ARCADIA, Calif. - David Cohen had a Happy Hanukkah on Monday at Santa Anita.

The young rider got his first victory in a Grade 1 race by guiding longshot Proud Tower Too to a front-running victory over favored Attila's Storm in the Grade 1, $250,000 for 3-year-olds on the opening-day program at Santa Anita.

Before a crowd estimated by track officials at 34,000, Proud Tower Too and Attila's Storm raced one-two for the entire seven furlongs, with Proud Tower Too ($42.20) prevailing by one length. Attila's Storm finished 3 3/4 lengths in front of third-place Thor's Echo.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Eight stakes-quality fillies and mares compete in Wednesday's Bay Meadows feature, a $62,500 optional claimer at six furlongs.

Trainer Jeff Bonde will saddle , the probable favorite.

Double D Appeal, 3, is one of two stakes winners in the field. She won the Nursery Stakes at Hollywood Park as a 2-year-old and did not race again for 18 months. In her comeback race, she finished third in strong field in the Angel Island at Golden Gate Fields earlier this month.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The names might not ring a bell to racing fans this week, but they could become familiar players on the Triple Crown trail.

On Wednesday, that quartet is part of an eight-horse field of 2-year-olds entered in a $52,000 allowance race over 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita. The allowance race could produce a few starters for the $150,000 San Rafael Stakes over a mile on Jan. 14, a race expected to attract Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Stevie Wonderboy.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Trainer Bruce Levine could hold the key to unlocking riches in Wednesday's mammoth $187,730 pick-six carryover at Aqueduct.

Levine, who is 6 for 20 since the inner track opened, has runners in three of the races in the sequence and all look to have a legitimate shot. Levine will send out Prince Raffie in the fourth, Doll Baby in the sixth, and R B's Token in the ninth.

MIAMI - With four of the six stakes races here this weekend carded for the turf, it was no surprise the grass courses at both Calder and Palm Meadows saw plenty of action during training hours Monday.

At Calder, where the turf is available for training only once a week, seven 3-year-olds and one 2-year-old with designs on stakes races over the weekend prepped for those starts, including Dream On Dream On, who is among the likely favorites in Saturday's $100,000 Pete Axthelm Stakes.

Cole Norman said Monday he received the most amazing Christmas gift of his life: the ability to walk.

Norman is out of the hospital and at home after undergoing three-hour surgery to repair serious damage to his spine incurred last week in an accident on his property. Norman said he was slowly driving his Honda Polaris Ranger - a type of ATV - early in the evening when the vehicle struck a rut on a hillside and overturned, landing on top of him.

Trickey Trevor ($3.40) remained undefeated on wet tracks, scoring an easy wire-to-wire victory in the Holiday Turf Handicap on opening day at Bay Meadows on Monday.

The 1 1/16-mile race was switched to the main track after a week of rain.

Trickey Trevor, now 6 for 6 on wet tracks and 8 for 13 at Bay Meadows, controlled the pace through a 24.03-second opening quarter. He maintained the lead by over a struggling Desert Boom through a 47.09 half.

As expected, a heavy favorite won Monday's $75,000 Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship at Laurel Park. Not, however, the morning-line choice.

Celestial Legend, 7-5 in the track program on the basis of her 4-for-4 record, was scratched when the track came up muddy.

In her absence, New York shipper Somethinaboutbetty was pounded to 3-5 and delivered a 2 1/2-length victory in the stakes restricted to Maryland-bred 2-year-old fillies. Her time for one mile was 1:41.04.

CHICAGO - Laws of geometry say a horse saving ground on the inside part of the racetrack will have an advantage over one racing on a wider path, and thus running farther. But try to explaining that to a half-ton animal trapped down by the rail and feeling antsy about it.

Approximately 10 of 44 horses in a quarantined barn at Turfway Park have shown evidence of the contagious equine herpes virus in blood and nasal swab tests, a Kentucky Department of Agriculture official said Monday.

Kentucky state veterinarian Dr. Robert Stout said none of those with positive tests had displayed clinical symptoms, which include respiratory and neurological ailments. There have been no reports of the virus spreading beyond the quarantined stable, he added.