Holy Ground had not won a race on dirt since his career debut last November. But though he has raced exclusively on turf since April, the 3-year-old Holy Ground clearly loved getting back to the main track.

Facing just three rivals after seven horses scratched when the race was switched from the turf to a sealed wet-fast track, Holy Ground ($7.40) cruised to a 13 1/4-length victory in the $56,454 Stanton Stakes at Delaware Park.

Ridden by Mario Pino for trainer Michael Matz, Holy Ground covered 1 1/8 miles in 1:55.19 while recording his third victory in eight starts.

The appearance of Hall of Fame riders Pat Day and Sandy Hawley at Canterbury Park last weekend helped raise more than $120,000 for the construction of the Dean Kutz Memorial Chapel on the track's backstretch.

Day and Hawley signed autographs for fans on Saturday, then spoke at a fundraiser that evening in the track's Longshots Party Area. Track president Randy Sampson announced at the event that the Canterbury Park Minnesota Fund and the Sampson family would combine to match all donations dollar for dollar.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - has since become a Grade 1 winner, but the memory of her head loss to Lady Tak in last year's Ballerina Handicap still resonates for trainer David Vance.

"She had a tough trip," Vance said Friday from Monmouth Park. "She had a horse laying on her turning for home. She finally got away from her and came up between horses and just didn't get there. She got bounced around a little bit. There was a 10-minute inquiry, but they didn't do anything. We're coming to try again."

CHICAGO - There is a 400-yard Quarter Horse stakes race on Sunday at Arlington. Maybe Jaguar City would have a chance in that one, too.

Jaguar City has won 7 times in 16 starts. She has gone to the lead and come from off the pace in six-furlong sprints, and won with authority making all the pace in two-turn routes. And she will be tough to beat Sunday in a $40,000 overnight handicap, though Jaguar City must spot seven rivals as much as 10 pounds.

DEL MAR, Calif. - There are scores to settle Sunday in the Grade 2, $250,000 Del Mar Handicap at 1 3/8 miles on turf.

will try to avenge his three-quarter-length loss to Always First in the Grade 2 Sunset Handicap at Hollywood Park. That race was decided at the quarter pole, where Runaway Dancer rallied wide and Always First cut the corner.

finished one-two in the restricted Escondido Handicap last month at Del Mar, but that race was decided in the stewards' booth. Sarafan was disqualified and placed second after a minor bumping incident in deep stretch.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Purge could emerge as a force within the handicap ranks when he faces nine rivals Sunday in the Grade 3, $250,000 Philip H. Iselin Handicap at Monmouth Park.

Purge, trained by Todd Pletcher, has shown flashes of talent. The 4-year-old colt won a pair of Grade 2 stakes last year: the Peter Pan at Belmont Park and the Jim Dandy at Saratoga.

At times, Purge, a high-strung son of Pulpit, has been his own worst enemy. He washed out badly in Saratoga's security barns, prompting Pletcher to ship him to Monmouth.

AUBURN, Wash. - Jaybo looms as the one to beat in Sunday's Emerald Downs feature, a 1 1/16-mile race for $25,000 claimers that has drawn a field of six.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Ice Girl, with jockey Desmond Bryan, broke the domination by Vancouver invaders in Alberta's filly and mare stakes this season by winning the 1 1/16-mile Madamoiselle in her latest start. Now Ice Girl will seek her fourth straight victory in Sunday's $75,000 Edmonton Distaff, a 1 1/16-mile race at Northlands that attracted a field of six.

Prior to the Madamoiselle, Ice Girl had scored consecutive front-running victories, with a $40,000 claiming tag and then in an optional claimer.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Following Roscoe Pito's powerful performance in the British Columbia Cup Classic, his trainer, John Snow, made plans to run Roscoe Pito in the Longacres Mile last weekend. Those plans changed when he saw blood trickling out of Roscoe Pito's nose following his final prep for the Mile on Aug. 13.

Instead, Snow opted to run Roscoe Pito in the $40,000 S.W. Randall Plate at Hastings Sunday. Six of the seven horses in the race are stakes winners.

Calder Race Course was forced to cancel live racing on Friday because of the effects of Hurricane Katrina, which had pounded the south Florida area the previous evening. The track did conduct simulcast wagering as scheduled on Friday. Live racing was expected to resume Saturday.

Friday's cancellation was the second resulting from a hurricane this meet. The July 10 Summit of Speed card was postponed one day because of Hurricane Dennis.