AUBURN, Wash. - "I like this race," said trainer Dave Forster after Monday's renewal of the $60,000 Belle Roberts Handicap at Emerald Downs, and why wouldn't he?

New Jersey racing fans will miss a chance to see a two-time former European champion in her comeback race at The Meadowlands after trainer Michael Dickinson scratched Preseli from the Thursday night feature.

A competitive field of seven is still scheduled to go to post in the one-mile turf allowance, but the defection of Preseli robs the $50,000 race of some of its intrigue, especially considering Dickinson's plan to enter the 4-year-old filly in some of the fall's best races.

The John Bassett-trained pair of Ausual Suspect and Tres Seis took the top two spots in the Grade 1 $1,954,649 All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs on Monday afternoon.

The only other trainer to saddle the first- and second-place finishers in the All American Futurity was Jack Brooks in 1982.

DEL MAR, Calif. - In a race filled with horses with fancy pedigrees and heralding from barns that race throughout the world, it was the plucky California-bred Romanceishope who found his consistency and tenacity rewarded in Monday's Grade 2, $300,000 Del Mar Derby.

Romanceishope rallied boldly in the final quarter-mile to reel in Indygo Shiner, who had burst clear turning for home, and prevail by one length. Indygo Shiner finished a neck in front of third-place Blue Steller, one of several horses who encountered trouble in a roughly run race.

BENSALEM, Pa. - First, he displayed his studdish tendencies. Then, he flashed his championship form.

Macho Uno, in just his second start of the year, soared past Unbridled Elaine and Touch Tone in deep stretch with hardly any encouragement from jockey Gary Stevens to win Monday's Grade 3, $500,000 Pennsylvania Derby by 1 1/2 lengths. Unbridled Elaine, the first filly to run in the 23-year history of this race, finished second, a half-length ahead of pacesetting Touch Tone.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - John Velazquez became the first jockey in the 133-year history of Saratoga Racecourse to win six races on a single program when he drove Starine through near the hedge for a convincing 5 1/4-length victory over Babae in Monday's $500,000 Diana Handicap. The Grade 2 Diana was the highlight of the final Mcard of the 2001 Saratoga meeting.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N .Y. - Saratoga's record-breaking 2001 season ended with total attendance for the meet topping one million for the first time in the 133-year history of the track.

Despite winning six races on the final day, John Velazquez came out three short in the race for the jockey title with Jerry Bailey capturing his third straight and seventh overall crown with 55 victories. Bill Mott won his eighth training title in the last 10 years, saddling 22 winners, the second-highest total in track history.

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan - Jockey Tim Moccasin ran his winning streak at Marquis Downs to a North American record 14 Saturday before finally losing.

Moccasin won the first three races, giving him 13 straight, before his mount in Saturday's fourth race was scratched, then came back to win the fifth race on Intricate Stitch by 11 1/4 lengths for number 14. But he then finished fourth with Miss Canuck in the Prairieland Handicap to end the streak.

Monmouth Park, which closed on Sunday after 72 live days of racing, posted a 10 percent increase in average attendance compared with last year, to 10,757 a day. The average was its highest since 1985, when it was 11,478.

The track set a record for a single program on Aug. 5 when 47,127 people turned out to watch Point Given race in the Haskell Invitational, breaking the mark of 43,591 set in 1962.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Monday's America's Pick 4 wager hit a snag when bettors with winning tickets were unable to cash for almost an hour afterthe final leg in the bet had been made official.

Hubbed at Arlington Park this year, the pick four payoff was held up because "money didn't come in from all the sites properly," according to Jack Lisowski, mutuels manager at Arlington. The site in question, according to Lisowski, was The Meadowlands. "We were verifying that the pools closed on time," said Lisowski.