ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Of 162 foreign horses that have through the years traveled to Arlington Park for the three turf stakes that make up Saturday's International Festival of Racing, 10 have left winners. Foreigners have won six of 22 Arlington Millions, three of 15 Beverly D.'s, and one Secretariat, though that race had no European invasion until fairly late in its history.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - The name General Jumbo was bandied about in the last week as a possible starter in the Secretariat Stakes, though Niall O'Callaghan, the horse's trainer, suggested General Jumbo would have been given serious consideration only if the Secretariat had started to fray. Instead, O'Callaghan has picked out a plum spot for General Jumbo: a 3-year-old entry-level allowance race with a $50,000 claiming option that serves as the Thursday feature at Arlington.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Smuggler, the leading 3-year-old filly on the East Coast, will be forced to miss the Grade 1 Alabama on Aug. 20 after developing a temperature, trainer Shug McGaughey said Tuesday.

Coming off wins in the Mother Goose and Coaching Club American Oaks, Smuggler would have been favored for the $750,000 Alabama - the third leg of New York's triple crown for 3-year-old fillies - run at 1 1/4 miles.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The enigmatic Cloakof Vagueness was a perfect lady Tuesday morning after working a half-mile in preparation for Thursday's eighth race at Saratoga, the second division of the De La Rose Stakes for older fillies and mares. Her trainer, Phil Hauswald, said he is hoping that deportment continues right through the race, which would give Cloakof Vagueness her best chance at scoring her first stakes victory.

DEL MAR, Calif. - There's no questioning the talent of Honorable Coach, who is graded stakes placed. It's his disposition that has trainer John Shirreffs keeping a close eye on him.

"He's been a little anxious," Shirreffs said.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Tucked Away, the surprise winner of the Grade 2 Clement Hirsch Handicap on Sunday, will defend her title in the $125,000 Solana Beach Handicap for California-bred fillies and mares on Sept. 4.

Tucked Away has raced primarily in statebred stakes in the last year. The $300,000 Hirsch Handicap is the most prominent win of her career.

Haskell Day capped the biggest racing weekend of the year for the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, the owner and operator of Monmouth Park and The Meadowlands Racetrack.

Total attendance was 75,034 for the Saturday-Sunday period as the two tracks presented their premier 3-year-old events.

The Meadowlands concluded its Standardbred season Saturday with the $1.5 million Hambletonian. Monmouth ran the $1 million Haskell on Sunday.

Ontrack wagering reached $7,097,834 for the two days.

AUBURN, Wash - Eleven graded stakes winners, including two former winners, are among the 25 horses nominated to the Grade 3, $250,000 Longacres Mile on Aug. 21 at Emerald Downs.

Former Mile winners among the nominees are Sabertooth, who won in 2002, and Adreamisborn, the defending champ.

Adreamisborn's trainer, Jerry Hollendorfer, also nominated Yougottawanna, whose $671,099 in career earnings tops the list. Yougottawanna would appear the more likely of the Hollendorfer-trained duo to run, as Adreamisborn won at Santa Rosa just last Saturday.

CINCINNATI - An old saw in Ohio is that if a horse is an Ohio-bred he should probably stay there, and with over $1.9 million in stakes purses set aside for statebreds at Ohio's three Thoroughbred tracks, there is plenty of economic incentive to do just that.

Jockey John Jacinto compiled quite a past performance line last weekend at Louisiana Downs. He won nine races between Saturday and Sunday, and the combined winning margin of his mounts was 52 3/4 lengths.

The decisive nature of the wins seems to parallel the tone of Jacinto's meet, as he leads all riders with 86 wins, 15 more than second-leading rider Guy Smith.