The Bay Meadows Land Company, which owns and runs Bay Meadows as well as Hollywood Park, has hired the real estate broker Collier International to find a possible alternative location for Bay Meadows, company spokesman Adam Alberti confirmed Tuesday.

According to the San Mateo Daily Journal, the company is looking to possibly relocate Bay Meadows to an area where the land is less expensive and the community would be receptive to expanded gaming at the track.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - While First Samurai will be given a brief freshening before resurfacing in Florida for a winter campaign, most of the unusually deep class of Kentucky-based 2-year-olds will remain active through the end of this month.

First Samurai, third as the favorite in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile last weekend, is resting in Frank Brothers's barn at Churchill Downs, where two key graded stakes for 2-year-olds will be run this month: the Grade 3 Iroquois on Saturday and the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes on Nov. 26.

As a result of the two hurricanes that damaged tracks in Louisiana between August and September, the makeup of the backstretch this winter at Oaklawn Park will be more diverse. Fair Grounds regulars Tom Amoss, Bret Calhoun, and Al Stall Jr. are among those trainers that have indicated an interest in having stalls at Oaklawn, and all would be new faces to the meet, which opens Jan. 20.

CHICAGO - On pedigree alone, there is no reason He's a Hunk can't win the featured fourth race on Thursday at Arlington. The race is at 1 1/16 miles, and although He's a Hunk hasn't raced around two turns, he's by Breeders' Cup Classic winner Awesome Again and out of a mare by the influential stallion Flying Paster. Everything says route - except his history.

But handicappers looking for a clear picture might be looking here in vain. The featured fourth, for second-level allowance horses, has no clear-cut favorite, no obvious winner. Just seven horses in varying shades of gray.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Southern California racing has been thrown into late-season disarray with the announcement from Hollywood Park that turf racing has been cancelled for its 31-day autumn meet, which begins next Wednesday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Aqueduct was home for two winners on last Saturday's Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships program at Belmont Park. For the next six months, it will be home for the entire New York Racing Association circuit as racing shifts cross-town to the Big A beginning Wednesday and will stay here for the next six months.

Aqueduct's main track will be used for only 20 days before racing shifts to the winterized inner track on Nov. 30. Turf racing will continue as long as weather permits. First post is 12:30 p.m. daily with a few exceptions Thanksgiving weekend.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - A highly successful Breeders' Cup Day was a nice distraction from the problems plaguing the cash-strapped New York Racing Association. But as the venue switches from Belmont Park to Aqueduct beginning Wednesday, the focus will once again be on the NYRA's ability to conduct racing uninterrupted through the winter.

Earlier this fall, NYRA president Charles Hayward warned legislators in Albany that if NYRA does not get an infusion of cash soon, it would be in jeopardy of being unable to conduct racing through the winter.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - An injured horse was misidentified by a state veterinarian in the 10th race at Churchill Downs on Sunday, resulting in another horse in the race being incorrectly scratched and having to run for purse money only.

After a horse flipped in the gate just prior to the start, Dr. Nate Koval, the state veterinarian overseeing the gate, contacted the stewards and notified them that Ambling, the number four horse, had been injured and should be scratched, chief steward John Veitch said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The error made by a state veterinarian at Churchill Downs on Sunday that led to an incorrect scratch is a reflection of underlying problems of short staffing and low pay, said Dr. Gary Wilson, chief veterinarian for the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority.

Wilson said Monday that because state veterinarians in Kentucky are hired on an interim basis and on a pay scale that is among the lowest in the country, new hires by the state are generally inexperienced, he said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It won't be getting Saint Liam, but Churchill Downs will be more than happy to get a few leftovers from the Breeders' Cup Classic when the marquee race of the fall meet, the Grade 2 Clark Handicap, is run Nov. 25.

Saint Liam, who figures to be voted Horse of the Year after capturing the Classic, is the reigning champion in both major handicap races at Churchill, having won the Clark last fall and the Grade 1 Stephen Foster in June.