POMONA, Calif. - The curtain closes Sunday on the 2004 Los Angeles County Fair race meet, but not before trainer Doug O'Neill and jockey Martin Pedroza tighten the grips they've held throughout the 17-day Fairplex Park meeting.

O'Neill set the single-meet record for wins by a trainer with a victory by Blairs Roarin Star on Friday, and he'll look to add to that total when he saddles Jake Skate in Sunday's $100,000 Ralph M. Hinds Pomona Invitational Handicap. Blairs Roarin Star was O'Neill's 14th winner this meet, breaking Mel Stute's record of 13 set in 1986.

POMONA, Calif. - Garrett Gomez's comeback has hit a snag, and instead of riding the closing-weekend race cards at the Los Angeles County Fair, he will spend the weekend in the Orange County jail.

According to his agent, Jim Pegram, Gomez was on "probation hold" in Orange County because of a miscommunication with a probation officer. Pegram and track stewards say they do not believe Gomez is in trouble, and Pegram expects the matter to be resolved early next week.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Yessirgeneralsir faced some of the best horses in the country this summer at Saratoga, so he will be taking a drop in class Sunday for the $150,000 Louisiana Downs Breeders' Cup Handicap at Louisiana Downs. But there is a twist.

will be making his first start on turf in the 1 1/16-mile race, which has drawn some the region's best grass horses, including the defending champ, Warleigh, as well as Maysville Slew and Waupaca.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Blonde Executive ran them off their feet last time out, winning the Grade 3 Duchess Stakes in one of the gamest efforts in recent Woodbine history. She will try to notch her fourth stakes of the meeting in Sunday's $132,250 La Prevoyante, a one-mile turf race for Ontario-sired 3-year-old fillies.

Blonde Executive won the Lady Angela Stakes in May before ending up fourth against older foes in the Ballade Stakes. She subsequently showed a fondness for the grass in the seven-furlong Passing Mood Stakes, leading all the way as the 124-pound highweight.

A federal bankruptcy court judge on Friday in New Orleans confirmed a plan of reorganization filed on behalf of Fair Grounds Corp., paving the way for Churchill Downs Inc. to take control of Fair Grounds Race Course in the coming weeks.

Charles Town Races in West Virginia was scheduled to resume racing on Saturday after a 10-day hiatus because of renovations to the racing surface.

Charles Town had been closed since Sept. 15 because of problems with the track's drainage system. Over the past 10 days, workers at the track removed the topsoil of the racing surface and added more base material in the hope of ridding the track of uneven spots caused by insufficient drainage, according to a spokesman for the track's parent company, Penn National Inc.

MIAMI - Combine a prep race for a Grade 3 stakes with a potential hurricane and you get the strange set of circumstances that has developed before Sunday's $40,000 Sumter Stakes, the final local prep for the $100,000 Spend a Buck Handicap here Oct. 23.

The Grade 3, $250,000 Tampa Bay Derby is the highlight of a $2.1 million stakes schedule for the 2004-2005 Tampa Bay Downs meeting, which begins on Dec. 11.

The derby is the focal point of the track's signature event, Festival Day, which also includes the $150,000 Florida Oaks, the Grade 3, $125,000 Hillsborough Stakes, and the $75,000 Holiday Inn Express Turf Dash. Traditionally run on the third Sunday in March, the day after Gulfstream Park's Grade 1 Florida Derby, Festival Day has been moved forward one day and will be held on Saturday, March 19.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - It took some extra time, but Christmas Time and Pheiffer are set to renew their rivalry in Sunday's $55,000-added Charles H. Russell Handicap at Bay Meadows.

Only eight were nominated to the six-furlong race for fillies and mares, and only six signed on, including Christmas Time's stablemate Gonetorule.

Christmas Time and Pheiffer have met six times this year, with Christmas Time finishing in front of Pheiffer in four of the six meetings.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - The Monmouth Park season ends Sunday with a stakes on the flat and one over the jumps.

The New Jersey circuit shifts north to The Meadowlands Racetrack starting Friday night with first post set for 7:30 p.m. Eastern.

The final racing fling on the Jersey Shore is an 11-race card topped by the $60,000 Just Smashing Stakes for 3-year-old fillies going six furlongs and the Grade 2, $75,000 Metcalf Memorial Steeplechase at 2 1/2 miles over National fences.