SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Patrick Biancone had a pleasant, but difficult choice to make. Should he run Saratoga Special winner Zavata or Sanford hero Whywhywhy in Saturday's Grade 1 Hopeful at Saratoga?

Biancone worked both his promising juveniles shortly after the renovation break here Monday morning, then as expected tabbed Zavata for the seven-furlong Hopeful while opting to save Whywhywhy for the Grade 1 Futurity at Belmont on Sept. 15.

Both Zavata and Whywhywhy worked five furlongs in 1:00 although they did not work in company.

EDMONTON, Alberta - The 73rd running of the $150,000 Canadian Derby at Northlands Park had everything you could ask for. With a large field, no clear favorite, and beautiful weather, the biggest crowd in recent memory watched as Lady Shari become just the third filly in history to win the biggest race of the year in Alberta.

CHICAGO - For a horse that has finished seventh, fifth, fourth, and fifth in his last four races, Bahroba appears strangely formidable in Arlington's featured seventh race on Wednesday.

It's all a matter of class. Bahroba lost to such tough turf horses as Falcon Flight, Cetewayo, Kappa King, and Private Son in his last two starts, both graded stakes, but Wednesday he's in against fourth-level allowance or $75,000 claiming horses. When the real running starts this time, Bahroba should sense the difference.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Bosque Redondo, who fractured the sesamoid bones in his right front ankle at the finish of Sunday's Pacific Classic at Del Mar, was scheduled to undergo surgery on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning in an attempt to save him for stud duty.

Sam Bradley, one of the veterinarians who attended to Bosque Redondo following his injury, said on Monday morning that horses with the type of injury suffered by Bosque Redondo have a "60-40" chance of survival.

DEL MAR, Calif. ? Came Home, who has dominated 3-year-old racing on the West Coast this year, pulled an upset in Sunday's $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar, in which his entrymate Bosque Redondo was injured.

Came Home ($23) beat 13 others including War Emblem, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner. The 6-5 favorite, War Emblem led briefly in early stretch but finished sixth.

Came Home ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:01.45 for his sixth stakes win of 2002, all in California. Trained by Paco Gonzalez, Came Home's only loss this year was a sixth in the Kentucky Derby.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Duplicating her sterling performance in last year's Ballerina, Shine Again persevered through the stretch under Jean-Luc Samyn to run down the classy duo of Raging Fever and Mandy's Gold and win the Grade 1, $250,000 Ballerina Handicap by a half-length. Raging Fever, the 6-5 favorite, was second, 1 1/4 lengths ahead of Mandy's Gold.

Shine Again, trained by Allen Jerkens, became the first repeat winner of the Ballerina in the 24-year history of the race.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Dublino held off a late surge from Megahertz to win an epic running of the $300,000 Del Mar Oaks on Saturday. At the finish, a scant nose separated the two top

3-year-old turf fillies in California.

For Dublino, the victory avenged a disqualification in the American Oaks at Hollywood Park last month when she was demoted from first to second for interfering with runner-up Megahertz in the stretch.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Medaglia d'Oro overcame the only obstacle his trainer thought he had by handling a sloppy track, then turned back the late run of Repent to win Saturday's $1 million Travers Stakes by a half-length on a raw, rainy day at Saratoga.

Repent, making his first start off a 140-day layoff, ran a strong race to be second, 7 1/2 lengths ahead of Nothing Flat.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. - The Minnesota Festival of Champions featured all statebred runners.

o Maywood's Jack ($16.20) made the most of an inside bias to win the Northern Lights Futurity.

o She's Scrumpy ($13) wrested command from pacesetting Traffic Belle to win the Northern Lights Debutante by 1 1/2 lengths.

o J. P. Jet ($2.80) lived up to his odds-on billing when he captured the Minnesota Classic Championship by 2 3/4 lengths over Ashar.

o Lakeville ($7.60) took the Minnesota Distaff Classic Championship by a neck over Aashu.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Wild Snitch ($3.60) won the Grade 3, $100,000 Sorority by nearly seven lengths in only her second career start.

The victory by Wild Snitch gave trainer Ben Perkins Jr. his third consecutive Sorority win. He is the first trainer to win three straight runnings in the race's 46-year history.

Advancing Storm, the 8-5 second choice, was pulled up and was later discovered to have fractured her right front knee. She was euthanized.