BOSSIER CITY, La. - A day after Fantasticat's victory in the on Saturday, the colt's trainer, Bobby Barnett, and owners, Russ and Shelda Sherrod, were still enjoying the victory and had yet to make next-race plans. Fantasticat returned to his Churchill Downs base from Louisiana Downs on Sunday.

"We've not discussed a race," Barnett said Sunday. "We'll give him four or five days off and see how he is. But the horse really looks good now. He cooled out well, he cleaned his night grain up - which is always a good sign - and he looks bright and alert this morning."

ELMONT, N.Y. - An impressive win in the Brooklyn Handicap in June put Seattle Fitz on the cusp of becoming a major player in the handicap division. That's about as close as he'll come, for this year, anyway.

ELMONT, N.Y. - The remnants of Hurricane Jeanne were expected to bring as much as two inches of rain to the New York area on Tuesday. If that forecast holds true, Wednesday's card figures to be run under wet-track conditions.

An off track would move Some Kind of Tiger way up in Wednesday's featured $52,000 third-level allowance race at Belmont Park. A field of six was entered for the 1 1/16-mile race, which also offers trainers the option of making their horses eligible to be claimed for $85,000. Two runners are in for the claiming price.

EDMONTON, Alberta - On a day when the top Alberta-bred Thoroughbreds were in the spotlight, it was an Alberta-born jockey, Real Simard, who stole the show.

Saturday's eighth annual Alberta Fall Classic featured seven stakes worth $400,000, and Simard got off to a quick start by winning the first stakes of the day, the $50,000 Beaufort for 3-year-olds.

Simard followed up with two more wins and one second-place finish before the day was out, making it the most successful Fall Classic of his career.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Sensational victories by Ghostzapper and Lion Heart, the landing of the 2007 Breeders' Cup, and a solid upturn in business highlighted the Monmouth Park season that concluded Sunday.

The New Jersey Thoroughbred circuit shifts to The Meadowlands Racetrack on Friday with the Grade 3, $300,000 Pegasus Stakes for 3-year-olds the opening night feature. First post will be 7:30 p.m.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Prairie Meadows concluded its 47-day mixed meeting Saturday with declines in handle.

Total average daily handle from all sources was $448,085, down 16 percent from the $534,284 per day at 2003's 48-day mixed meeting. Ontrack handle averaged $57,976 this meeting, down 13 percent from last year.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Fast works and a $200,000 purchase price made Mazelman look like a good thing in his June 10 debut race. But he finished fifth that day, disappointing trainer Kent Molinaro and his father, Bob, who had purchased Mazelman in February at an Ocala, Fla., sale.

They weren't disappointed Sunday at Bay Meadows, however, when Mazelman made his second start. On a day when the front was the place to be, Mazelman made the lead and was in control all the way.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Mike Mareina had predicted that What's Up Dude would benefit from the addition of blinkers and run a much-improved race after finishing third in the 6 1/2-furlong Silver Deputy at Woodbine on Sept. 6.

And the proof of the pudding was in the eating, as What's Up Dude, under new rider Patrick Husbands, gobbled up four rivals en route to a 4 3/4-length victory here in Saturday's $136,000 Swynford at seven furlongs.

"He's very competitive; he likes to run at horses," said Mareina, who trains What's Up Dude for Kuehne Racing.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Exceptionally and El Tara, who each have won on a Wednesday night, are among a field of seven in Wednesday's Woodbine headliner, a $25,000 optional claimer for nonwinners of three.

Exceptionally has had a productive meeting for Kinghaven Farm and trainer Roger Attfield, winning 2 of 8 outings and earning $74,781. She graduated without a claiming tag in a $32,000 optional maiden race in June, winning by 5 1/2 lengths over a next-out winner.

CHICAGO - When you go weeks without winning, a four-month race meet can seem like a long time. For trainer Ron Goodridge, the 2004 Arlington season might have seemed interminable. But when it finally ended, so did his slump.

Goodridge, 7 for 106 at the just-concluded Arlington meeting, won the first race of Hawthorne's fall-winter meet Friday. In fact, the Goodridge stable won with its first two starters over the weekend, and, with luck, it might have won two more races Sunday.

"How about that, after Arlington?" Goodridge said. "Boy, that was a terrible meet."