POMONA, Calif. - The Los Angeles County Fair ended its 2001 meet on Monday with only a 2 percent loss in overall handle, despite the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 that led to cancellation of one day of the scheduled 18-day meet at Fairplex Park.

Overall handle was $104,203,615 for a 17-day meet, a daily average of more than $6.1 million. Ontrack handle fell 3 percent; intertrack wagering was down 5 percent; and out-of-state handle grew 4 percent. Ontrack attendance fell 2 percent to 121,497, an average of 76,146 per day.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Any concerns that this year's Canadian International would be lacking in European representation were dispelled when Mutamam, Daliapour, Zindabad, and Paolini checked in late Monday for Sunday's Grade 1, $1.5 million race.

Mutamam, Daliapour, and Zindabad flew in from London, while Paolini - accompanied by stablemate Abitara, who will run in Sunday's Grade 1, $500,000 E.P. Taylor - came from Frankfurt.

Owned by Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum and trained by Alec Stewart, Mutamam will be well supported in the Canadian Inter-

ARCADIA, Calif. - Until Sept. 11, trainer Eoin Harty planned to start two contenders in Grade 1 races Sept. 16 at Belmont Park - Imperial Gesture in the Matron and Essence of Dubai in the Futurity. But when those two races for 2-year-olds were canceled because of the terrorist attacks, he drafted a new campaign.

Justnowayofknowin', owned by Kenwood Racing, seems well spotted to earn the second win of his career in Thursday's featured seventh event at Bay Meadows.

The six-furlong allowance/optional claiming dash attracted a field of eight competing for the $32,000 purse.

One horse is making all the difference in the makeup of the Ohio Derby.

If Macho Uno runs, then only four or five 3-year-olds may oppose him Saturday in the $300,000 Ohio Derby, the Grade 2 race that highlights the annual racing season at Thistledown in the Cleveland suburb of North Randall.

But if trainer Joe Orseno decides not to ship Macho Uno from New York on Thursday, then as many as 10 or more could start in the 1 1/8-mile race.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Many autumns ago, the Oak Tree meet at Santa Anita marked the symbolic conclusion to a season of racing. But the game has changed.

Championships are now won and lost at the Breeders' Cup in late fall, forever changing the Oak Tree meet, which this year starts Wednesday at Santa Anita. Instead of finality, the 32-day meet provides transition. Instead of resolution, the meet generates expectations, realistic or otherwise.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Bruce Headley is not shy expressing his enthusiasm for California racing.

Asked on Monday how many Breeders' Cup races he expects California-based horses to win at Belmont Park on Oct. 27, Headley said: "How many do they got?"

There are eight Breeders' Cup races, which makes it extremely difficult if not impossible for one circuit to dominate a program that brings together many of the world's best Thoroughbreds.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Canadian Derby winner Fancy As and Hastings Park leading 3-year-old I'm Free head a list of 17 horses nominated to Saturday's Grade 2 $200,000 British Columbia Derby.

Also nominated and expected to run in the 1 1/8-mile race are Manitoba Derby winner Stage Classic and multiple stakes winner Diglett, who ran fourth as the favorite in the Emerald Downs Breeders' Cup Derby last out.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Saturday's Alberta Fall Classic series at Northlands Park was full of surprises, as only one of the seven stakes on the card was won by the favorite.

Leading a parade of upsetters was Robnroy, who at 18-1 did the unthinkable, overtaking Timely Ruckus down the lane and winning the $40,000 Red Diamond Express. Robnroy, a 5-year-old trained by Pam McDougall, came from five lengths off the pace and went four wide on the final turn to win his first stakes of the year and push his earnings past $150,000.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Tiznow, who remains on course for a defense of his Breeders' Cup Classic title at Belmont Park on Oct. 27, was more eager in a Monday morning workout at Santa Anita than trainer Jay Robbins or jockey Chris McCarron would have preferred.