MIAMI - Trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. kept his better 2-year-old colts in New Jersey for most of the summer. But he brought them all back home in time to run roughshod over the local division during the past month, culminating his recent success with Speak Logistics's 2 3/4-length triumph over Two T's At Two B in Saturday's $300,000 In Reality at Calder.

MIAMI - Trainer Phil Gleaves cross-entered Csaba in Saturday’s $100,000 Tropical Park Derby in case the race got switched from turf to dirt due to rain. Gleaves ultimately got his wish and Csaba made the most of the opportunity, running the race of his life to register a resounding 14- length victory over arch-rival Empire Builder while turning in the most impressive performance on Calder’s rich Festival of the Sun program.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Monument, despite trying to lug in badly down the lane, held on under energetic handling from jockey Martin Garcia to take the $250,000 California Cup Juvenile, a result that completed a pick five sequence that was not hit, leading to a carryover of $207,240 to Sunday at Santa Anita.

Monument ($12) stalked the pace of Strong Wind for the first six furlongs of the 1 1/16-mile race, then took the lead entering the lane, but tried to pull himself up and began to lean left, yet still had plenty left to go on and win by 2 3/4 lengths.

ARCADIA, Calif. - There is a carryover of $207,240 for Sunday's 50-cent pick five, the first time the popular low-takeout bet has had a carryover at Santa Anita.

Saturday, a string of longshots led to only three horses being covered in the final leg of the pick five. None of the first three finishers of that race -- Monument, Ballard Ruler and Star Rocker -- was covered in the pick five.

MIAMI - Owner Frank Calabrese has made some good claims over the years, with the multiple graded stakes winner Romacaca among the first to come to mind. But none returned any quicker dividends then Verso a Verso, a $16,000 acquisition by Calabrese out of her debut in August who came back to dominate Calder's  $300,000 My Dear Girl Stakes by five lengths on Saturday.

ELMONT, N.Y. - The recipient of a patient ride by Jose Lezcano, Boisterous rallied from next-to-last to win Saturday’s Grade 2, $150,000 Knickerbocker Stakes by two lengths at Belmont Park.

 It was the second straight year that Boisterous won the Knickerbocker, making him the third horse to win the race in consecutive years. Charge d’Affaries (1999-2000) and Shady Character (1974-75) were the others. Boisterous, like Shady Character, is owned by the Phipps family.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – With Javier Castellano doling out her speed in precise increments, Dayatthespa led past every pole to register her fifth straight win and give trainer Chad Brown another major grass victory Saturday in the 29th running of the $400,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, the sixth and final Grade 1 race of the Keeneland fall meet.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario—Silent Serenity notched her first stakes in a huge upset in the $102,200 Ruling Angel, the first of two stakes on the Saturday card at Woodbine.  

On a clear lead, Silent Serenity ($75.20) set honest splits of 22.58 and 45.20 seconds in the 6 1/2-furlong sprint, before holding on for a three-quarter-length tally over Swift Artist. Evil Kitten rallied for third, while favored To Endue Wei faded to seventh in the eight-horse field of 3-year-old fillies. 

ELMONT, N.Y.  - The instructions were simple, and jockey Junior Alvarado understood them. No matter what, trainer Jimmy Toner told him, get La Cloche to the outside.

But for more than three-quarters of a mile of Saturday's Grade 3, $150,000 Athenia Stakes at Belmont Park, La Cloche, who broke from the rail, was buried on the inside.

Around the far turn, Toner turned to his daughter Catherine and said, "How's he going to get out?"

MIAMI - Saturday’s rich Festival of the Sun program at Calder got off to a chalky start when odds-on favorites Awesome Belle (4-5) and Cash Rules (3-5) won the $75,000 Frances Genter Stakes and $100,000 Spend a Buck Handicap, respectively.