Choose drew away to a five-length win Sunday in the off-the-turf $55,000 Wolf Hill Stakes at Monmouth Park. Choose ($9.40), a 4-year-old colt trained by John Forbes and ridden by Tommy Turner, improved his record to 6 wins in 11 starts. He ran the five furlongs in 56.55 seconds.

Procreate was second on the switch back to the main track. He set the world record of 53.79 seconds for five furlongs on the grass in his previous outing, the Yankee Affair Stakes at Gulfstream Park. Introspect was third.

Ramon Dominguez, in search of a mount when the two horses he was originally named to ride were scratched after the race was moved from the turf to the main track, picked up the ride on Mighty Mecke ($6) and guided him to a 2 1/2-length, wire-to-wire victory in the $75,900 Nick Shuk Memorial Stakes.

It was the third win in five starts and the second stakes win for the 3-year-old Mighty Mecke, whose only loss on dirt came when he finished fifth in the Florida Derby.

Now that Melhor Ainda confirmed her status as the top 3-year-old grass filly in the East, she will tackle the West Coast in her next start.

Melhor Ainda easily dismissed six rivals in Sunday's Grade 3, $111,200 , drawing clear to a 2 3/4-length victory over Laurafina at Belmont Park. It was 1 1/2 lengths back to My Typhoon in third.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Andujar has wasted no time in making her presence felt in California.

Andujar, who first raced in California in March, won her third consecutive race and her stakes debut on Saturday, taking the $205,150 at Hollywood Park. The victory came in her first start for owners Paul Reddam and Mark Schlessinger and trainer Doug O'Neill.

A 4-year-old filly imported from France over the winter, Andujar was purchased privately last month, shortly after winning an allowance race by 10 1/2 lengths in her main-track debut April 28.

CALGARY, Alberta - Blackjack Willy ($4.50) redeemed himself Friday night at Stampede Park following his disappointing effort in the Hoofprint on My Heart, winning a one-mile allowance race by nine lengths.

Trainer Rick Hedge added a tongue-tie, changed bits, and hoped for the best after watching Blackjack Willy run greenly in the $50,000 Hoofprint just six days earlier. The result was a complete turnaround for Blackjack Willy, who handled the turns in professional fashion under Perry Winters to defeat four rivals.

ALBANY, Calif. - Lost in the Fog completed preparations for the Grade 2 Riva Ridge at Belmont Park on Saturday with a bullet five-furlong work in 58.60 seconds, the best of 36 at the distance.

After the work, trainer Greg Gilchrist said he was pleased and declared "all things go." Lost in the Fog, an undefeated 3-year-old colt, is following the same schedule he has in the past by flying out Tuesday for a Saturday race.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Lone Star Park has always drawn large crowds, but through the halfway point of its current meet, attendance figures are lagging 19 percent behind comparable dates from a year ago. Handle, however, has remained largely intact, with betting on Lone Star's live races down just 4 percent from the same period in 2004.

Despite the figures, an official said the track is operating on solid ground, with a plan of attack being formulated to bolster business for the rest of the 67-date meet, which closes July 17.

Turf is the focus of the Retama Park stakes schedule for 2005, with 10 of the meet's 16 scheduled stakes to be run on the grass. The most prestigious are two $100,000 turf routes for 2-year-olds, the Ketel One El Joven and the M2 Technology La Senorita.

Retama, located near San Antonio, will open for a 43-night Thoroughbred meet on Aug. 5, and run through Oct. 15.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Hearts Flashy Fire turned the corner last fall at The Meadowlands Racetrack. Trainer Chuck Spina hopes the 4-year-old colt can continue that momentum this summer on the Jersey Shore.

has the rail in the $48,500 allowance feature for New Jersey-breds on the first Wednesday card of the season at Monmouth Park. Hearts Flashy Fire faces nine rivals in the six-furlong race.

In his last race on May 28, Hearts Flashy Fire was second to a runaway winner, Salt Flat Kid.

"That horse really exploded last time," Spina said. "That was an awesome win."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Sunday's Plate Trial at Woodbine produced an exciting stretch duel that saw local star Dance With Ravens prevail gamely over New York shipper Three in the Bag.

But all the talk here Monday morning was not about the race itself but of the subsequent decision by the stewards, who disqualified Dance With Ravens, ridden by Todd Kabel, and placed him sixth after ruling that he had interfered with Atanas, ridden by Rui Pimentel.

Richard Grubb, one of three Ontario Racing Commission stewards here Sunday, issued the following statement after the race: