(Edited Santa Anita Park report)

ARCADIA, Calif. – Carlsbad, an unbeaten sensation in Arizona’s “Cactus League,” transferred her form to the big leagues Saturday when running away from her opposition in Santa Anita’s 24th running of the Grade 3, $100,000 Santa Paula Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at 6½ furlongs.

Lenny Vangilder
Fair Grounds

NEW ORLEANS, La. – Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots concluded its 137th season Sunday, a winter that provided a mixture of new and old. The “new” aspects of this Fair Grounds season included a leadership team overseeing its first winter Thoroughbred season in the Crescent City; the completion of a $35 million slot-machine gaming project, just in time for the start of the meet; a pre-Thanksgiving start to live racing for the first time…

Graham Ross
Fair Grounds

NEW ORLEANS, La. – James Spence’s Tensas Yucatan pressed the pace, took command approaching the lane and drew off for a 2 1/4-length victory in the $60,000 Red Camelia Stakes Sunday, the final stakes race of Fair Grounds’ 2008-09 season.

(Edited Gulfstream Park report)

HALLANDALE, Fla. – G. Watts Humphrey Jr.’s brilliant 4-year-old filly One Caroline ran her undefeated career record to five-for-five Sunday at Gulfstream Park after a dominating wire-to-wire victory in the $150,000 Rampart Stakes (Grade 2), coasting home 6½ lengths ahead of Darley Stable’s 22-1 longshot Sea Chanter.

Francis LaBelle Jr.
Aqueduct Racetrack

Jockey Ramon Dominguez rode four winners Sunday afternoon at Aqueduct Racetrack, including both $100,000 divisions of the New York Stallions Stakes, to put an exclamation point on his brilliant record-setting Big A inner dirt track championship.

(Edited Tampa Bay Downs report)

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Tampa Bay Downs will host its seventh annual Florida Cup Day on Saturday, April 4.  Florida Cup Day is comprised of six $85,000 stakes races restricted to Florida-breds, including the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Sophomore for 3-year-olds running 7/8 of a mile over the main track; the Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies for 3-year-old females running seven furlongs on the dirt; the Dayton Andrews Dodge Sophomore Turf, an about 1 1/16 miles test…

(Edited Aqueduct RAcetrack report)

JAMAICA, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association will offer a live 11-race card on Wood Memorial Day, Saturday, April 4, beginning with a first race post of 1 p.m. EDT. Four graded stakes, headed by the 85th running of the Grade 1, $750,000 Wood Memorial for 3-year-olds at nine furlongs, will make a up a guaranteed $400,000 late Pick 4, beginning in race 7.

(Edited Gulfstream Park report)

HALLANDALE, Fla. – Trainer Juan Reviriego is a colorful character, wearing an ascot and weathered sport coat most mornings around the barn. It’s hard to believe the native of Argentina could quietly slip into anyplace, but his former California string of South American-bred horses has been transplanted to Gulfstream Park in the last month.

(Edited Santa Anita Park report)

ARCADIA, Calif. – A former leading trainer in the United States who returned late last year from a one-year suspension for a medication violation, Patrick Biancone on Saturday realized his second victory since his reinstatement when Stream Cat captured Santa Anita’s 53rd running of the Grade 3, $100,000 Tokyo City Cup at 1½ miles.

 (Edited Gulfstream Park report)

HALLANDALE, Fla. – Edward P. Evans 3-year-old Virginia homebred Quality Road turned back challengers at the head of the stretch in Saturday’s $750,000 Florida Derby (Grade 1) at Gulfstream Park and drew off to win by 1¾ lengths over Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith’s even-money favorite Dunkirk in the historic South Florida Kentucky Derby (Grade 1) preview.