DEL MAR, Calif. - Trainer Mark Glatt was fined $1,500 on Monday and suspended for 15 days, beginning Saturday, for violations of California Horse Racing Board rules related to contraband, medication, and labeling of medications, Del Mar's board of stewards said in a ruling.

The stewards - Ingrid Fermin, David Samuel, and George Slender - declined to elaborate on the ruling, not even the specifics of the charges or the date when they allegedly occurred. "We've been instructed not to say anything, pending an appeal," Slender said.

Despite ontrack handle being down 10 percent in comparison to 2002 figures, all-sources wagering was up a whopping 27 percent at the 41-day Ellis Park meet that ended Monday, according to figures released by the Henderson, Ky., track.

Daily ontrack handle averaged only $348,418, but that figure was more than offset by the average handle from outside sources. All-sources handle averaged a little over $3,556,000 per day.

AUBURN, Wash. - All N the Game seems nicely spotted to win his third straight at Emerald Downs on Thursday, when he takes on eight other $16,000 3-year-olds in the featured seventh race.

All N the Game, a son of Game Plan from the barn of trainer Dan Markle, graduated over modest $10,000 maidens when stretched out to 1 1/16 miles on July 31, then came back on Aug. 14 to defeat $16,000 winners with a mile in 1:37.80. Jockey Gary Baze was up for both of those wins, and Baze gets off two other contenders to retain the mount at 121 pounds.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Monmouth Park moves into the extended portion of the season Thursday afternoon after a two-day break to regroup from the Labor Day weekend.

Monmouth traditionally runs a summer meet from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day. This year, the Monmouth meet doesn't end until Sept. 28, with the return of Thoroughbred racing at The Meadowlands Racetrack delayed until Oct. 2.

Monmouth last ran an expanded season in 1975 when the meet concluded Oct. 4.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Gone to Party has eight rivals on Thursday in a $40,000 optional claimer for 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs. But if Gone to Party is as good as trainer Jerry Hollendorfer and jockey Russell Baze hope she is, her opponents are running for second.

Gone to Party, a John Franks homebred, looked like a sure thing at 4-5 in her Aug. 13 debut at the Bay Meadows Fair. She came into the race with a series of un-Hollendorfer-like works. She had a 46.60-second half-mile bullet, a 1:11.20 six-furlong drill, and five-furlong works of 59 and 58.60 from the gate.

CHICAGO - Take Charge Lady, smashing winner of the Arlington Matron Handicap here Monday, was due to head back to trainer Kenny McPeek's home base at Churchill Downs on Wednesday.

Tuesday, Take Charge Lady could take things easy in McPeek's Arlington barn - not that she really needed much rest. Take Charge Lady won the Grade 3 Matron by more than 10 lengths, and only rarely does a horse win so easily.

What's more, jockey Shane Sellers said Take Charge Lady won despite disliking Arlington's muddy main track.

CHICAGO - Whatever else the Dare to Dream Stable may have gotten, it surely has found a crack starter-allowance horse.

The Dare to Dream partnership purchased Nicole's Dream shortly after she finished third on Aug. 2 in the $50,000 Trenton Stakes at Monmouth. But stakes racing is a far cry from where Nicole's Dream began this season.

MIAMI - Two down and one to go.

That's the rallying cry in the barns of trainers Bill White and Manny Azpurua after their undefeated 2-year-olds French Village and Sir Oscar, respectively, won Saturday's Susan's Girl and Affirmed divisions of the Florida Stallion Stakes.

The two juveniles will have a chance to sweep their respective divisions in the $400,000 My Dear Girl and In Reality stakes Oct. 11.

Fans who wagered on Lincoln Center in the 12th race at Louisiana Downs on Saturday had a few anxious moments in the stretch, but in the end everything worked out: The bettors got paid, and the stewards, after talking to jockey Carlos Gonzalez, determined that he acted properly aboard Lincoln Center, who won by a nose.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Because Russell Baze kept his cool and three other jockeys reacted quickly and professionally, none were injured in a spill in Saturday's first race at Bay Meadows.

Russell Baze was aboard favored Court Recorder and was getting a perfect stalking trip. He was moving up nearing the quarter pole when his mount suffered a fatal injury.

Until track officials get a necropsy report, the precise injury will not be known, but both of Court Recorder's hind legs locked up as if the horse had broken his back, pelvis, or hips.