ELMONT, N.Y. - Just a week after winning the Bergen County Stakes at The Meadowlands, City Zip was back on the Belmont Park work tab Monday morning preparing for his next engagement.

City Zip drilled five furlongs in 1:01.37 over Belmont's training track in preparation for the $150,000, Grade 2 Kentucky Cup Sprint at Turfway Park on Sept. 22. Trainer Linda Rice said she moved City Zip's workout up to Monday because she was flying that night to Lexington to attend the Keeneland yearling sales and wanted to see him train.

A pair of five-furlong races - one on the main track for 2-year-old maiden fillies and one on the grass for filly and mare allowance runners - are part of a nine-race card at The Meadowlands on Wednesday evening.

Eight 2-year-old fillies entered the fifth race, which carries the largest purse on the program, $46,000. Five of the runners will make their career debuts in this maiden race.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Like any trainer in the claiming game, Angel Montano always is looking to strike gold. This summer, he has.

Double Zero Seven, a 2-year-old colt Montano and owner Larry Telle claimed for $25,000 earlier this summer, has won four straight races, a streak that includes consecutive stakes scores at Arlington. Last Saturday, the colt won the $75,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes here to establish himself as the top 2-year-old in Chicago.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Numerous Times, winner of Sunday's Atto Mile at Woodbine, is headed for the Breeders' Cup Mile, trainer Sid Attard confirmed Monday.

Affirmed Success, Quiet Resolve, and Irish Prize, the second- through fourth-place finishers in the race, and sixth-place Brahms also are slated to run in the World Thoroughbred Championships.

Affirmed Success, beaten a nose by Numerous Times Sunday, was headed back to his home base at Belmont Monday morning.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Stronach Stable had a stellar day on Sunday at Woodbine, winning four races with three different trainers, including the Grade 2 Canadian Handicap with Diadella.

The powerful outfit could continue its winning ways when it sends out Golden Coronain in Wednesday's allowance feature, the prep for the Sept. 29 Wonder Where Stakes.

Five other 3-year-old fillies were entered to run about 1 1/8 miles on the turf - Dark Ending, Torrantula, Night Edition, Rare Vision, and My Real Quiet Lady. Foxy Connection and Madame Red were entered for the main track only.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Hyder, who won in a similar spot during the fair season, looks tough to beat in Wednesday's $34,000 allowance-optional claiming feature at Bay Meadows.

Hyder, a $16,000 claim by trainer R.L. Martin nearly a year ago, won at this second allowance level in January, and has been racing well at the same level all summer by going in for the optional claiming price of $40,000. In five recent starts at the level, he has two seconds, a third, and a fourth in addition to his recent win.

POMONA, Calif. - Speed handicappers will have trouble getting past Beaumes de Venise on Wednesday at Fairplex Park.

Fresh from earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 107 in a classified sprint at Del Mar, Beaumes de Venise will heavily favored over course specialist The Morris Monroe in the $50,000 Aprisa Handicap.

A field of six entered the six-furlong Aprisa, the first of two sprints for older horses at the 18-day Los Angeles County Fair meet. The 6 1/2-furlong Governor's Cup Handicap will be run closing day, Sept. 24.

POMONA, Calif. - Jockey Iggy Puglisi was not seriously injured Saturday when he was unseated on the first turn of the Phil D. Shepherd Stakes at Fairplex Park, but a sore back prevented him from riding all but one of his six scheduled mounts Sunday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland Race Course hopes to link several of its upcoming major stakes in multirace wagers with events from other major jurisdictions, a track official said Monday at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Kentucky Racing Commission.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Unbeaten local runner Numerous Times prevailed in a three-way win photo with favored Affirmed Success and Quiet Resolve while setting a course record in the Grade 1, $1 million Atto Mile at Woodbine on Sunday.

With Patrick Husbands riding, Numerous Times won the one-mile turf event by a nose over Affirmed Success and Jerry Bailey. Quiet Resolve, who won the '99 Mile by disqualification, was another nose back under Todd Kabel, who unsuccessfully claimed foul on the winner for interference early in the stretch.