GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - XpressBet, a national account wagering system operated by Magna Entertainment, began accepting bets on Lone Star Park races Friday. Lone Star is the latest track to be purchased by Magna in a deal that closed

Oct. 23.

Television Games Network has been taking account wagers on Lone Star races since the network was launched in 1999, but when the track's current Quarter Horse meet ends on Nov. 30, TVG will no longer be allowed to accept bets on Lone Star races.

Thoroughbred racing returns to Lone Star in April.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Over the last 18 months, I Love Silver has chased Point Given, Mizzen Mast, and Disturbingthepeace when all were in the best form of their careers.

For once, trainer Dean Greenman would like to see I Love Silver start in a stakes without facing a top-class runner. The opportunity could come in Sunday's $100,000 Morvich Handicap at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Garrett Gomez, who has not ridden since Oct. 20, said on Friday that he is taking November off for personal reasons and plans to return to riding at Hollywood Park in December.

Gomez, who has won nine races from 56 mounts at the current Oak Tree meeting, said he plans to spend time with his family. He declined to discuss the reason for his absence.

"It's more important to be with my family right now than work," Gomez said. "I could go back this week, but I'm not going to. My family gets turned down a lot."

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Last year, Todd Pletcher won the Grade 3 Tempted with the favorite, Smok'n Frolic. This year Pletcher again has the Tempted favorite, Chimichurri.

Chimichurri is among eight 2-year-old fillies entered in the $100,000-added Tempted, a mile dirt race Sunday at Aqueduct.

Chimichurri, a daughter of hot freshman sire Elusive Quality, has won 2 of 4 starts, scoring easy victories in a maiden at Saratoga and the Jersey Jumper Stakes at The Meadowlands.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Rob O'Connor II was enduring a nightmare of a year until he found blessed relief. O'Connor finally won a horse race, his first of the year from 32 starters, granting him a reprieve from what he called "a horrible streak."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The E.P. Taylor turf course, the scene of some of Woodbine's greatest moments, will go into hibernation following Sunday's program.

But first there is the not-so-small matter of a Sunday stakes doubleheader, the Labeeb and River Memories, to give the course a rousing send-off.

Both the Labeeb, for 3-year-olds and upward, and the River Memories, for fillies and mares, are overnight stakes contested over one mile. Both have proved to be very popular, attracting the maximum 14 entrants, plus three horses on the also-eligible list for the Labeeb.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - All eyes will be on Mulrainy at Woodbine on Sunday, when she stakes her claim for the Sovereign Award as this year's champion 3-year-old filly in the $165,750 Jammed Lovely Stakes.

Mulrainy will try to notch her third stakes of the year in the seven-furlong race, which has lured eight other Canadian-breds. There are also two one-mile grass stakes on the 10-race card, the Labeeb and River Memories.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Chris Tuttle is on the verge of becoming only the second trainer to surpass $1 million in purse earnings at Fort Erie in a single season. Layne Giliforte, the track's leading trainer, reached that plateau slightly more than a month ago.

Heading into Saturday's card, Tuttle's earnings stood at $938,344.

"I've got the last two weeks of the season to hit the $1 million mark," said Tuttle. "That's my goal and that's what I'm aiming for. Then, when the meet ends [Nov. 12], I'm going to race at Cleveland for about a month."

MIAMI, Fla. - Super Fuse, the top juvenile sprinter on the grounds with three victories in four career starts, is expected to make his next appearance in Aqueduct's $75,000 Huntington Stakes on Nov. 17.

Super Fuse has earned 99 Beyer Speed Figures for two of his three victories, including his last start, an easy 4 1/4-length triumph in the Birdonthewire Stakes here Oct. 12. A son of Lite the Fuse, Super Fuse's only setback came following a poor start in Delaware's NATC Futurity.

PORTLAND, Ore. - On the face of it, trainer Debbie Van Horne's recent trip to Southern California was pretty much a bust. Van Horne took 2-year-old Knightsbridge Road to Santa Anita for the six-furlong Sunny Slope Stakes on Oct. 19, but he was used up chasing the torrid pace of eventual winner Only the Best and virtually eased in the stretch, finishing last.