ELMONT, N.Y. - After running into division leaders Flute and Fleet Renee on their best days, it was finally time for Exogenous to put her best foot forward in Saturday's Grade 1 Gazelle Handicap at Belmont Park.

Equipped with blinkers for the first time, Exogenous ran the best race of her career Saturday to take the $250,000 Gazelle Handicap by 3 1/2 lengths over longshot Two Item Limit, who nosed out 3-5 favorite Fleet Renee for second.

Completing the order of finish were Transcendental, Starrer, Caressing, Real Cozzy, and Indy Pick.

MIAMI - Trainer Scott Lake, once again an Eclipse Award contender with nearly 300 victories to his credit this year, has his sights set on the $400,000 In Reality Stakes with a pair of promising 2-year-olds who are eligible to the rich finale of the Florida Stallion Series at Calder on Oct. 13.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Two graded stakes winners and a graded stakes-placed horse will be among six 3-year-olds in the $36,000 allowance feature at 1 1/16 miles on the turf here Monday.

Hoovergetthekeys has won two Grade 3 races on dirt this year, while Sir Alfred captured the Grade 3 Ascot Handicap over the turf here, and Sea to See has been second, third, or fourth in four consecutive stakes, including a close fourth in the Grade 3 Will Rogers at Hollywood Park and a third in the Ascot.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Jockey Shane Sellers said Saturday that a comeback he launched at Arlington last month - and perhaps his career - was over for now, and that he was returning to his home in Louisville to have his injured knee evaluated by his doctor.

"Maybe it's time to call it quits, but I hope not," Sellers said.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - When jockey Tyler Gaskin won four races on the Aug. 26 card at Fort Erie it increased his number of career victories to a grand total of 15.

Gaskin had won only one race when the season began here April 28, but waived his apprentice allowance and was granted a regular license to ride by the Ontario Racing Commission.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - No trainer has sent out more live runners in the short history of the Atto Mile than Neil Drysdale.

Drysdale won the 1998 Mile with Labeeb, and an errant whip cost him the victory in 1999, when the hard-luck Hawksley Hill was disqualified from first and placed fourth.

Drysdale will saddle Irish Prize, one of the favorites in Sunday's fifth running of the Grade 1 turf race at Woodbine. A field of 14 will divvy up a

$1 million purse in the race, which is one of three stakes on the quality card, along with the Summer and Canadian.

ELMONT, N.Y. - With few Grade 1 opportunities for 3-year-old fillies on turf, and with no dominant horse in the division, it came as no surprise that 14 were entered for Sunday's $250,000 Garden City Breeders' Cup Handicap at Belmont Park.

Only 10 will be permitted to run in the Garden City, run at nine furlongs on the inner turf course.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - American shippers Louve Mysterieuse and Miesque's Approval should be tough in Sunday's supporting features at Woodbine, the Grade 2 Canadian Handicap and the

Grade 2 Summer Stakes.

Louve Mysterieuse ships in from California for the $235,000 Canadian, a 1 1/8-mile turf event for fillies and mares. A French import, Louve Mysterieuse hasn't been worse than fourth in six starts this year for trainer Neil Drysdale, who sent her out to win an optional claimer at Santa Anita in February.

POMONA, Calif. - Few attractions of the Los Angeles County Fair are more reliable than Feverish, a 6-year-old mare who returns Sunday to one of her favorite stomping grounds - the five-eighths-mile oval of Fairplex Park.

"She's won three of four there, and was second the other time," trainer Dan Hendricks said. "Put it this way, we're not experimenting."

EDMONTON, Alberta - Alberta's version of the World Thoroughbred Championships, the annual Fall Classic Day at Northlands on Sept. 22, invariably settles the season's divisional races.

However, there already seems to be no doubt about the identities of the province's 2-year-old champions.

Trainer Sid Gray clinched the juvenile colt/gelding honors when he sent out Dance Me Free to win his third consecutive stakes.