DEL MAR, Calif. - The eventful, curious career of New Joysey Jeff came to a sudden, tragic, and ugly ending Monday morning at Del Mar during a workout on turf, when the 3-year-old stakes-class colt suffered multiple fractures in his left front leg that necessitated his euthanization soon after.

According to an official veterinarian report filed with the California Horse Racing Board by New Joysey Jeff's attending veterinarian, Dr. Ted Simpson, New Joysey Jeff had a "displaced and compound fracture" to his left front cannon bone and had fractures in that leg's sesamoid bones.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Four-horse fields are rarely conducive to come-from-behind horses like Court Folly. A torrid pace, though, played right into hands of the late-running longshot, who ran down 1-10 favorite Songster en route to a shocking 1 1/2-length victory in Monday's $150,000 at Saratoga.

CHICAGO - Arlington Park, under scrutiny the last month because of a series of catastrophic injuries during races, had another eventful weekend with the breakdown of Three Hour Nap in the Washington Park Handicap on Saturday. That followed a statement by the Illinois Racing Board raising questions about a recent independent inspection of the track surface.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Richard Shapiro, the chairman of the California Horse Racing Board, made an appearance Sunday at the Sonoma County Fair, answering questions from a group of about 300 fans who were gathered for a handicapping seminar.

Checknbac and Tac it Like a Man finished in a dead heat in the $404,740 Governor's Cup Futurity at Los Alamitos. Both horses are trained by Jaime Gomez and won their first stakes.

Checknbac, ridden by G.R. Carter Jr., and Tac It Like a Man, ridden by J.R. Ramirez, finished 350 yards in a stakes-record 17.32 seconds. Checknbac ($6.20) and Tac it Like a Man ($3) finished three-quarters of a length in front of First to Adore.

Wayzata Bay ($15.80) saved ground to the stretch and rallied to collar the pacesetters in the final strides to score a half-length victory in the $75,000 Prairie Meadows Handicap.

Jockey Carlos Montalvo rated Wayzata Bay in sixth position in the seven-horse field, as No Tolerance ran an opening half-mile in 47.53 seconds. King Freddie made a bid outside of No Tolerance leaving midstretch, with Wayzata Bay bearing down on the outside of that pair and edging King Freddie at the wire. No Tolerance finished another neck back in third.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - A pick seven carryover of $20,120 will spice up an otherwise dreary eight-race card on Wednesday evening at Woodbine.

The first leg of the pick seven is the featured second race, a nine-furlong Ontario-sired grass allowance for fillies and mares. It can probably be pared down to four contenders, including Ifbutmaybewhen.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Invaders from the West Coast continued their domination of Northlands Park stakes when Quiet Cash sped wire to wire in defeating another invader, Trick of the North, in the City of Edmonton Championship here last Saturday.

Quincy Welch piloted Quiet Cash, a 5-year-old Kentucky-bred, to a neck victory in the 1 1/16-mile City of Edmonton, formerly known as the Klondike Handicap. His winning time was 1:44.30. Quiet Cash, owned by Bahadur Cheema, won his third stakes in four 2006 outings.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Three of the five winners of the Haskell Invitational from 1992-96 were based at Monmouth Park. The late Sonny Hine saddled Technology and Skip Away, the 1992 and 1996 winners, and Jimmy Croll was owner and trainer of Holy Bull, the 1994 winner.

Since then, local horses have been shut out.

Praying for Cash, Awfully Smart, and Electrify will try to change that Sunday, when their trainers - Kelly Breen, Alan Goldberg, and Eddie Plesa Jr., respectively - make their Haskell debuts.

"This is our Kentucky Derby," said Breen.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - It would be an understatement to say the past week has been bittersweet for Woodbine-based trainer Danny Vella.

Last Saturday, the Vella-trained Like a Gem registered a major upset in the $252,800 Wonder Where Stakes. But just two days earlier, Knights Templar, Canada's 2-year-old filly champion under Vella's handling last season, had to be euthanized following a battle with lymphoma, a form of cancer.