Jockey Terry Thompson broke his right leg in a three-horse spill in Tuesday's second race at Prairie Meadows.

The incident occurred when pacesetter Soriano Cat, with jockey Kelly Murray aboard, broke down entering the turn of six-furlong race.

Thompson and his mount, Brilliant Beau, fell over the top of Soriano Cat, sending Thompson to the ground. Precocious Builder and jockey R.D. Williams were unable to avoid the fallen horses and also went down, with Precocious Builder appearing to clip Thompson as he fell.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Pace may be the deciding factor in Thursday's feature race at the Alameda County Fair, a six-furlong, first-level allowance for 3-year-old fillies.

Four of the six runners can run the opening half-mile in 44 seconds and change, which, on the surface, seems to set things up for an off-the-pace runner.

Tequila Lana will likely be last early and could be in front at the wire if a heated pace battle erupts.

But as her trainer Howard Belvoir points out, "Everybody reads the Form. If there's that much speed, somebody may take off the pace."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Mobil will try to regroup following a lackluster performance in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap in Thursday's Grade 3, $217,200 Dominion Day Handicap at Woodbine.

The 1 1/4-mile Dominion Day is the feature on the 10-race Canada Day card, which also includes the $159,900 Achievement Handicap, a six-furlong sprint for Canadian-foaled 3-year-olds.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Lord Nelson will face stiff opposition when he tries to win the Grade 3, $100,000 Lieutenant Governors' for the third straight year on Thursday at Hastings. Lord Nelson, who has been the best horse at Hastings for the past three years, will have his hands full with the speedy and classy Roscoe Pito breaking from the rail. The 123-pound high weight also will have to deal with two California shippers, Yougottawanna and Royal Place.

AUBURN, Wash. - Stregawood will attempt to make it four wins in a row on Thursday at Emerald Downs when he takes on a half-dozen others at a mile in the latest leg of the Stanislaw Ashbaugh Starter Series, which offers enhanced purses for $3,200 starter allowance company.

Stregawood, a late-running son of Kirkwood who races for Fred Hepton and Mike Krause, has run off route wins in $3,200, $4,000 and $3,200 starter allowance company in his last three outings. In each of those wins, rider Nate Chaves brought Stregawood from far back to score going away.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Alberta Derby winner Fly Esteem hopes to celebrate Canada Day by winning his second successive stakes in the $40,000 Western Canada Handicap for 3-year-olds at Northlands Park on Thursday.

Fly Esteem drops back from the 1 1/16-mile Alberta Derby distance to 6 1/2 furlongs here, and takes on seven rivals. He will break from post 7.

Carrying top weight of 120 pounds, including jockey Desmond Bryan, Fly Esteem will bid for his third victory of the year.

CHICAGO - Ballingarry, traveling with two companions, arrived in Chicago on Tuesday morning to make a run at his second straight win in the Grade 3 Stars and Stripes Handicap at Arlington Park.

The companions aren't just window dressing. One, Johnny Red Kerr, is bound for a maiden race, but the other, Toasted, might be the horse to beat Saturday in the Grade 2 Arlington Classic, first leg of Arlington's Mid-America Triple for 3-year-old grass horses.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - In Hand will be looking for a lively pace in the Grade 1, $750,000 United Nations Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth Park.

In Hand, trained by Phil Oliver, is a drop-back closer who does his best running in the lane. He has won two of his last three races and showed a big rally even in the defeat. In Hand rallied from 13 lengths off the pace to miss by only a neck in an allowance race at Keeneland.

He should love the U.N. distance - 1 3/8 miles on the turf - but he might not care for the competition.

Any time a horse comes back from an injury, there can be mental and physical questions surrounding his competitive abilities. But so far, so good for Beau's Town.

He came out of his runner-up finish in the Grade 3 Aristides Breeders' Cup on June 19 at Churchill Downs in good order, and is headed next to Del Mar to run in the Grade 1, $250,000 Bing Crosby Breeders' Cup on July 25, said his owner, Dave Hulkewicz.

ALTOONA, Iowa - The Iowa Festival of Racing begins Thursday evening at Prairie Meadows with the $50,000 Prairie Gold Lassie and the $50,000 Prairie Gold Juvenile.

The Festival, which runs through Sunday, closing day of the Thoroughbred meeting here, features two stakes races per day with all but Thursday's races carrying six-figure purses. The highlight of the Festival is Saturday's Grade 3, $300,000 Cornhusker Breeders' Cup Handicap.