NEW ORLEANS - Midway Road came again with a final lunge after losing the lead in deep stretch to Pie N Burger to win Saturday's Tenacious Handicap by the slimmest of noses.

Spanish Empire broke down during the race and died of an apparent heart attack.

Midway Road went right to the lead easily under Robby Albarado. Lonnie Meche sent Spanish Empire after Midway Road, while Jamie Theriot hustled Pie N Burger just outside the other two leaders. Kodema, Absent Friend, and Fantasticat were unhurried early.

Revolutionary Act broke fastest of all and was never headed when posting her first stakes victory Saturday in the $49,500 Holiday Inaugural at Turfway Park.

Owned by Camelia Casby and trained by Pat Huffman, Revolutionary Act returned $20.20 as fourth choice in a field of 10 fillies and mares after completing six furlongs in 1:09.27 over a fast track.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodbine cancelled its thoroughbred card after the fourth race on Saturday because of high winds and poor track conditions. Saturday's $126,375 Sir Barton Stakes was rescheduled for Wednesday night.

When Charlie Hayward resigned as president and CEO of Daily Racing Form in July, he thought he was headed to retirement, or possibly another business venture. Four months later, Hayward was named president and CEO of the New York Racing Association.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - John Velazquez had only one mount on Friday's card at Aqueduct. It was no surprise it was a winning one.

When Velazquez guided Tales of Glory ($12) to victory in the seventh race, it was Velazquez's 228th and final victory in New York this year. Velazquez, who will be this circuit's leading rider for the fourth consecutive year, is not scheduled to ride again in New York in 2004.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - A week after being scratched from the $350,000 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct because of illness, Kela has been supplemented to Sunday's $100,000 Vernon Underwood Stakes at Hollywood Park.

Trainer Mike Mitchell insists that Kela is ready for the Grade 3 Underwood, which is run over six furlongs. In the last week, Kela has undergone four blood tests and has passed each, Mitchell said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Pelham Bay has shown the ability for rebounding from a bad effort with a good one. Her connections now hope she can develop consistency.

Pelham Bay enters Sunday's $75,000 East View Stakes at Aqueduct coming off an authoritative 4 1/2-length victory in the Maid of the Mist Stakes at Belmont Park on Oct. 23. It was her first start in blinkers, equipment trainer Pat Kelly decided to use after Pelham Bay broke poorly and raced greenly when fifth in the Jose A Gimma.

In an agreement signed late Thursday with the executive committee of the Ohio State Racing Commission, Thistledown stewards Allen Fairbanks, Joel McCullar, and Kim Sawyer have each been fined $2,000 and suspended for three days as the result of a disqualification on Nov. 20.

The racing commission's actions came about after the stewards' disqualification of Slewrenity from first to second in Thistledown's sixth race that day.

Suffolk Downs posted increases in daily average handles and attendance in 2004, the first season the track operated as the lone Thoroughbred track in New England.

Suffolk handled $131,882,718 on its live racing over 119 days from May to November. The average daily handle from all sources on Suffolk races was $1,108,258, a 5.3 percent increase over the 150-day 2003 season.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - As the now infamous Churchill Downs jockey boycott and lockout grow more distant in racing's rearview mirror, the long-term effects of that unsettling period are becoming clearer.