SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Macho Uno, equipped with blinkers, worked five furlongs in 1:00.21 Sunday morning at Saratoga as he begins preparation for his next start, which will come in the $500,000 Pennsylvania Derby at Philadelphia Park Sept. 3.

It was Macho Uno's first workout since finishing second in an allowance race here on opening day. In that race, Macho Uno, last year's 2-year-old champion, had to be saddled on the move in the paddock and acted up at the gate. In the race, he veered in and out during the stretch and got beat a nose by Wicked Will.

DEL MAR, Calif. - With his 3-year-olds going well on both turf and dirt and a sprinter who has already won a graded stakes this summer, trainer John Sadler will be busy in the second half of the Del Mar meeting.

Sadler has potential starters in both of this weekend's major races - Dr. Park in Saturday's $150,000 La Jolla Handicap for 3-year-olds on turf and Ceeband in Sunday's $150,000 Pat O'Brien Handicap for sprinters. On Sept. 1, Palmeiro, the winner of an allowance race on Saturday, will start in the El Cajon Stakes.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Gypsy Road, who just missed in his last start at Santa Rosa, heads a field of eight 3-year-olds in the feature Wednesday, opening day of the 2001 San Mateo County Fair meeting at Bay Meadows.

The 12-day stand will run through Monday, Aug. 20, with only one dark day, next Tuesday. Post time will be 1:15 every day except Fridays, when twilight racing will get under way at 6:45 p.m.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. - Matt Robertson looked as if he had dunked his arms in a bucket of water just before entering the winner's circle after the Claiming Crown Emerald.

Robertson, like virtually everyone else, was perspiring to an absurd degree. How cold does it get in Minnesota in the winter? Well, that's how hot it was Saturday.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - I'm Sentimental, one of the top horses in the barn of Tim Hills, died two weeks ago after suffering from an infection that has not been diagnosed.

I'm Sentimental, a 4-year-old by Out of Place out of Very Sentimental, was a versatile colt who could run on both dirt and turf. He came to the races as a 3-year-old, making only one start at that age here last summer. As a 4-year-old, I'm Sentimental, owned by Lawrence Foggle, came into his own.

When Dean Kutz breaks heavy favorite To the Test from the starting gate in the first race Wednesday at Ellis Park, nearly 18 months of frustration will end for him. Kutz has not ridden since beginning a battle with cancer in the winter of 2000.

"Watching races has been really tough on me," Kutz, 44, said last weekend at Canterbury Park in Minnesota, where he was the guest of honor at the third annual Claiming Crown series. "All it does is make me want to get back out there even more."

Pimlico Racecourse will substitute for its sister track, Laurel Park, when it opens on Wednesday for an abbreviated 13-day summer meet.

The Maryland Jockey Club, which owns Pimlico and Laurel, moved its summer meet to Pimlico in Baltimore after panes of glass enclosing the Laurel grandstand began mysteriously cracking earlier this summer. The MJC has yet to determine the cause of the damage, and Laurel's six-week fall meeting has also been moved to Pimlico while the problem is being examined.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Regardless of whether she starts on turf or dirt, Tranquility Lake is bound for the Breeders' Cup this fall at Belmont Park.

After Tranquility Lake upset Gourmet Girl in Sunday's $300,000 Clement Hirsch Handicap on the main track at Del Mar, Marty Wygod, who co-owns the 6-year-old with his wife, Pam, said the Breeders' Cup Distaff on dirt is a possibility as well as the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - A track record crowd of 47,127 witnessed one of the most exciting runnings of the Haskell in history, as Point Given overcame Touch Tone and Burning Roma to win the Grade 1 $1.5 million Haskell Invitational on Sunday at Monmouth Park.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - What a difference a year makes.

Last Aug. 5, jockey John Velazquez was involved in a spill in which he suffered a broken collarbone, forcing him to miss the remainder of the Saratoga meeting.

This Aug. 5, Sunday, Velazquez made history at the Spa, becoming just the sixth rider to win five races on one card. Velazquez went 5 for 7 on the day, including a last-to-first victory aboard Starine ($6.80) in the eighth, his final mount of the day.