Trainer Randy Russell, second in the Great Lakes Downs standings, remained in the hospital Wednesday morning following surgery Tuesday evening. The two-hour operation was to repair his left leg, which was broken in a paddock incident Monday evening.

"They used 13 screws and a 14-inch plate for the four fractures and other hairline fractures," said Russell's son Ross Russell, a veterinary student.

"He'll be in the hospital a few more days, then not be able to put weight on it for about eight weeks."

Jockey Quincy Hamilton ranks as the 10th-leading rider in North America by victories after he captured five races on the nine-race card at Remington Park on Tuesday. Hamilton has won 162 races this year, and his mounts have earned $2,078,287.

Hamilton, the defending riding champ at Remington, won the first with Apple's Delight ($4.20), the third with Satin Sun ($5.60), the fourth with Unomes Flash ($4.20), the fifth with Rubiano's Music ($4.20), and the ninth with Live Connection ($11.40).

Trainer D. Wayne Lukas, a onetime resident of Texas, is among those who will be inducted into the Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame. The ceremony will be held at Retama Park near San Antonio on Oct. 1.

Others to be inducted into the Texas Hall are Josephine Abercrombie, a Houston native and prominent owner and breeder who operates Pin Oak Stud; Herbert Graham, a prominent owner and breeder of Paints and Quarter Horses; and Miss Princess, a King Ranch-bred who defeated a three-time world champion Quarter Horse, Shue Fly, in 1947.

Tri Uimet, an easy winner in his only lifetime start on July 29 at Thistledown, is the one to beat in Friday's $40,000 Cleveland Kindergarten Stakes.

The six-furlong race, for 2-year-old Ohio-registered foals, has eight entrants. Fisticuff and Distress Signal could be the main opposition for Tri Uimet.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Trainer Vicki Oliver worries that the Grade 3, $200,000 Monmouth Breeders' Cup Oaks on Sunday comes a little too soon for Golden Locket.

The 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-old fillies tops Monmouth's weekend stakes action.

Golden Locket was a game winner of Monmouth's Serena's Song Stakes on July 24. The filly has never been worse than second this year in six starts, and owns a pair of wins.

"I question coming back a little quicker than I'd like," Oliver said. "She breezed well. Hopefully, if it doesn't come up too tough, we'll run."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Sweetgum and Charming Ruckus, both of whom are dropping in class, could prove the fillies to beat in an interesting pair of allowance races here Friday.

Sweetgum, a 4-year-old trained by Mike Keogh, will be looking to end a nine-race drought in the fifth race, a first-level allowance over 1 1/16 miles on the turf.

In her last start, over the same distance and course here July 23, Sweetgum was beaten just two lengths as the fourth-place finisher in a second-level allowance.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Manitoba Derby also-rans Goneoutandabout and Resurgent look to rebound in Friday's featured seventh race at Assiniboia Downs, a first-level allowance for 3-year-olds at six furlongs.

Claimed for $5,000 by trainer Raymond Liu on May 29, Goneoutandabout beat to $15,000 maiden claimers by 13 lengths in his next start. Goneoutandabout, a son of Lucky North, then finished second in an allowance race for 3-year-olds and third as the heavy favorite in a conditioned claiming race before a ninth-place finish in the Manitoba Derby.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Terry Thompson is headed back toward the top of the rider standings at Prairie Meadows after overcoming two career-threatening injuries in less than a year.

Thompson, who turned 34 Monday, won four straight Thoroughbred meeting titles here from 2000-03. Last June, he was in the midst of a battle for his fifth straight crown and had just captured his first Grade 1 stakes, aboard Island Sand in the Acorn, when a horrific spill sent him to the sidelines.

The fillies Lindas Dasher and Dasha Freda, each yet to gain a Grade 1 win, lead the trials to the Grade 1, 400-yard Golden State Derby at Los Alamitos on Saturday night.

The 10 fastest qualifiers are eligible for the finals on Aug. 27.

Lindas Dasher, an earner of $205,785, has Grade 1 seconds in the Governor's Cup Futurity, PCQHRA Breeders Futurity, and Governor's Cup Derby, her most recent start on July 30. In that derby she went off at 5-2 odds and finished three-quarters of a length behind the sharp Apollitical Time.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - In May of 2001, at the Ramsey Farm in central Kentucky, an enormous 155-pound foal was extracted via cesarean section from a mare named Kitten's First. The typical Thoroughbred foal weighs in somewhere around 120. But every season, Kitten's First produced the biggest foals at Ramsey Farm. They caused delivery problems, and it was deemed prudent to have planned C-sections, a rarity in the horse world.