MIAMI - Gantry proved he is a true six-furlong specialist while at the same time earning himself a free berth into this year’s Breeders’ Cup Sprint with a surprisingly easy five-length victory over Indiano in Saturday’s $400,000 Smile Sprint Handicap at Calder.

The Grade 2 Smile was marred when Field Commission was pulled up by jockey Manoel Cruz in the run down the backstretch and vanned off after the race. Several minutes earlier, Peb Hughes was scratched on the advice of the track veterinarian after injuring himself in the starting gate.

OCEANPORT, N.J .- Turbo Compressor scored a front-running victory in the $505,000 United Nations to give trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey Joe Bravo a sweep of the graded stakes on Saturday at Monmouth Park.

One race earlier, they combined to capture the Grade 2, $195,000 Monmouth Cup with Rule.

Turbo Compressor capped the hugely productive afternoon and gave Pletcher a fourth victory in the premier turf event of the meet. He also won with Balto Star (2003) and English Channel (2006-07).

MIAMI – Owner Shivananda Parbhoo did not submit Trinniberg’s entry for Calder’s Summit of Speed program until just minutes before the races were drawn Monday. But once he did, the nation’s premier 3-year-old sprinter suddenly became the key to not one, but two of the four graded stakes on Saturday’s card.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Can a horse win too well?

Game On Dude was vastly superior to three rivals in the Grade 2 Californian Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park on June 2, winning by 7 1/4 lengths as the pacesetter in his first start since a 12th in the Dubai World Cup in March.

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The win has left the 5-year-old gelding the 124-pound topweight for Saturday’s $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup over 1 1/4 miles.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Slim Shadey, a rising force in the turf ranks, and Simon Callaghan, his youthful trainer, both look for a breakthrough win on Saturday in the $500,000 United Nations Stakes.

The U.N. tops the second biggest day of the year at Monmouth Park. The U.N. and the $1 million Haskell Invitational are the meet’s two Grade 1 stakes.

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“Conveniently located three miles east of the Los Angeles International Airport, Hollywood Park, formerly a thoroughbred racetrack, is the largest undeveloped parcel of land in the Greater Los Angeles area.”

– recent press release from Merit Property Management

If the land developers and their management company could just hold off with the shovels, the rest of us would like to squeeze in one more Hollywood Gold Cup on Saturday afternoon, especially since the last anyone checked Hollywood Park is not “formerly” a racetrack just yet.

Thanks for that.

MIAMI – When Musical Romance walked into the starting gate for the 2011 Princess Rooney Handicap, she was just another nice Calder stakes horse on a bit of a roll at the time. Six months later, she was both a Breeders’ Cup and Eclipse Award champion.

When Musical Romance steps into the gate for Saturday’s Grade 1 Princess Rooney, she will do so as the starting highweight, favorite, and reigning division champion. What a difference a year makes!

English trainer John Gosden and jockey William Buick had an outstanding June, winning five races at Royal Ascot from June 20-23 and two stakes at Newmarket on Saturday. Sunday, their success extended to Ireland where the 4-year-old filly Izzi Top won the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.

The race did not live up to full expectations, however.  There were three late scratches, including Was, the English Oaks winner; Maybe, who was third in the English 1000 Guineas, and the outsider Bible Belt.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Jeranimo was last of eight on the final turn of Saturday’s $300,000 Shoemaker Mile at Betfair Hollywood Park - and that was fine with red-hot jockey Garrett Gomez.

“I thought, ‘Let’s wind him up, shoot him off the turn, and see what happens,’ ” Gomez recalled.

What happened was Jeranimo’s first win in a Grade 1 race. Rallying wide through the stretch, Jeranimo ($19.60) ran past his rivals to win the turf race by 1 1/4 lengths over the highly regarded Argentine import Suggestive Boy.

Jeranimo was timed in 1:33.97.

Led by English Oaks winner Was, trainer Aidan O’Brien has a formidable trio of 3-year-old fillies by Galileo in Sunday’s Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh in Ireland.

The race may have ramifications for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 2. The $240,000 Pretty Polly Stakes is part of the Breeders’ Cup’s Challenge program, offering a fees-paid berth to the BC Filly and Mare Turf to the winner, provided she is nominated to the Breeders’ Cup program.