DEL MAR, Calif. - Horse Greeley capped an ideal summer at Del Mar for jockey Victor Espinoza by racing to victory in the Grade 2, $250,000 Del Mar Futurity on Wednesday's closing-day card.

Horse Greeley ($8.40) outfinished favored Great Hunter by 1 3/4 lengths, with Stormello another 1 1/4 lengths back in third. Prime Ruler, the second choice, finished last in the field of seven in a dull try. His rider, Jon Court, lost his left iron at the start, but got it back in the stirrup within 100 yards.

During an election drive last November to gain approval for expanded gaming at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., the track's president, Charles Cella, agreed to put up $1 million to establish a charitable foundation for the city if the referendum was successful. Thursday, he came through on his word, and presented the Oaklawn Foundation with a $1 million check to launch an organization that will fund scholarships for the area's youth and build a center for aging.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Marty Wolfson sees the postponement to Saturday of the Grade 3, $150,000 Red Bank Stakes on the turf at Monmouth Park as a possible silver lining for Miesque's Approval.

The 7-year-old Miesque's Approval winds up on a course softened by midweek rain in a redrawn field that includes added early speed.

"I was hoping the turf would get a little softer," the trainer said. "It was so hard earlier in the summer. The more speed the better for me."

One positive that Polytrack brings to racing's table is its role as a catalyst for rare matchups. If not for Polytrack, a grass horse such as millionaire Honor in War probably never would race against contemporaries such as Gouldings Green, Alumni Hall, Greater Good, and some of the other accomplished dirt runners he will face Saturday.

Many trainers have come to view Polytrack as a fair middle ground for turf specialists versus their dirt counterparts, and that hypothesis figures to get quite a workout in the Grade 3, $100,000 Turfway Park Fall Championship.

Horse-for-the-course Your Bluffing will try to overcome Sinister G's superior speed and the class edge of Grade 2 winner Mister Fotis in Saturday's $100,000 Charles Hadry Stakes, a one-mile dirt race for older horses at Laurel Park.

The 11-race card, which also includes the $75,000 Humphrey Finney for 3-year-old Maryland-breds, will offer a $10,000-guaranteed 50-cent pick six on races 5-10. One bettor collected $7,499.95 by correctly picking all six winners on Wednesday's program, the first time the guarantee was offered.

ALBANY, Calif. - Santa Fe's wire-to-wire victory in his last start was impressive and looked like it was accomplished quite easily, but because Santa Fe was making his first start in seven weeks, trainer Matthew Chew was holding his breath most of the way.

Chew had told jockey Michael Baze he might be on a short horse, so "even though he was on the lead, I was agonizing the first seven-eighths of a mile."

Santa Fe won the race, an $80,000 claimer, by a length as Baze eased him around the Del Mar turf course with an open lead that allowed the 4-year-old colt to relax.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Seven Secrets earned a shot in the Grade 3 $250,000 British Columbia Derby Sept. 24 with a workmanlike two-length victory over a game Forceful Intention in the 1 1/16-mile Richmond Derby Trial last Sunday.

Although the Trial was his first stakes win, Seven Secrets has shown that he can run with the best 3-year-olds at Hastings, and unless a very good horse shows up from out of town, he must be considered one of the favorites for the derby.

Trainer Larry Jones readily admits he would prefer not to run two of his best female sprinters against each other. Given the circumstances, however, Jones said he felt compelled to give both the 5-year-old Miss Elsie and the 3-year-old Hello Liberty a crack at the $200,000 purse in Saturday's Grade 3 Endine Handicap at Delaware Park.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Magic Skier, a winner of two of three races at Monmouth Park this season, will make her turf debut Saturday in the $60,000 Thomas J. Malley Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, one of three grass stakes on the card that also includes the Grade 3, $150,000 Red Bank Stakes and the $60,000 Bob Harding Stakes.

Magic Skier will face seven rivals in the 5 1/2-furlong Malley with the meet's leading rider, Joe Bravo, replacing apprentice Stacy Podobinski.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Trainer Daryl Ezra is on a mission. He aims to have Grab the Cat snare horse of the year honors at Fort Erie.

Twice before has the Fort's horse of the year come out of Ezra's barn - Ashagio in 2003 and Lucky Tec in 2004.

Grab the Cat will go for her fifth straight score in Saturday's $30,000 Longshots OTB Cup. The six-furlong race drew a field of seven fillies and mares.

Grab the Cat, 4, is undefeated in four appearances at the Fort Erie meet. Her latest win came in the 1 1/16-mile Golden Horseshoe Cup on Aug. 12.