Jareth Loveberry rode his first career winner Monday evening, when he snuck through on the rail with Clear for Take Off in the third race, a six-furlong claimer. Loveberry, an 18-year-old who started riding earlier this month, had the lead at the top of the stretch and rode steady to hold on by a half-length. Clear for Take Off, owned by Mark Ely and conditioned by Harold Schooley, paid $10.40 for the win.

Racing went on as scheduled here in Lafayette, La., Monday evening, but more than a few people's thoughts were with the New Orleans area, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Lafayette, La. is about 130 miles west of New Orleans.

A host of turf stakes winners from around the Midwest are under consideration for the $125,000 DeBartolo Memorial Breeders' Cup at Remington Park on Monday, including defending champ Major Rhythm. A 1 1/8-mile race, the DeBartolo is the richest turf race of the meet, and it will be supported by two other stakes, the $40,000 Ricks Memorial for fillies and mares on turf and the $40,000 Clever Trevor Juvenile.

There is a special first post of 2:30 p.m. Central on Monday.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Racing resumes at Bay Meadows on Friday with a solid card that starts off a big holiday weekend.

Seven fillies and mares meet in the day's feature, a one-mile first-level allowance race.

Also on the card is a 5 1/2-furlong starter allowance race for 2-year-old fillies and a 1 1/16-mile turf race for maidens.

Sun Valley Anna appears the one to beat in the feature. A 5-year-old mare, she has won 8 of 29 starts and is 4 for 7 over the Bay Meadows track, including a victory in a $25,000 claimer at the Bay Meadows Fair in her last start.

The Three County Fair at Northampton, Mass., opens Friday for a seven-day run with an emphasis on the quaint traditions of the 188-year-old fixture.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Monday's Niagara Breeders' Cup Handicap, with a purse of $300,000, is the most lucrative race on Woodbine's stakes-filled long weekend.

And one trainer with his eye on that prize is Nick Gonzalez, who will saddle Demeteor for the first time in the Grade 2 Niagara at 1 1/2 miles on turf.

Demeteor, a Kentucky-bred 6-year-old, is owned by Kenneth Hoffman, who trained the gelding through the first 20 starts of his career. About a month ago, Hoffman sent Demeteor here to Gonzalez, a longtime friend and winter neighbor in the Ocala, Fla., area.

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan - Arctic Taliyah should go postward as the odds-on favorite and could cement her claim to divisional honors at Marquis Downs in Friday's $6,000 Duchess Handicap for 3-year-old fillies.

A winner of three races in 2005, Arctic Taliyah faces just four others - three of whom are maidens - in the one-mile Duchess, which is the last stakes of the meeting for the division.

AUBURN, Wash. - Itstufftobegood, who won for the fifth straight time at Emerald Downs on Saturday, isn't eligible for claimer-of-the-meeting honors simply because he hasn't raced for a tag at this meet. All five of his wins have come under $10,000 starter allowance or starter handicap conditions.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - John Velazquez won't put up the record-breaking numbers at this Saratoga meet that he has in years past. Heck, he may not even win his third straight riding title up here. Still, it could be argued he has had his most successful Saratoga meet ever.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The 5-year-old gelding Battle Won is as durable and versatile as they come.

He has won stakes races on turf and dirt, traveled from Saratoga to Del Mar, and finished eighth in the Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint last year. Saturday, he seeks an elusive Grade 1 victory in the $250,000 Forego at seven furlongs.