HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Bill Mott sent out the single most impressive winner here last weekend, the lightly raced but extremely talented 4-year-old Arthur’s Ride who captured a second-level allowance race by 7 1 /2 lengths while registering a 99 Beyer Speed Figure when returning from a one-year layoff on Saturday. However, the No. 1 star here that day was the Hall of Fame horseman’s son Riley, who won a pair of races earlier on the card, including the Hutcheson Stakes with the undefeated Beeline. Beeline registered a popular and well-deserved nose decision over hard-luck runner-up Improptude in the six-furlong fixture for 3-year-olds. In his only previous start, Beeline captured a maiden special weight at the same distance by 3 3/4 lengths over stablemate Mr Skylight, who also returned Saturday to win a similarly conditioned maiden dash despite breaking poorly and racing wide throughout. “We always thought quite a bit about Beeline, even without having done too much with him in the mornings prior to his first start,” the younger Mott said. “I expected him to run well the first time, although not necessarily 1:09 and change. Mr Skylight never burnt up the track in the morning either, although I didn’t expect him to be 75-1 in his first start. Nor did we expect them to finish one-two either in what has certainly turned out to be a very key race.” :: Access morning workout reports straight from the tracks and get an edge with DRF Clocker Reports Key indeed. With their victories within a two-hour span here Saturday, Beeline and Mr Skylight became the fourth and fifth horses to come back and win their next starts out of the eighth race on Feb. 10. Fifth-place Proprietry Trade, sixth-place Hunt Ball, and ninth-place Trucker all also graduated in their subsequent outings. In the Hutcheson, Beeline, who went postward a somewhat surprising 4-5 favorite, set the early pace, relinquished the advantage briefly to Ship to Shore on the final bend, regained the lead turning for home, repulsed a bid from Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint runner-up Valiant Force after five furlongs, and then narrowly withstood Improptude’s final surge. “I wasn’t eager to run him back in a stakes, but the race fit perfectly for us on the calendar and it was either that or wait another 10 days for an allowance race and hope it fills,” Mott said. “He was giving up a lot of seasoning to that field, which is always a disadvantage no matter how talented they are. My dad always says first time against winners is the toughest race there is. Any time a horse gets headed at the five-sixteenths like he did after making that pace and comes back to win it’s pretty impressive. He showed a lot of grit and maturity and got a lot of seasoning out of that race as well.” :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. Mott, who said he will likely keep Beeline at one turn – either seven furlongs or a mile – for the time being, has had a very strong Championship meeting while spending his first winter as a regular in South Florida. He had won with 13 of his 49 starters entering the final two weeks of the meet. “I don’t think I could have drawn it up any better. We’ve found the right level and won with all types of horses for all types of clients, and I couldn’t be happier with the way the meet has gone,” said Mott, who will send 20 horses to Keeneland and also maintain a full barn at the Churchill Downs training center after leaving Florida early next month. Turf sprint stakes top weekend The upcoming weekend will be highlighted by Saturday’s $100,000 Texas Glitter for 3-year-olds going five furlongs on the turf and its filly counterpart, the $100,000 Melody of Colors, the following afternoon. :: Get the Inside Track with the FREE DRF Morning Line Email Newsletter. Subscribe now.  The Texas Glitter drew a field of eight, led by three-time stakes winner No Nay Mets, who makes his first start for trainer George Weaver since finishing fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. The headliner is one of four grass races on a program that also includes seven Tapeta events with nary a single race carded over the main track. Weaver also will send out the one to beat in the Melody of Colors, Crimson Advocate, who used her victory in the Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies Stakes here last spring as a stepping-stone to upsetting the prestigious Group 2 Queen Mary at Ascot five weeks later. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.