OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Turf racing was canceled at Aqueduct on Tuesday after problems were detected with the course. The two maiden races carded for the grass were run on the main track.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Brass Hat, winner of the Grade 2 Ohio and Indiana derbies this year, fractured his right front ankle while finishing ninth in last Friday's Lone Star Derby and will be out of training for at least six months, trainer William "Buff" Bradley said.

Two screws were inserted in his ankle on Saturday. One will be removed in three months, and a full recovery is expected, Bradley said.

CHICAGO - Tamweel checked in fourth Saturday in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, an admirable showing for a filly who has come a long way in a short time. But Tamweel will not be checking back into Chicago, where she spent most of the run-up to the Breeders' Cup.

Tamweel is cooling her heels this week at Lone Star Park, and when she leaves, she is headed to Fair Grounds, where she will winter with trainer Wayne Catalano. Tamweel appeared to have come out of the Distaff in fine physical condition, but her racing schedule has not been determined.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Hugo Dittfach and jockey Jill Scharfstein have been a potent team at Woodbine in recent weeks, winning stakes with both Millfleet and Norfolk Knight.

But the Dittfach-Scharfstein duo outdid themselves here Sunday as both Millfleet and Norfolk Knight, half-brothers owned and bred by Margaret Squires, took down the two biggest pots on the program.

Millfleet, a 3-year-old gelding, prevailed by a neck in the $146,750 Bunty Lawless, a one-mile turf race for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds and upward.

Funeral services for Wendell Hilburn, a longtime jockey at Remington Park, will be held on Wednesday. Hillburn died on Monday in Oklahoma City. He was 40.

Hilburn ranked among the top 10 riders at Remington Park in its early years, and had returned to riding in the last year after being forced to the sidelines by injuries in the late 1990s. One of his most popular mounts was stakes winner Only Cash. This meet, Hilburn had won three races from 38 mounts at Remington.

Funeral services for Wendell Hilburn, a longtime jockey at Remington Park, will be held on Wednesday. Hillburn died on Monday in Oklahoma City. He was 40.

Hilburn ranked among the top 10 riders at Remington Park in its early years, and had returned to riding in the last year after being forced to the sidelines by injuries in the late 1990s. One of his most popular mounts was stakes winner Only Cash. This meet, Hilburn had won three races from 38 mounts at Remington.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - As John Velazquez studied the Breeders' Cup races the night before the event, he thought he could be sitting on potentially the biggest day of his career.

He wasn't wrong.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - After much election-year wrangling on whether to vote for four more years or four new years, horseplayers can put aside politics Wednesday and focus on finding four straight winners.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hollywood Park, which opens its seven-week fall meeting on Wednesday, is significantly enhancing backstretch security. Hollywood is continuing a plan launched at the Oak Tree meeting at Santa Anita this fall in response to a yearlong effort by racing officials to curtail the perception of widespread cheating on the backstretch.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Jockey Corey Nakatani won his second consecutive riding title at a major Southern California meeting and trainer Mike Mitchell ended a seven-year drought between titles at the five-week Oak Tree at Santa Anita meeting that ended on Sunday.

Nakatani finished with 21 wins, two more than Victor Espinoza and three more than Tyler Baze and Rene Douglas.

Mitchell won the 15th title of his career with 13 wins, two more than Doug O'Neill. Bobby Frankel finished third with 10.