SHAKOPEE, Minn. – Heliskier went postward as the 2-5 favorite in the $50,000 10,000 Lakes, the longest odds since his 2012 debut in a statebred allowance, and proved that even those odds were too high with a 5 1/2-length win that moved his record to 7 for 7.

Longshot Willow Parish challenged Heliskier early in the six-furlong race for Minnesota-bred 3-year-olds and up before succumbing after two furlongs. The 2012 Canterbury horse of the year, Heliskier kept a two-length lead through the turn for home when Speakfromyourheart under Lori Keith ranged up alongside.

Za Approval, a gray horse whose hair has gone nearly white, usually is not hard to pick out in a race, but so buried was he in traffic Saturday at Monmouth Park during the Red Bank Stakes that the striking coat was difficult to locate. But, finally extricated from trouble at the top of the stretch, there came Za Approval, running down another light gray horse, Tune Me In, to win the Red Bank in a game performance.

BALTIMORE – On a gray day at Pimlico, the Sunshine Boys ruled.

Jockey Gary Stevens, who came out of a seven-year retirement in January, and trainer D. Wayne Lukas, still going strong at age 77, put added shine on their Hall of Fame careers and put an end to the Triple Crown aspirations of Orb by teaming to win the138th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course with the 15-1 longshot Oxbow.

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Glorious View became a graded stakes winner in her first try, gamely turning back a stretch-long bid from Fantasy of Flight to register a hard-fought, half-length decision in Saturday’s $200,000 Vagrancy Handicap at Belmont Park. Withgreatpleasure finished third.

Glorious View, a 4-year-old daughter of Pleasant Tap, entered the Grade 2 Vagrancy off three consecutive one-sided victories at Aqueduct, all under regular rider Junior Alvarado. Each of those wins came at six furlongs. She stretched out to 6 1/2 furlongs for her stakes debut in the Vagrancy.

Missy Rules and Ile St. Molly each upset a division of the Our Mims Stakes on Saturday’s opening day of the Delaware Park meeting the same way - grabbing a clear early lead and never relinquishing it. Missy Rules won the first division of the Our Mims, the sixth race, while Ile St. Molly won the second division, the eighth race. Each division was for 3-year-old fillies going a mile on the main track.

BALTIMORE – Trainer D. Wayne Lukas had the competition surrounded in the Grade 2, $300,000 Dixie Stakes at Pimlico on Saturday, sending out Skyring to a wire-to-wire win at 24-1 and uncoupled stablemate Optimizer to a third-place finish. The horses were split by Willcox Inn.

“It was wonderful,” Lukas said of the efforts from the horses he trains for Calumet Farm.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The favored Bear’s Gem notched her first stakes while registering her fifth straight victory Saturday at Woodbine in the $126,200 Ballade, a six-furlong dash for Ontario-sired females.

Bear’s Gem ($6.20) awaited room at the five-sixteenths pole and then followed a stalking Dance to the Moon exiting the turn before kicking clear to prevail by 1 3/4 lengths in 1:11.08. Dance to the Moon finished a clear second over Grace Phil, who edged out Hurricane Lorraine for third in the bulky 11-horse field.

BALTIMORE – Sage Valley came back Saturday at Pimlico just as good as he left last fall, scoring an emphatic, 2 1/4-length victory in the Grade 3, $150,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap for his fourth straight win.

Although he had been off for more than six months, Sage Valley ($6.60), the favorite, was ready for a sharp effort, and he benefited from a perfect, stalking trip under jockey John Velazquez in the six-furlong race.

Raise the Reward dueled for the early lead but shook clear on the turn to win the $50,000 Michael F. Rowland Memorial at Thistledown under a hand ride Saturday.

A 7-year-old gelding, Raise the Reward dueled to the turn with Catlaunch before shaking clear to lead into the stretch by two and a half lengths. Jockey Jacob Radosevich sat chilly on his mount through the stretch and the final margin of victory was two lengths.

Beau Mec closed for second after being fourth early, while Catlaunch hung on for third.

BALTIMORE - The Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith was riding his first race for trainer Chad Brown when he climbed aboard Pianist in the Grade 3, $150,000 Gallorette Handicap at Pimlico on Saturday. If first impressions count for much, it won’t be the last.