DEL MAR, Calif. - The race for both Horse of the Year and the 3-year-old championship has taken on a decidedly different look in the aftermath of this past weekend, when victories by Came Home and Medaglia d'Oro, and a loss by War Emblem, put all three on virtually equal footing two months before the Breeders' Cup Classic.

MUSKEGON, Mich. - Terry Houghton, the leading rider at Great Lakes Downs who is currently second in the national rankings by victories, will be sidelined until at least this weekend as the result of a concussion he sustained during the seventh race at Great Lakes on Sunday evening.

Houghton was knocked out after his mount, Sounds Sunny, clipped heels and tossed him some distance forward. A trailing horse then hit him in the head, ripping his helmet away.

Bruanna extended her winning streak to five races by capturing Monday's $59,100 Veiled Look Stakes at Delaware Park.

The 4-year-old Bruanna, claimed by trainer Mike Gorham for $35,000 in mid-June, is undefeated since Anthony Black became her regular rider. Black said the filly is finally learning how to relax and ration her speed.

"They said she always had a lot of speed, but she would run and kind of stagger during the later part of races," Black said. "I guess as she has matured she has figured out that she can get a deep breath and relax."

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Jockey Edgar Prado took advantage of a soft turf course and even softer pace to guide Owsley to a one-length victory over Mot Juste in Monday's $113,500 Glens Falls Handicap.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The steadily improving Tradition Rocks, who soundly beat maidens in his last start here on Aug. 4, heads a field of first-level allowance horses in Wednesday's featured seventh race at Del Mar, in which five of the eight runners are coming off victories against maidens.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - It took This Guns for Hire seven starts to get his first victory, but trainer John Terranova still thought enough of him to nominate and seriously consider running him in Monday's Pennsylvania Derby.

But Terranova opted to take a more conservative route with 3-year-old This Guns for Hire, who will find the competition much easier taking on eight rivals going 1 1/8 miles under first-level allowance conditions in Wednesday's $48,000 feature at Saratoga.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Patrick Biancone had a pleasant, but difficult choice to make. Should he run Saratoga Special winner Zavata or Sanford hero Whywhywhy in Saturday's Grade 1 Hopeful at Saratoga?

Biancone worked both his promising juveniles shortly after the renovation break here Monday morning, then as expected tabbed Zavata for the seven-furlong Hopeful while opting to save Whywhywhy for the Grade 1 Futurity at Belmont on Sept. 15.

Both Zavata and Whywhywhy worked five furlongs in 1:00 although they did not work in company.

EDMONTON, Alberta - The 73rd running of the $150,000 Canadian Derby at Northlands Park had everything you could ask for. With a large field, no clear favorite, and beautiful weather, the biggest crowd in recent memory watched as Lady Shari become just the third filly in history to win the biggest race of the year in Alberta.

CHICAGO - For a horse that has finished seventh, fifth, fourth, and fifth in his last four races, Bahroba appears strangely formidable in Arlington's featured seventh race on Wednesday.

It's all a matter of class. Bahroba lost to such tough turf horses as Falcon Flight, Cetewayo, Kappa King, and Private Son in his last two starts, both graded stakes, but Wednesday he's in against fourth-level allowance or $75,000 claiming horses. When the real running starts this time, Bahroba should sense the difference.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Bosque Redondo, who fractured the sesamoid bones in his right front ankle at the finish of Sunday's Pacific Classic at Del Mar, was scheduled to undergo surgery on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning in an attempt to save him for stud duty.

Sam Bradley, one of the veterinarians who attended to Bosque Redondo following his injury, said on Monday morning that horses with the type of injury suffered by Bosque Redondo have a "60-40" chance of survival.