ALTOONA, Iowa - Saturday evening's co-feature at Prairie Meadows was an invitational for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses at 440 yards, but few people got to see the race.

Special Referral flipped after the field was loaded in the gate, necessitating a late scratch, and the remainder of the field was backed out of the gate. The track's television crew apparently was unaware that the runners were being reloaded into the gate and failed to record the race, so fans at simulcast outlets, as well as ontrack patrons watching on TV, could not see the race.

Hallowed Dreams, a winner of 23 of 24 races, is expected to make her first start back since undergoing minor surgery in the $50,000 Monique Rene Handicap at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La., on Sunday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Larry Attard will have mixed emotions when he steps up to the podium at the induction ceremonies for the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame here Thursday.

The 49-year-old Attard will be justifiably proud of the distinguished 25-year riding career for which he is being honored. But he will always feel a tinge of regret about the premature end to his days in the saddle, brought about by a series of concussions that forced him to give up his chosen profession.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Former rider Larry Attard, Awesome Again, Runaway Groom, and the late Jack Hardy, an owner-breeder and racetrack operator, will be inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in the Post Parade Court at Woodbine on Thursday.

The inductees, who were chosen by a committee of voters from a list provided by a nominating committee, were announced here June 22. Julie Krone, who was inducted into the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs last year, will speak at the ceremony, which will begin at 11:45 a.m.

AUBURN, Wash. - Iggy Puglisi won Sunday's $250,000 Longacres Mile aboard Irisheyesareflying, but it was Hector Ventura Jr., who finished second aboard Handy N Bold, who shaped the race.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The sharp training pattern that Point Given had displayed in the past two weeks continued Monday morning at Del Mar, when he worked a brilliant five furlongs to solidify his starting status in Saturday's $1 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga.

DEL MAR, Calif. - High Demand seeks his fifth straight victory in Wednesday's featured $65,000 allowance race at Del Mar, but he will have to catch the fleet L'effaceur, who appears to be the controlling speed in the one-mile turf race.

The feature, which goes as the third on an eight-race card, kicks off the penultimate week of racing at Del Mar, which closes two weeks from Wednesday, on Sept. 5. Six were entered in the race

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Any trainer will tell you that the best-laid plans often go awry in this business.

Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin knows this first-hand with Bakhoor, who could be a slight choice in Wednesday's $150,000 Albany, the final leg of the Big Apple Triple for 3-year-old New York-breds at Saratoga.

An overflow field of 13 entered the 1 1/8-mile Albany, but only 12 will be permitted to run.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Victory Ride, the Test winner, underwent successful surgery on Sunday to repair her broken right foreleg, and her connections held out hope that the 3-year-old filly could return to the races sometime next year.

Dr. Larry Bramlage inserted two screws to repair Victory Ride's right front cannon bone, and she returned to trainer Rusty Arnold's Saratoga barn around noon on Monday. Arnold said that Victory Ride would be re-examined in 60 days, at which time a determination on her future would be made.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Although he probably could have floated cross-country, trainer Bobby Frankel left Saratoga Monday morning to catch a plane back to San Diego to check on his California string at Del Mar.

"I got up at 3 a.m. to pack so I'll be having some good dreams on the way home," a sleepy-eyed Frankel said before leaving.