ELMONT, N.Y. - A severe storm tore a fence down and knocked the power out at trainer Richard Schosberg's Long Island home Sunday. Schosberg hopes his 7-year-old gelding, Affirmed Success, has the same affect on six rivals in Wednesday's $100,000 Poker Handicap at Belmont Park.

ELMONT, N.Y. - A foot problem seemingly behind him, Peeping Tom looks to start a new winning streak while strengthening his position as the top sprinter in the East when he takes on five rivals in Wednesday's $150,000 Tom Fool Handicap at Belmont Park.

The Grade 2 Tom Fool, run at seven furlongs, is one of three stakes on a Fourth of July card highlighted by the Grade 1 Prioress and also includes the Grade 3 Poker Handicap.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Figuratively speaking, Candid Glen left Louisiana Downs a boy, and returns a man. After winning a pair of conditioned allowance races last meet, he went on to win two major turf stakes over the winter, and as a result will start as the highweight in the $100,000 Independence Breeders' Cup on Wednesday.

The 1 1/16-mile turf race is the highlight of a 10-race holiday card that starts at 1:45 p.m. Central.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Jerry Hollendorfer perennially finds his way into a group of the nation's elite trainers in terms of wins and money earned. And it should come as no surprise that three weeks into the long Arlington race meet, during his first summer in the Midwest, Hollendorfer has found his way to the top of the trainer standings here.

MIAMI - Mr. Livingston, whose promising career was halted by foot problems at 3, looks well-spotted to get back on the winning track when he faces nine rivals in Wednesday's $50,000 Americana Handicap at Calder.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Few horses have accumulated as many frequent flyer miles as Big Bambu, who ships in for Wednesday's $75,000 Regret Stakes for fillies and mares at six furlongs.

Big Bambu, based at Thistledown in Ohio, has run at eight different tracks in the Midwest and East in her last 10 races. And yet she shows no signs of jet lag, having finished in the money in all but one of her 12 lifetime starts.

"Her demeanor and disposition enables us to do that with her," trainer Alan Sobol said.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Bold Answer will be tough to handle if she gets her kind of course Wednesday in the $125,000 Walmac Lone Star Oaks at Lone Star Park.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Bonapaw heads a strong field of six sprinters Wednesday at Prairie Meadows in the six-furlong, $150,000 Iowa Sprint Handicap, which also includes two former winners of the race.

The Sprint Handicap is part of a special 10-race Fourth of July evening program at the track.

Prairie Meadows hit the jackpot six years ago, when the track was allowed to install slot machines. As a result, the track was saved from a bleak financial future, and purses for local horsemen steadily rose, from a daily average of an anemic $20,000 in 1994 to nearly $180,000 this year.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Bettors failed to solve the pick six at Hollywood Park on Sunday, leaving a record one-day carryover of $691,095 for a tricky program on Wednesday.

Because of the Fourth of July holiday and a two-day buildup, the track expects bettors to bet as much as $3 million into Wednesday's pick six.