Attendance and handle at the Hollywood Park fall meeting, which ended Monday, dropped slightly from the 2003 meeting.

When statewide, interstate, and account wagering figures were included, the all-sources handle averaged $8,944,323, a drop of one-half of 1 percent. There was surprising growth of 1.3 percent in intertrack handle in the state, a category that has been in decline in recent years.

The ontrack average handle of $1,313,553 was a decline of 2 percent. On many weekdays, ontrack handle failed to reach $1 million.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Rene Douglas landed his first riding title at a Southern California track during the Hollywood Park fall meeting that ended last Monday, leaving the 37-year-old rider more anxious for the start of the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting on Sunday.

Douglas was winless on the final program, but finished with 37 wins, two more than Tyler Baze.

"I didn't want to think about it until today because Tyler was getting close to me," Douglas said. "It's a thrill. It's a big deal."

MIAMI - In his last few starts, Pies Prospect had no luck at all. In last Saturday's $100,000 at Calder, he didn't need any.

Pies Prospect sat a perfect trip behind the pacesetting Hear No Evil, easily moved to command when given his head by jockey Edgar Prado entering the stretch, then drew off with authority through the final furlong en route to an easy 8 1/2-length victory over Twilight Road. He earned a 110 Beyer Speed Figure.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Festival, who was soundly beaten in her last 10 starts in Japan and the United States, scored an upset in Monday's $150,000 at Hollywood Park.

The race was transferred from turf to dirt on Sunday after a group of jockeys said the turf course was unsafe. The turf course was not used in the final two days of the meeting.

As a result of the surface switch, leading contenders Belleski, Janeian, Katdogawn and Hoh Buzzard were withdrawn. Penny's Fortune, a stakes winner earlier in the meeting, had been previously scratched.

CHICAGO - Win Me Over conquered two turns and statebred stakes competition with a remarkable win Saturday in the Jim Edgar Futurity. Now it is on to Florida, where Win Me Over cannot take shelter in Illinois-bred races.

He might not need to, not after the way he won Saturday's Futurity, breaking from post 14, making one run out of last place to get position on the far turn, and another furious one to blow past favored Humor at Last in deep stretch.

Jockey Christina Gray, who was involved in a two-horse spill at Delta Downs in Vinton, La., on Friday night, was listed in serious condition at Memorial Hospital in Lake Charles, La., on Monday.

She fractured two vertebrae and will likely need surgery, according to a family member who also said her condition has improved since Friday. Gray, 34, was thrown from her mount, Tell a Calm, when the horse fell on the second turn of a one-mile race at Delta.

Winter weather played havoc with racing at several tracks Sunday and Monday.

Pimlico Race Course canceled its eight-race card Monday because of high winds. Live racing returns to Pimlico on Sunday after a five-day break for the Christmas holiday.

Philadelphia Park canceled its live racing after two races on Monday when the jockeys decided weather conditions were too harsh to continue. Monday's live racing at Thistledown and Charles Town was also canceled because of the cold.

ALBANY, Calif. - Golden Gate Fields will have a carryover of over $225,000 when racing resumes Sunday after a series of longshots won the first three races on Monday's card.

First-timer Chullo Uno scored a $143 upset in the first leg of the Pick Six, which entered the day with a $94,951 carryover.

Trainer W.L. McDaniel, 0-for-82 on the year, saddled back-to-back winners in the next two legs, winning with Wild Sissy ($80.40) and Cantresisthiskiss ($82.60).

Rocky Gulch ($3) drove to a three-quarter-length win in the $104,300 Albert Dominguez Memorial Handicap at Sunland Park.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Don Six took advantage of the fortuitous scratches of two speed horses and then proceeded to go gate to wire to win Sunday's Grade 3, $109,400 by 1 1-4 lengths at Aqueduct.

Mr Whitestone rallied from well back to be second, one-half length ahead of Papua. Gators n Bears, the 4-5 favorite, faded to fourth after chasing Don Six for the opening five furlongs. Black Silk and Eavesdropper completed the order of finish.