INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Nothing is easy Sunday at Hollywood Park, where three days of international turf racing conclude with two Grade 1 puzzles and a million-dollar raffle in the guaranteed-pool pick six.

The $500,000 Hollywood Derby for 3-year-olds is the ninth of 10 races, and miler Blackdoun can only win if he can stay 1 1/4 miles. Blackdoun and longshot German import Fight Club head a field of 13 in the derby, while the seventh race, the Matriarch, is the premier race of the three-day Autumn Turf Festival.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - It was the tale of two trips in the Del Mar Derby for Blackdoun and Fast and Furious. It was the best of times for Blackdoun, who got through inside and rallied for his third straight victory. It was the worst of times for Fast and Furious, who ran into traffic on the turn while wide, then rallied belatedly for fifth.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The Grade 3, $100,000 Fall Highweight has a new look and a new favorite after being scrapped from Thursday's card at Aqueduct and redrawn for Sunday.

Nine of the original 11 horses scheduled to start in the six-furlong race were entered back, the major exception being Bwana Charlie, who showed signs of lethargy after not eating well upon his arrival from Kentucky. Bwana Charlie, the original morning-line favorite, had been scratched Thursday before the race was postponed when jockeys refused to ride the final seven races because of poor track conditions.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The comparisons seemed just. As with Six Perfections, Denebola is a near-black filly with an attractive white blaze who closed her 2-year-old campaign with a victory in France's biggest race for 2-year-old fillies, the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac. Both are homebreds of the Niarchos family's Flaxman Holdings Ltd. Both are trained by Pascal Bary.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Noches de Rosa, the winner of major stakes in Chile and California, has been retired after a series of disappointing races in recent months.

Thursday at Hollywood Park, Noches de Rosa finished fifth in the Hermosa Beach Handicap, the third consecutive stakes in which she failed to finish in the top three. She was last of 11 in the Grade 1 Beverly D. Stakes at Arlington Park in August and seventh in the Grade 1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Santa Anita last month.

"She seems to have lost interest on me," trainer Richard Mandella said.

MIAMI - Trainers entering their horses in a $40,000 overnight stakes at Calder on the last weekend of November wouldn't normally expect the opposition to include a member of the Breeders' Cup Classic field. But such will be the case here Sunday, when Dynever starts in the 1 1/16-mile Mel's Hope Stakes.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - After twice facing the top older fillies and mares in training and then holding her own with New York-bred males in the Empire Classic, Board Elligible should find some class relief in Sunday's $75,000 Montauk Handicap for statebred fillies and mares at Aqueduct.

Sunday's card, which features 10 races including the rescheduled Fall Highweight Handicap, will start at noon.

A controversial disqualification at Thistledown last Saturday has been appealed and may lead to the resignation of the track's state steward.

Slewrenity, a 2-5 favorite ridden by jockey Julio Felix, scored a 3 1/2-length victory over Lac Grape in Saturday's sixth race, a six-furlong allowance for horses who had never won two races.

Lyndon Hannigan, who rode Lac Grape, claimed foul against the winner, alleging that Felix struck his mount in the face with his whip near the sixteenth marker.

Hunker down, burrow in, or do whatever it is you do when a long winter is coming. Turfway Park kicks off four months-plus of racing Sunday, and, if nothing else, racing fans should bring their overcoats, ski masks, and plenty of wagering capital to stay in action.

Technically, Turfway divides its winter into two segments: the holiday meet, which runs to Dec. 31, and the winter-spring meet, which runs Jan. 1 through April 8. But except for maybe government regulators, no one notices a difference, and so the winter becomes one huge dose of Turfway.

The most dominant figure at Turfway Park in recent years has not been a particular owner, trainer, or jockey. Instead, it has been jockey agent Steve Elzey, who seemingly could sell ice to Eskimos.