CHICAGO - More than $6.3 million was bet on the Arlington races Saturday. The racing office has been on a roll, the programs here last week packed with entries, and this week is starting out similarly, with more than 90 horses entered on Wednesday's nine-race card.

Most surprising has been the turnout in higher-end allowance races, which typically struggle to attract decent-sized fields. Wednesday's featured eighth race, a third-level turf allowance with a $62,500 claiming option, drew a field of 11, with two more entered main-track-only.

CHICAGO - Fifteen Rounds broke from the rail, was pinned on the rail, and had to run hard just about every step of the Arlington Breeders' Cup Sprint, which he won by a neck Saturday. It was the sort of gut-wrenching effort that can send a horse reeling for days, even weeks. But Fifteen Rounds has seemed nothing like a gutted racehorse in the two mornings since the biggest win of his roller-coaster career.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Coastal Fortress got a late start to her campaign and could be poised to reach her peak in Wednesday's $125,000 Eternal Search Stakes at Woodbine.

Coastal Fortress captured the restricted South Ocean Stakes at 1 1/16 miles in November to close her 2-year-old season. Trainer Barb Minshall then put Coastal Fortress away for the winter, believing everything was okay with her. But Coastal Fortress came up with an ankle problem early this year, a setback that led to her absence from several lucrative early season stakes.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Take one stakes horse from England, of apparently moderate ability. Ship to Woodbine, add Lasix, top with Martin Dwyer, sit back and enjoy.

That's been the winning recipe for trainer Andrew Balding, who is a half-length shy of being undefeated in three stakes starts here this summer after Vanderlin upset Saturday's $234,000 at seven furlongs on turf.

Zarella Ore, a 26-year-old apprentice jockey, suffered a broken hip and multiple fractures to her pelvis when a horse she was riding flipped in the paddock prior to the third race Sunday at River Downs.

Racing was delayed for 40 minutes while local paramedics attended to Ore, who was later taken to University Hospital in Cincinnati. She was scheduled to undergo surgery on Tuesday.

Sur Sandpit rallied from well off the pace to take the lead in the final 50 yards and held on for a neck victory over Rubianos Image in a four-horse blanket finish in the $81,600 Ralph Hayes for older colts and geldings at Prairie Meadows.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - West Virginia and Zoffinger both outran expectations Sunday in the Grade 3, $250,000 at Monmouth Park.

The Iselin victory was a significant step for the New York-bred West Virginia. The 5-year-old Zoffinger, trained by John Forbes, ran the race of his life to rally for second at 65-1.

West Virginia's stablemate Purge got most of the attention and was the favorite at 6-5. West Virginia was a question mark, a winner of more than $500,000, accumulated mostly in statebred races.

Hurricane Katrina dealt Evangeline Downs only a glancing blow Monday morning, and track officials have given the go ahead for racing Monday night. Located approximately 100 miles west of New Orleans, the Opelousas area experienced blustery winds but only a brief period of rain Monday morning as Katrina made landfall.

DEL MAR, Calif. - For the second straight year, trainer Mike Mitchell and jockey Tyler Baze combined to win the Grade 2, $250,000 with a front-running, gray, 6-year-old gelding who had been claimed for $80,000, this time on Sunday with Leprechaun Kid, who re-rallied to beat Laura's Lucky Boy by a nose in the 1 3/8-mile grass race.

EDMONTON, Alberta - With an explosive burst in deep stretch reminiscent of her 2003 horse of the year campaign in Alberta, Raylene captured the $75,000 Edmonton Distaff by 1 1/4 lengths here Sunday.

The 1 1/16 mile Edmonton Distaff was Raylene's first victory since she took a pair of allowance races last year while spending parts of two seasons at Woodbine.