation.

Larry Goulding, the chief clocker and official photographer at Hastings, died Monday of cancer. He was 49.

A memorial service is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday in the George Royal Room at Hastings.

Born in Winnipeg, Goulding was raised in Southern California but moved to Vancouver in 1976 and took his first racetrack job as a groom for trainer Mel Snow. He later worked as an assistant to trainer Mike Drozdowski, and his charges included Barbex, a multiple stakes winner in the mid-1980's.

PARIS - A contentious renewal Saturday of the Group 1, $320,000 Prix de la Foret over Longchamp's seven furlongs should make a perfect Breeders' Cup Mile prep for Europeans hopefuls. The race will be without the Godolphin-owned Iffraaj, but will feature that organization's Caradak, the horse who beat George Washington into third place in Goodwood's Celebration Mile in his last start.

The Grade 3, $200,000 Connally Breeders' Cup Turf on April 7 will be the richest of 27 stakes worth $1.6 million at the upcoming meet at Sam Houston Race Park in Houston. The track will race 68 nights, from Nov. 17 through April 7.

The Connally for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles on turf was run as a graded race for the first time in 2006. Next year's running again will be supported by two $50,000 turf stakes, the Jersey Lilly Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles and the Sam Houston Turf Sprint Cup.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Butch Lehr's fingers will be crossed tighter than anyone else's Friday night when the Rolling Stones make their historic foray into Churchill Downs. The prospect of unknowing fans trampling his precious turf course is the ultimate nightmare scenario for Lehr, a 39-year Churchill employee who has been the track superintendent since 1981.

"I'm worried, to be honest about it," said Lehr.

MIAMI - A field loaded with speed and a return to the allowance ranks should set Magic Mecke up for another winning effort in Friday's $40,000 main event at Calder.

Brownie Points and Dontbotherknocking, who both shipped from Remington Park to Louisiana Downs last weekend to win $200,000 stakes on the Super Derby undercard, have returned home and will point for stakes on the Oklahoma Derby undercard Oct. 20.

Brownie Points scored a one-length win in the $200,000 Marie P. DeBartolo Oaks at Louisiana Downs. She scored her fourth stakes win in the race, which was one of her long-time objectives.

"That was one of our goals for the fall," said trainer Donnie Von Hemel.

The connections of very few horses across the land have zeroed in on the 2006 Hawthorne Gold Cup, or so it appears from the dearth of possible starters for Saturday?s race ? all $500,000 of it ? entries for which were to be taken Thursday. But the team behind Flamethrowintexan picked out the Gold Cup some months ago. Their horse came to Hawthorne last week, got in a work over the track on Monday, and, according to Kay Cooper, is good to go for Saturday?s race.

Two-time steeplechase champion McDynamo launches a comeback Friday night at the Meadowlands Racetrack in the Grade 2, $75,000 Somerset Medical Center Stakes. The Somerset is a 2 1/2-mile race over 10 National fences.

A 9-year-old gelding, McDynamo has made only one start this season, in the Grade 1 Royal Chase at Keeneland in April, when he pulled up after three-sixteenths of a mile as the 6-5 favorite.

Declan's Moon and Buzzards Bay, trainer Ron Ellis's two leading horses, will miss the Breeders' Cup, Ellis said on Tuesday.

Declan's Moon, the champion 2-year-old male of 2004, has resumed training after being given a break following a last-place finish in the Grade 2 Pat O'Brien Breeders' Cup Handicap at Del Mar on Aug. 20.

A lung infection was diagnosed after the Pat O'Brien, and Declan's Moon recently underwent a precautionary nuclear scan. Ellis said the scan revealed no injuries.