DEL MAR, Calif. - Surf Cat, the winner of the Swaps Stakes at Hollywood Park on July 9, may be sent to the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on Aug. 7 in wake of the defection earlier this week of top 3-year-old Afleet Alex.

Trainer Bruce Headley said a decision will be made in coming days on whether to send Surf Cat to Monmouth or leave him at Del Mar for the $1 million Pacific Classic on Aug. 21.

"We're thinking very strongly of it," Headley said of the Haskell. "It lightened up the load when Alex came out."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Skippingall Theway and See the Wind head a wide-open 11-horse field in Sunday's $250,000 Wonder Where Stakes at Woodbine.

The Wonder Where, for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies, is the third leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara. The winners of the first two races in the series, Woodbine Oaks winner Gold Strike and Bison City Stakes winner Ready and Alluring, have bypassed the 1 1/4-mile grass event.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - First-level allowance races for early-summer 2-year-olds are these days called stakes races, and so it is that seven horses were entered in Sunday's Honest Pleasure Stakes at Arlington Park.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Royal Regalia had been entered in Saturday's Sussex, at Delaware Park, and trainer Justin Nixon had been ready to hit the road for the gelding's first start of the season.

But in the meantime Nixon had entered Royal Regalia in a money allowance here Thursday, and when that 1 1/16-mile turf race filled, the trip became unnecessary.

"I was glad to be able to race him here, and not have a 12-hour ship," said Nixon, who trains the 7-year-old gelding for Stronach Stable.

AUBURN, Wash. - While the $100,000 Mt. Rainier Breeders' Cup Handicap has the featured slot in Sunday's inaugural Longacres Mile Preview Day card at Emerald Downs, the only participant who has actually won the Grade 3 Longacres Mile will prep for this year's renewal in Sunday's $40,000 Governor's Handicap.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Trainer John Simms is sitting comfortably for the upcoming $30,000 Cup Races to be run through Sept. 5. The eight-race series starts Aug. 7 with the six-furlong Don Valliere Memorial for colts and geldings.

The series ends with the 1 1/16-mile turf doubleheader of the Puss n Boots for colts and geldings and the Centre Stage Anne for fillies and mares on Sept. 5. The Cup Races are restricted to runners that have started twice at the current meet. Half of the races are for fillies and mares, the other half for males.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Ola Docura seeks her third consecutive win and second stakes win this year in Sunday's $40,000 Winnipeg Sun Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles at Assiniboia Downs.

Two starts ago, Ola Docura overtook Ericka's Lass late to win the Canada Day, her first stakes victory. In her last start, an allowance prep for the Winnipeg Sun, Ola Docura attended a slow pace before drawing off to win by 3 1/2 lengths.

MIAMI - Final Prophecy, who seems to be either very good or very bad, will need to be at his best to get back on a winning track in Sunday's $40,000 The Vid Stakes at Calder. The overnight stakes is carded at a mile on the turf.

Horseplayers face a dilemma in analyzing Sunday's $35,000 Saratoga Sizzle overnight handicap at Ellis Park. Should they merely bet the best mare, or rather, the one most likely to be at her best under the race conditions?

Tamweel, who finished a close fourth behind Ashado in the Breeders' Cup Distaff last fall, is unquestionably the best horse. But whether she is better than Singit and Speedy Sonata, a pair of skilled turf sprinters, after a six-month layoff and going 5 1/2 furlongs on grass is in question.

BOSSIER CITY, LA. - The barn of national training leader Steve Asmussen has been conspicuously quiet here the first half of the season but you certainly wouldn't know that looking at Sunday's Southern Beau Stakes. Asmussen's entry of Here Tiger and Willtosucceed will rule as the heavy favorite in the 5 1/2-furlong race for Louisiana-bred 2-year-olds.

Each half of the Asmussen entry comes in off an impressive maiden score. The two victories represent a full 25 percent of the barn's win total here just past the halfway point of the meeting.