Bal Harbour won the $75,000 Sapling Stakes and Pacific Gale took the $60,000 Sorority Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth Park. Both juveniles were piloted by Chris DeCarlo and pulled mild upsets for the first stakes victories of their young careers. DeCarlo picked up the mount on Bal Harbour ($16.40), already well-traveled, as he came to Monmouth for Todd Pletcher. The First Samurai colt made the first two starts of his career at Gulfstream Park, winning second time out, before finishing fifth in the Grade 3 Sanford Stakes and fourth in the Grade 2 Saratoga Special in New York. Bal Harbour stalked the pace in fourth in the Sapling, and rallied inside of Awaken, an Ohio-bred stakes winner trying open company for the first time, as both powered their way to the front coming into the stretch. With Bal Harbor battling gamely on the inside, he was brushed by Awaken in midstretch, then drifted out to bump his foe slightly as he began to inch away. He pulled clear late to win by 1 1/4 lengths, finishing the mile in 1:38.48. “He broke really sharp and I was able to save a little bit of ground,” DeCarlo said. “Once we got to the backstretch, I got him in behind the two leaders and I bided my time. The only way he was getting beat was if someone went by him on the outside. As long as he had a horse next to him, he was going to fight.” Kowboy Karma, sent away as the heavy favorite off open-lengths victories in his first two starts, including the Strike Your Colors Stakes, was racing eighth at the halfway point of the mile, and rallied from five wide to edge Awaken by a neck for second. Just under an hour earlier, DeCarlo had turned in a cagey pace-stalking ride aboard Pacific Gale ($10.60) as they captured the Sorority. The filly broke well, but DeCarlo was content to sit in second with her, a length behind multiple stakes-placed Little Dipper, who secured the lead from the outside post and led through sharp opening splits of 22.16 and 44.95 seconds. “She broke pretty sharp. The outside horse looked like she was intent on going to the lead so I sat right off,” DeCarlo said. “I asked her around the quarter pole and when I asked, she went.” Pacific Gale was still a length behind coming into the stretch, but rallied professionally to reel in the leader and powered clear in the closing stages to win by 3 1/4 lengths, stopping the clock in 1:10.54 for the six furlongs. Little Dipper was a clear second by 2 1/2 lengths over Dark Artist. It was another 6 1/4 lengths back to the well-bred Jehozacat, who was sent away as the favorite off a debut victory. Pacific Gale, who became the first stakes winner for freshman sire Flat Out, won for the second time in three starts for John Kimmel, rebounding from a sixth in the Grade 3 Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga.