Trainer Dan Hendricks suffered a spinal cord injury in a motorbike accident Wednesday and was in intensive care at a Riverside County, Calif., hospital on Thursday.

There is concern that the injury could leave Hendricks, 45, with paralysis to his legs, but his wife, Samantha, said the family is optimistic that he can make a full recovery.

"We won't know the extent of the injury and the prognosis for a while," she said. "There is a chance of paralysis. We have to wait and see. If there is a paralysis, it's only lower limbs. They said he could make a full recovery."

The three-day Tattersalls sale in Newmarket, England, posted new marks across the board when it ended Thursday, with 367 lots sold for a total of about $10,167,045, yielding an average price of about $27,704 and a median of about $15,540. In the local auction currency, the gross was 5,234,000 guineas, the average price was 14,262 guineas, and the median was 8,000 guineas - all records for the sale. . . .

The Kentucky Thoroughbred Association/Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders has elected its officers for the 2004-2005 term.

Trainer John Ward, Jr., will serve as president. Other officers elected were Don Robinson, vice president (KTA); Bill Landes III, vice president (KTOB); Robert Clay, secretary; Charles Nuckols III, treasurer; and Bill Thomason, Jr., assistant treasurer.

Racing steward Pam Berg, who single-handedly runs the , the home of 28 injured and retired racehorses in Northern California, is the 2004 Dogwood Dominion Award winner, W. Cothran "Cot" Campbell, president of Dogwood Stable announced Tuesday.

NEW YORK - When Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell signed a bill on Monday legalizing up to 61,000 slot machines in the state, he started the ball rolling on an enormous restructuring of the Northeast's gambling landscape.

The machines, which are expected to generate $3 billion each year while perhaps boosting purses at Philadelphia Park to $500,000 a day, will have impacts on casinos in neighboring states, on legislatures in states that do not yet have casinos, and on the racing industry.

Sound of Gold, a 6-year-old mare trained by Paul Pearson for owner-breeder Sandra Rasmussen who was named the 2003-2004 turf champion at Sam Houston Race Park, died Monday.

She had wired the field in Monday's Minnesota H.B.P.A Mile Stakes at Canterbury Park and was in the test barn when she bled internally and could not be revived. An autopsy is pending.

An unlikely coalition of interests opposed to expanding gambling in Michigan filed signatures with election officials on Monday, seeking to require voter approval for any additional gambling in the state.

* Gamut scored a a sharp victory in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, defeating Policy Maker by three lengths under Kieren Fallon in the $431,000, 1 1/2-mile contest.

* Trainer Andreas Schutz won his fifth German Derby on Sunday when the 5-1 Shirocco landed the $650,000, 1 1/2-mile classic at Hamburg by four lengths from Malinas.

* Fine Stormy ($20.80) won the $100,000 Charles Town Dash by a half-length over Not for Sam, with favored Anthony Soprano in third.

* Ready to Live ($3) stalked the early pace before finishing with a flourish to score a two-length victory in the Rebel Stakes at Louisiana Downs.

* Spring Kitten ($31.40) found another gear turning for home and wore down Our Mariah to win the 5 1/2-furlong Buckland Stakes at Colonial Downs by a neck.

* Living a Dream ($8.60) proved his two previous victories this year over Bulldog George were no fluke Saturday, scoring a six-length victory in the Seattle Slew Handicap on a sloppy track at Fairmount Park.

Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania signed a bill Monday to legalize 61,000 slot machines at 14 locations in the state, including seven racetracks. The bill had passed both houses of the state legislature over the weekend.

The legislation legalizes up to 5,000 slot machines at each of Pennsylvania's four existing racetracks and at three racetracks that have yet to be built. The passage of the bill will also be cited by slots supporters in neighboring states like Kentucky, Ohio, and Maryland as evidence that those states need legalized slots as well.