ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodbine will once again host the separate Canadian pools for Saturday's Breeders' Cup card at Lone Star Park, including a pick six with a mandatory payout.
It is highly probable, though, that well before next year's Breeders' Cup, Canadian horseplayers will be wagering directly into the pool of their choice south of the border.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Hall of Fame jockey Russell Baze has seen this type of pace scenario before.
"It looks like that Green Team race," he said after perusing the past performances of the six runners scheduled for a six-furlong $80,000 optional claimer, which is Bay Meadows's Thursday feature.
The six runners in the field have won a combined $1,357,601, but none has shown any early foot sprinting.
CHICAGO - The owner Frank Calabrese and trainer Wayne Catalano joined hands again earlier this month, reviving a relationship that flamed out last winter. Catalano has spent the last few weeks shuffling pieces, getting to know the horses and figuring out where they belong.
Asked Tuesday how things had progressed, Catalano said, "We'll know after Thursday."
Elwood D. Heironimus, a longtime racing secretary and then steward at the Charles Town Races, died Oct. 21 at his home in Charles Town, W.Va. He was 83.
Heironimus, a World War II veteran, worked in the racing offices at the Charles Town and Shenandoah Downs tracks. He was appointed steward in the mid-1980's and retired as a steward in 1996.
Trainer Barbara Riley has been left paralyzed from the waist down after a fall in a riding accident during training hours Friday at Turfway Park, said Connie Kordenbrock, a friend of Riley.
She underwent surgery Sunday to have vertebrae realigned that were crushed.
"The doctors say as far as walking again she is going to need a miracle," Kordenbrock said.
John Velazquez winning a race aboard a Todd Pletcher-trained horse is a regular sight in New York. It happens less frequently in Kentucky, probably because they are often busy winning elsewhere.
That may change Thursday, when Velazquez and Pletcher - the leading money-earning jockey and trainer in North America - are represented by Paddy's Daisy in the $100,000 Jessamine County Stakes at Keeneland.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The horse-for-course theory gets tested right away on openinbg day of the Aqueduct meet, when Kissin Saint - who has won at the Big A and nowhere else in his 14-race career - takes on four rivals in an optional claiming route.
The 1 1/8-mile race is for older horses who have not won a race of a mile or longer this year, except claiming or restricted races, or those who have not won four "other than." Two entrants, Limero and Full Flow, have been entered for the $100,000 claiming price.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Considering the circumstances, trainer David Bell won as many races here as he could have last weekend.
Bell did send out one loser, Vincita, who finished sixth in Saturday's $250,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes, but he also trains the Princess Elizabeth winner, Victorious Ami.
On Sunday, Bell recorded back-to-back longshot scores with his only two starters: Synful Charm took the day's second race, a maiden $32,000 claimer, and I Thee Wed won the third, the $282,750 Highlander Handicap.
