ARCADIA, Calif. - Time finally caught up with Continental Red, the durable 9-year-old gelding who earned $1,363,788 the hard way - by showing up. Owner-breeder Weston Fitzpatrick said Friday that Continental Red - 16th on the list of all-time Cal-bred money winners and the leading active earner - has been retired after a relentless 74-start career.

ALBANY, Calif. - Trainer Patrick Gallagher likes the way Red Top is coming into Sunday's $100,000 Miss America Handicap at Golden Gate Fields, and thinks she has a good chance to win her first stakes in the 1 1/8-mile turf race.

Given a seven-week freshener after winning a race over the course here May 29, Red Top has run three times in Southern California since, including allowance races in which she was sixth by 2 1/2 lengths and second by a half-length.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Off-the-turf has been the phrase of the month at wet Belmont Park, but with Belmont's season coming to an end Sunday, there remains no reason to preserve the grass course.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Wild Buddy will be easy to spot Sunday at Santa Anita. The front-runner will be loose on the lead in the Grade 3 Carleton F. Burke Handicap, a 1 1/2-mile turf race that he just might win - if he can get the distance.

"We're going to give him a good-sized lead, give him a breather, and then go on," trainer Steve Knapp said. It is a good plan, and different from the tactics Wild Buddy employed Oct. 8 in the Grade 2 Oak Tree Mile, won by Singletary.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Delta Monarch could be a lukewarm favorite in what appears to be a competitive feature race at Hastings on Sunday. Timely Brush should also attract some attention in the 1 1/16-mile allowance race for 3-year-olds who haven't won a stakes race in 2005.

Trained by Tracy McCarthy, Delta Monarch hasn't won going around the three turns of Sunday's race, but he closed strongly to finish fourth in the 1 1/16-mile Hastings Sophomore Stakes Sept. 24. With plenty of speed signed on Sunday, he should be a major factor late.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Millfleet and Tusayan will both be looking to relive past glories in the $125,000 Bunty Lawless Stakes on Sunday at Woodbine.

Millfleet won last year's Bunty Lawless, which was run over a mile of yielding turf on Oct. 31. He also won the Deputy Minister Stakes a mere 11 days earlier on the main track.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Areek has won a remarkable 5 of 7 starts in Florida, New Jersey, and New York this year. She will need that sort of consistency to have a chance in Sunday's Grade 2, $150,000 First Flight Handicap at Belmont Park.

Trained by Mark Hennig for Shadwell Stable, won two six-furlong stakes at Monmouth Park in July and August and was second to Smokey Glacken in the Grade 3 Floral Park Handicap over six furlongs on Sept. 17.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Barclay Tagg isn't one to rush horses into stakes races, but he is making an exception with his impressive maiden winner Bella Fortuna, who is one of eight juvenile fillies entered in Sunday's Grade 3, $100,000 Tempted Stakes at Belmont Park.

The Tempted, one of four stakes on Belmont's closing-day card, is run at one mile around one turn.

Premier Dance, who earlier this month was scratched from the MEC Mile at Remington Park after drawing post 12, resurfaces Saturday at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., where he will be favored to win his fourth straight stakes race in the $50,000 Governor's.

The six-furlong race for 2-year-olds drew eight, including stakes winners Might Be Hooked and Mining Gold.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Millfleet and Tusayan will both be looking to relive past glories in the $125,000 Bunty Lawless Stakes on Sunday at Woodbine.

Millfleet won last year's Bunty Lawless, which was run over a mile of yielding turf on Oct. 31. He also won the Deputy Minister Stakes a mere 11 days earlier on the main track.