PHOENIX -  After her form tailed off back East, Page Springs returned to the Turf Paradise where she got her career off to such a marvelous start, and the home cooking did the trick as the 3-year-old filly got back on track to capture Saturday's $35,000 Princess of Palms.

The 7-year-old horse Pool Play is competent on turf, and he is even better on synthetic surfaces, having won five such races. But it’s safe to say Pool Play prefers dirt. Before Saturday, he was 1 for 1 on it, scoring a 36-1 shocker in the 2011 Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap. And now he’s 2 for 2.

ELMONT, N.Y. - King David went from a popular commodity at the claim box to an unlikely Grade 1 winner at Belmont Park Saturday, upsetting the $400,00 Jamaica Handicap by a half-length at odds of 28-1.King Kreesa, a 23-1 longshot who set the pace under Eddie Castro, finished second by three-quarters of a length over an unlucky Summer Front, who got stopped trying to rally along the rail under Ramon Dominguez.

Cogito was fourth followed by Dullahan, the 8-5 favorite, Shkspeare Shaliyah and Howe Great. Unbridled Command scratched.

ELMONT, N.Y. - What was supposed to be a mismatch in the Grade 1, $400,000 Frizette, turned into a match race that ultimately went to the favorite, Dreaming of Julia.

 Seemingly poised to go by My Happy Face in midstretch, Dreaming of Julia had to withstand a fight through the final furlong, prevailing by a short head over a stubborn My Happy Face at Belmont Park. It was 10 3/4 lengths back to Toasting. Nancy O was last.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Shanghai Bobby delivered another sterling performance, winning Saturday’s Grade 1, $400,000 Champagne Stakes by five lengths at Belmont Park.

The win was the fourth in as many starts for Shanghai Bobby, confirming his status as the top 2-year-old colt in the country. Now, the question most people want answered is whether Shanghai Bobby will ship cross-country to Santa Anita for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, a race for which he earned a fees-paid berth as part of the Win and You’re in program.

Trainer Ian Wilkes’s home track is Churchill Downs, and the good 3-year-old he trains, Neck ‘n Neck, likes it there, too. Before Saturday, Neck ‘n Neck won 3 of 5  starts at Churchill and 0  of 7 elsewhere. But the track at Hoosier Park evidently suits him. Rallying from 10^th in an 11-horse field, Neck ‘n Neck scored a one-length victory in the Grade 2, $500,000 Indiana Derby, the biggest win of his career.

Not Abroad, unable to get the job done in a series of much longer races, relished the cut back to 1 1/8 miles and dominated Saturday’s Jim McKay Maryland Million Classic at Laurel Park.

The $150,000 Classic was the feature on an 11-race program, worth a collective $1.05 million, devoted to the offspring of Maryland-based stallions.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Merit Man could have won Saturday’s $100,000 Tim Conway Stakes at Santa Anita by more than 5 1/2 lengths if he had paid attention through all of the six furlongs.

“He kind of pulled himself up at bit when he saw a photographer,” winning jockey Patrick Valenzuela said. “He’s a nice horse."

And a horse on his way to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint here on Nov. 2 after winning his stakes debut in the Tim Conway.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -  Capitalizing on his inside post position and utilizing his early speed, Joha spurted to the lead in Saturday's Grade 1, $400,000 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland Saturday and gamely repelled all comers to earn a date in the Breeders' Cup.

Grace Hall made it look easy winning the Grade 2, $200,000 Indiana Oaks on Saturday afternoon at Hoosier Park.

Trained by Anthony Dutrow and ridden by Brian Hernandez Jr., Grace Hall was to the outside of pacesetting Eden’s Moon, trained by Bob Baffert, to the far turn in the 1 1/16-mile event. Hernandez asked Grace Hall for run into the stretch, and she responded, drawing off to win by 5 3/4 lengths.

Hernandez was impressed with his mount.