Dontbotherknocking closed for 1 1/2-length win over favorite Major Rhythm to capture the $150,000 DeBartolo Memorial Breeders' Cup Handicap for the second straight year Monday at Remington Park. The DeBartolo, a 1 1/8-mile turf race, was one of three stakes on the card.

Dontbotherknocking ($10) settled well off the pace early, as Gin and Sin set fractions of 24.13 seconds for the opening quarter, 47.90 for the half-mile mark, and 1:11.81 for six furlongs. Dontbotherknocking kicked into high gear in the stretch, covering the distance over a course rated good in 1:48.14.

ALBANY, Calif. - Spellbinder ($4.40), winless since capturing the Grade 2 San Antonio in February set a comfortable pace and re-rallied after being passed in the lane by Sharp Writer to win the $150,000 Grade 3 at Golden Gate Fields on Monday.

The 6-to-5 favorite broke in stride and took the lead into the turn in the 1 1/16-mile race. Though closely pressed by Distorted, he was relaxed and began to open into the stretch.

Tak's Wish ($3.40) easily outclassed six other Illinois-bred 2-year-old fillies winning the $40,800 All Sold Out Stakes by six lengths at Fairmount Park on Monday. Cloudy and Rain finished second, 10 1/2 lengths clear of Fearless Morgan.

Owned and trained by Dawn Martin, Tak's Wish was ridden by Argelio Velazquez and covered six furlongs in 1:13.20.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Jockey Victor Espinoza equaled a Del Mar record by winning the first six races on Monday, giving him seven straight victories at the track. He also won the final race on Sunday.

Espinoza thus tied the record for wins in a day, which was set by Bill Shoemaker on Sept. 4, 1954. Shoemaker also won six straight races that day, according to Del Mar officials. Shoemaker also won the first race the next day there was racing, on Sept. 6, 1954 to give him seven straight wins, too.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Stevie Wonderboy won last year's Del Mar Futurity and parlayed that into a victory two months later in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. On Wednesday at Del Mar, seven other 2-year-olds will be attempting to follow in his footsteps. Only one, though, shares the same trainer.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Only in the past few years, and most notably this summer, has trainer Chris Paasch registered on the national scene. It might seem he has come from nowhere, perhaps even back from the dead. Truth is, he has.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - At the half-mile pole of Monday's Grade 1 at Saratoga, trainer Todd Pletcher wasn't sure where Circular Quay was going to finish in the race. In the next eighth of a mile, Pletcher was pretty sure he knew exactly where Circular Quay was going to finish.

"At the three-eighths pole I thought he'd win,'' Pletcher said. "You could see him revving up and you knew what everybody else was going to do.''

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Despite a poor first week, the cancellation of an entire card, and the refunding of more than $3 million because of late scratches, Saratoga enjoyed a successful meet in terms of handle and attendance.

Ontrack attendance averaged 25,959 for this year's 35-day meet, up 0.18 of a percent from last year's daily average of 25,914 for 36 days. This year's meet lost a day when the nine-race Aug. 2 card was canceled because of extreme heat.

DEL MAR, Calif. - If there's any blame to go around for Brother Derek's fourth-place finish in the El Cajon Handicap on Saturday at Del Mar, trainer Dan Hendricks says it should land on him.

"He acts fine," Hendricks said at his barn Monday morning. "He's sound. He's doing better than the rest of us. He had breezed so easily coming into the race that he had me deceived that he was fit and ready to go. Looking back on his works, they couldn't have been better. Maybe he needed more. He has an aggressive style of running. He needs to be dead fit."

FLORENCE, Ky. - The first North American track to race on Polytrack will kick off its second year with the revolutionary surface when Turfway Park opens a 22-day fall meet Wednesday night.

Despite nearly universal acclaim for Polytrack, which led to Turfway registering substantially higher all-sources handle last year, management chose to tinker a bit with the surface. The track was shut down for two days recently as almost 4,200 tons of new Polytrack material replaced about two inches on a track that made its debut last September.