FORT ERIE, Ontario - Owner Robert Elkins started a tradition 10 years ago when, on Labor Day, he dove into one of the Fort Erie Racetrack's infield lakes. His Dancing for Beans had just captured the Puss N Boots Stakes and Elkins was making good on a vow.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Miss Terrible was favored at even-money Saturday in the , but jockey Mark Guidry seemed to know right away that the favorite was shaky.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Favored Elle Runaway ($9.80) overtook 11-1 shot Count to Three in midstretch to capture the $165,700 Ontario Colleen Handicap on Saturday at Woodbine.

Elle Runaway stalked the pace in the one-mile turf event and loomed into serious contention early in the stretch. She went on to prevail by three-quarters of a length. The winning time was 1:36.11.

Count to Three, who set fractions of 22.71 seconds, 45.90, and 1:11.09, finished two lengths clear of Playwild, the third-place finisher in the 13-horse field of 3-year-old fillies.

NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - Trainer Miguel A. Feliciano, who has seven stakes wins from 22 starts this year, and jockey Ricardo Feliciano, Miguel's nephew and leading rider in Ohio stakes races, teamed to win the $40,000 Ohio Debutante Handicap with Pyrite Bonds at Thistledown on Saturday.

A 3-year-old by Formal Dinner, Pyrite Bonds broke alertly to make the lead a few strides out of the gate, set the pace with quick fractions, and prevailed by a length over heavily favored Bold Passage. It was another 2 3/4 lengths back to Noon Win, who finished third.

Hide and Chic, the beaten favorite in the Grade 1 Test at Saratoga a month ago, faces softer competition for her initial race around two turns in Monday's $100,000 Pennsylvania Oaks.

The Oaks, which will be contested at a mile and 70 yards, goes as race 9, immediately preceding Philadelphia Park's premier event, the Grade 2, $750,000 Pennsylvania Derby.

At an age when most female racehorses have long been retired to the breeding shed, Rue des Reves is running better than ever.

The 6-year-old Rue des Reves has won 7 of 8 starts this season, including a $100,000 turf stakes at Canterbury Park, and earned $141,000.

Despite her flashy credentials, Rue des Reves is rated no better than fourth choice at 8-1 on the track's morning line for the $75,000 Summer Finale, the co-feature on Mountaineer Racetrack's holiday card.

After crushing seven outclassed opponents in a stakes two weeks ago, One Way Flight figures to dominate again when he returns to Finger Lakes for Monday's $248,400 New York Breeders' Futurity.

The six-furlong futurity, first run in 1963, is one of two stakes for New York-breds on the Labor Day holiday program. One race earlier, 3-year-old fillies will go 1 1/16 miles in the $75,000 New York Oaks.

Captain Chessie, who led from start to finish in last year's Taking Risks Stakes but hasn't won in four widely spaced races since then, tries to recapture his best form when he returns to Timonium for the Taking Risks Stakes, the closing-day feature.

Unlike last year, when the race was a 1 1/16-mile route, Monday's $50,000 Taking Risks will be contested at 6 1/2 furlongs.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Farewell, old sod.

The $60,000 Bob Harding Monday will be the final stakes race run over the existing Monmouth Park turf course.

Replacement of the course, one of the major renovation projects in advance of the 2007 Breeders' Cup, begins Tuesday.

Before the work crews attack, Monmouth will squeeze out a few final grass races, including the Harding at a mile.

Forest Picnic appears to be in a good spot to make it three in a row when he heads a field of 10 in the $75,000 Governor's Buckeye Cup Stakes over 1 1/4 miles at Thistledown.