ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - The powerful Godolphin Stable has sent one runner each for Saturday's Grade 1 Arlington Million and Grade 1 Beverly D., but they snuck another horse onto the back of the bus. Tizdubai, who vanished after impressively winning her only two starts at 2, is one of three horses besides the Grade 1 competitors that Godolphin has shipped to Arlington.

Monday's pick six at Del Mar returned $322,561.40 to three winning ticket-holders on a day when no favorites were successful during the pick-six sequence.

The winning horses were Labamta Babe ($26.80), Going on Again ($10), West War ($14.80), Best in the Storm ($8.80), Head of the House ($17.40), and Passion for Words ($14.80).

The pick six began with a carryover of $255,815.

According to track officials, the winning tickets were purchased at Fairplex Park in Pomona and through the Nevada and Wisconsin satellite betting systems.

A benefit poker tournament for trainer Dan Hendricks will be held Thursday at the Ocean's 11 Casino in Oceanside, Calif.

Hendricks was paralyzed from the waist down in a motorcycle accident in mid-July. Half of the proceeds from the poker tournament will benefit Hendricks and his family.

The tournament, to begin at 7 p.m., is limited to 175 players; the buy-in is $100. Players who are knocked out of the tournament can buy back in once for $50.

Further information is available by calling (858) 792-4230.

FERNDALE, Calif. - For jockey Victor Miranda, few things are more enjoyable than competing in the Humboldt County Fair, which opens a 10-day run Thursday.

Racing in the picturesque Victorian village of Ferndale truly has a country fair atmosphere. Racing here hasn't changed that much since the first meeting held here in 1896.

Fair manager Stuart Titus looks forward to a good meeting, with improvements to the racing surface that make the track "the best for day one that we've ever had." With an increase in overnight purses, Titus expects larger fields, too.

Trainer Steve Specht said he was "sweating bullets" seeking a victory in his hometown, and he accomplished that when Our Mango ($28.40) got a perfect trip along the rail to win the $51,895 Elie Destruel Handicap on Monday, closing day at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa.

"When Christmas Time scratched and we ended up on the rail, I was a little concerned because my mare has just enough speed that she might have gotten trapped, but she was also on the best part of the track," Specht said.

ETOBICOKE, Ont. - Wake at Noon is back at Woodbine.

Canada's horse of the year, champion older horse, and champion sprinter in 2002, Wake at Noon rejoined trainer Abraham Katryan here Tuesday after spending the winter as a stallion on the farm of his owner and breeder, Bruno Schickedanz.

"We took him out of training at the end of January," said Schickedanz. "He retired sound - in perfect order. We bred him to 50-odd mares."

SAN MATEO, Calif. - For several weeks, trainer R.L. Martin has tried unsuccessfully to enter Credentialed in a race.

So Thursday at the Bay Meadows Fair, he did what many trainers do to make a race go, but with a twist.

He entered not only Credentialed in the day's feature, a $20,000 claimer at six furlongs, but also Spectacular Milli. That brought the total of entrants in the race for 3-year-old fillies to five, and it was carded.

AUBURN, Wash. - Trainer Jim Penney will have a fighting chance to win a record fifth Longacres Mile when the Northwest's most prestigious race is renewed for the 69th time on Aug. 22.

Salt Grinder ensured as much on Sunday with his smashing win in the $40,000 Governor's Handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs. Under regular rider Gallyn Mitchell, Salt Grinder outdueled the favorite, Willie the Cat, through a half-mile in 44.60 seconds, then drew away through the stretch to score by 3 1/2 lengths over the fast-finishing Best on Tap in 1:14.60.

AUBURN, Wash. - During and Buddy Gil head a list of 32 handicap horses nominated for the Grade 3 Longacres Mile, to be run for a purse of $250,000 on Aug. 22 at Emerald Downs.

During, a winner of three Grade 2 stakes for trainer Bob Baffert, is coming off a creditable third to Choctaw Nation and Pleasantly Perfect in the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar on Aug. 1. Buddy Gil, who won last season's Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby for trainer Jeff Mullins, finished a troubled fifth to Statement last time out in the Wickerr Handicap on turf at Del Mar on July 31.

After setting a quick pace in Saturday night's Grade 3, $600,000 West Virginia Derby, Britt's Jules might get an equipment makeover for the Grade 2, $500,000 Super Derby next month at Louisiana Downs.

Co-owner and trainer Eric Guillot plans to work Britt's Jules without blinkers, and might remove them from the colt for the Super Derby, which will be run on Sept. 25.

"We'll see if we can get him to relax a little bit," said Guillot.