ELMONT, N.Y. - On a special Monday card at Belmont Park, a first-level allowance race for turf runners serves as the feature of the nine-race program.

Monday is normally a dark day, but the New York Racing Association opted to close its doors instead on Wednesday in honor of the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Ten 3-year-olds and older males entered the eighth race, which has a $48,000 purse and will be run at 1 3/8 miles on the inner turf. With a forecast for dry and warm weather, the condition of the turf figures to be firm.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - His odds just kept falling lower and lower - 6-5 at post time - and then Sharp Impact showed why. Finishing resolutely under jockey Ray Sibille, Sharp Impact beat the Illinois-bred Wiggins by three-quarters of a length Saturday in the $75,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes at Arlington Park.

DEL MAR, Calif. - There are likely to be only three opponents facing trainer Bob Baffert's five starters in Wednesday's $250,000 Del Mar Futurity.

Only Outta Here, a stakes-placed maiden, and maiden race winners Gentlemen's Club and Total Advantage will attempt to dethrone Baffert, who is seeking his seventh consecutive win in the seven-furlong Futurity.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Russell Baze, the nation's leading rider in races won, is looking forward to Monday's seventh race at Bay Meadows.

He will be aboard Hippogator in a 5 1/2-furlong race as the 2-year-old filly makes her debut for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.

Baze, who still works harder than almost any other rider in northern California, has worked Hippogator. He's not predicting victory, but he likes the way Hippogator, a daughter of Dixieland Band out of the stakes-winning Sunshine Forever mare Gastronomical, has worked.

MIAMI - Elvi Gamble and Flying Birdie have been two of the fastest female turf horses on the Calder grounds this summer. But both turned in disappointing performances in the Irish Vol Handicap here last month, and they will have to prove themselves again in Monday's $40,000 Reign Dance Handicap.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Forever Partners, who finished second as the favorite in the Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes on Aug. 30, has suffered a slab fracture of her right knee and will be retired, trainer Tony Dutrow said Saturday.

In the first three starts of her career, Showlady had never raced less than nine furlongs. Friday night at The Meadowlands, she was asked to shorten up slightly for her stakes debut in the $200,000 Boiling Springs Breeders' Cup Handicap.

As it turned out, 1 1/16 miles proved just long enough for Showlady to catch Dreamers Glory.

Showlady ($10.60), under a confident ride by Richard Migliore, ran down 20-1 shot Dreamers Glory in deep stretch to win the Grade 3 stakes by a head.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - American shippers swept three of the first four positions in the first division of the Grade 3 Natalama Stakes at Woodbine, as One and Twenty wore down local maiden Swift of Flight in deep stretch to win by 1 3/4 lengths.

Favored Sand Springs edged Little Miss Pamela for third in the one-mile grass race for 2-year-old fillies. The time was 1:35.03.

Todd Kabel, Woodbine's hottest rider, felt One and Twenty displayed lots of gumption in the stretch of the $179,200 race.

MIAMI - Redoubled Miss outgamed Stormy Frolic by a head following a stretch-long battle in the $50,000 Judy's Red Shoes Stakes at Calder.

Stormy Frolic set a leisurely pace of 24.32 and 48.09 seconds in the 1 1/16-mile stakes for 3-year-old fillies. Redoubled Miss briefly dueled with Stormy Frolic, the 3-2 favorite, around the opening bend before jockey M.R. Cruz decided to ease off the leader entering the backstretch.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - His odds just kept falling lower and lower - 6-5 at post time - and then Sharp Impact showed why. Finishing resolutely under jockey Ray Sibille, Sharp Impact beat the Illinois-bred Wiggins by three-quarters of a length in the $75,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes.