DEL MAR, Calif. – Include Me Out re-established her position as the top-ranked older female on the West Coast when she held  off Star Billing to take the Grade 1, $300,000 Clement Hirsch Stakes on Saturday at Del Mar.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. - Trainer Michael Stidham has taken a liking to Canterbury Park's new purse structure, capping a sweep of the two major stakes of the season with the victory of Ruthville in the $100,000 Lady Canterbury Stakes.

Locally stabled Rare Sunset shot off to a big early lead under jockey Geovanni Franco and blistered through fractions of 23.06 and 46.62 seconds. With her lead as much as seven lengths down the backstretch, Stidham assistant Chris Davis wasn't concerned.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Mix equal parts talent and volatility and you might produce the 2-year-old filly Gold Edge, who ran her record to 2 for 2 winning the $65,000 Lisa M Stakes by three-quarters of a length Saturday at Arlington Park despite throwing a minor fit in the paddock.

“I think she’s an unbelievable filly,” said trainer Lon Wiggins. “I think she’s a better horse than she showed today, considering her antics before the race.”

Key Donation put himself on the path to next month’s Grade 2, $500,000 Super Derby on Saturday, when he swept past dueling leaders Tensas Cold Front and Master Rick to win his stakes debut in the $100,000 Prelude at Louisiana Downs.

The Prelude was the richest of four stakes on the card, all designed as preps for Super Derby Day stakes on Sept. 8. The four races Saturday were worth a cumulative $250,000.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Frankie Costa, a longtime New Jersey trainer known for his good humor and omnipresent cigar, died Friday. He was 77.

Monmouth Park made the announcement on Saturday morning.

Born in Italy, Costa was a jockey before turning to training in 1972.

“Frank was a New Jersey legend and a dear friend,” said Bob Kulina, president of Darby Development LLC, which operates Monmouth. “He was a fixture at Monmouth Park, one that will surely be missed.”

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Chamberlain Bridge looked like his old self on Saturday afternoon at Monmouth Park, surging in the lane to win the $62,000 My Frenchman Stakes for grass sprinters.

The 8-year-old gelding, the winner of the 2010 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, got his first win of the season in five tries. The victory followed a rousing second-place finish in the Arlington Sprint Stakes after blowing the break and falling far off the pace.

CHESTER, W.Va. – Macho Macho gave trainer Steve Asmussen a record fourth victory in the $750,000 West Virginia Derby when taking full advantage of a great trip to post a mild upset Saturday in the 43rd running of the Mountaineer Park showcase.

 SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Fort Larned was training so well leading up to Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney Invitational Handicap that trainer Ian Wilkes couldn’t wait until Saturday to talk to his jockey.

So in mid-week he called Brian Hernandez, the Kentucky-based jockey who would be riding Fort Larned to share with him the good vibrations.

The conversation filled Hernandez with so much confidence that there were no nerves for the 26-year-old, who would be making his first ever trip to Saratoga.

CHESTER, W.Va. - Tapizar finished full of run Saturday after leading throughout and turning back a brief upper-stretch bid from Seruni to capture the $200,000 West Virginia Governor's Stakes, the richest supporting race on the West Virginia Derby program at Mountaineer Park.

Ridden by Corey Nakatani, Tapizar returned $3.40 as the heavy favorite in a field of six older horses in the Governor's. A 4-year-old colt by Tapit, he was making his first start in nearly five months. He finished the 1 1/16-mile distance in 1:42.57 over a fast track.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - She had won from last and from on the lead. Saturday, Julie's Love proved she could win from a stalking position as well.

After sitting third for most of the trip under Julien Leparoux, Julie's Love rallied past the front-runner Dancing to Town in deep stretch then held off the late-running favorite Dealbata to win Saturday's $100,000 De La Rose Stakes at Saratoga.

Dealbata, away last from the outside post under Ramon Dominguez, got up by a head over Dancing to Town for second.