Full fields await fans as Beulah Park begins its 67-day fall meeting Saturday afternoon.

Beulah Park, in Grove City, Ohio, is unable to compete with the slots-inflated purses offered in several neighboring states. Mountaineer Park in West Virginia, for example, offers purses two to three times larger than Beulah in comparable classes, while Hoosier Park in Indiana has a bottom purse of $7,000 compared with $4,100 at Beulah.

But the lower purse levels do not deter horsemen from running at Beulah, Ohio's oldest track.

MUSKEGON, Mich. - Exclusive-njoyment will carry high weight of 120 pounds when he heads a field of nine Michigan-bred 3-year-old colts and geldings in the $50,000 Mackinac Handicap at Great Lakes Downs.

NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - It's hat-trick time for Noon Win. A 2-year-old Ohio-bred filly, Noon Win has won back-to-back stakes from and the closest any of her rivals in Saturday's $40,000 Emerald Stakes at Thistledown has come to her is 9 1/4 lengths.

In her last start, Noon Win dueled for the lead until late in the stretch, then drew of to a 1 3/4-length win going six furlongs in the Miss Ohio Stakes here on Aug. 28. She won the 5 1/2-furlong Tah Dah at River Downs by a length in much the same fashion.

It's impossible to be in two places at once. But that hasn't prevented the trainers of five horses from cross-entering in Saturday's turf features at Pimlico and Delaware Park.

The Larry Murray-trained entry of Foufa's Warrior and Tam's Terms, plus Dr. Kashnikow, Lady of the Future, and Lusty Latin are all entered in both the $150,000 John D. Schapiro Breeders' Cup Memorial, a 1 1/8-mile stakes at Pimlico, and the $100,000 Sussex Handicap, which will be contested at 1 1/16 miles at Delaware.

Charles Town will hold four more prep stakes, worth $40,000 apiece, restricted to horses nominated to next month's series of West Virginia Breeders Classics races. There are two divisions of the C. Ruth Funkhouser at seven furlongs, one for fillies and mares, the other for 3-year-old fillies; and two stakes for 2-year-olds, one for males at 6 1/2 furlongs and the other for fillies at 4 1/2 furlongs.

Among the interesting entries are:

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Inish Glora worked a sharp four furlongs here at Woodbine on Thursday morning as she prepared to defend her title in Sunday's Grade 2, $250,000 Canadian Handicap, a 1 1/8-mile turf race that is a supporting feature on the Atto Mile card.

With assistant trainer Barbara Przedrzymirska in the irons, Inish Glora was clocked in 46.20 seconds on the fast main track, the quickest of 14 works at the distance.

"She's always a good work horse," said Przedrzymirska. "I know her like a book. I've galloped her since she came here."

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Russell Baze had his second five-victory day of the Bay Meadows meeting Wednesday, scoring in the day's first four races and the nightcap.

Baze, the meet's leading rider with 19 victories, also won five on the opening day of the meet.

Baze won with Penny Ante ($3.20), Our Magistrate ($3.40) in the second, Sassy won ($5.80) in the third, Gee Honey ($4) in the fourth and Lauren's Halo ($4.20) in the eighth. He finished third on his other two mounts, White Cedar in the fifth and Geardown in the seventh.

FLORENCE, Ky. - Ten years ago this month at Turfway Park, Jerry Carroll did what he has done most of his adult life: He made something out of nothing.

"The fall meet was awful, just awful," said Carroll, who owned Turfway during a pivotal 13-year period (1986-99) in the northern Kentucky track's history. "We had also just gone through a terrible feud [in 1993] with the horsemen, and we were looking to create a positive out of a negative. We thought, 'What in the world can we do to get people interested in Turfway Park?' "

ELMONT, N.Y. - Last fall, Javier Castellano rode a horse he thought was going to change his life. Right season, wrong horse.

When Castellano guided Eurosilver to victory in the Lane's End Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland last Oct. 4, he started dreaming about roses and the first Saturday in May. It wasn't to be, as Eurosilver developed a glandular infection in April and was forced off the Triple Crown trail.

"I thought I missed out on the opportunity of my life," Castellano said during a recent interview.

Friday's nominal feature is a run-of-the-mill entry-level allowance on turf, but horseplayers looking to catch a glimpse of tomorrow's headliners will focus their attention on the program's three races for 2-year-olds.

The youngster everyone will be watching is Galloping Grocer, who turned heads on Aug. 22 at Saratoga when he romped by nearly a dozen lengths in his debut and came within .20 of the five-furlong track record. Galloping Grocer was a poorly kept secret that day, going off at 4-5 and widening under a mild hand ride from John Velazquez to earn a Beyer Figure of 95.