INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Economics played a vital role in the decision to point My Gi Gi for Saturday’s $350,000 American Oaks at Betfair Hollywood Park.

Trainer Peter Eurton and the partnership that owns the 3-year-old filly could wait for the $150,000 San Clemente Handicap over a mile on turf at Del Mar on July 22, but the purse and Grade 1 status of the American Oaks makes the race more attractive.

“We’ll definitely go here,” Eurton said. “She deserves a try at it.”

After a promising 2-year-old campaign in which she finished third in the Grade 1 Spinaway and second in the Grade 2 Pocahontas, the filly And Why Not has been a disappointment so far in 2012. Badly beaten in a pair of graded races and a nonthreatening third in a listed stakes, And Why Not will try to regain her form and her confidence by dropping into a first-level allowance Monday at Delaware Park.

On class, And Why Not towers over her five rivals in race 8 at one mile on the main track.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Bet Your Life, who finished seventh in his lone lifetime start on June 21, overcame a troubled start and swept past nine rivals to capture the $87,255 Iowa Stallion Futurity on Saturday evening at Prairie Meadows.

Bet Your Life, a Minnesota-bred 2-year-old colt, came from last place after getting squeezed back when favored Senor Captain broke sharply to his left. Jockey Israel Ocampo enticed a quick early move from Bet Your Life that allowed him to reach the front on the turn of the 5 1/2-furlong event.

Sky Willow came from just off the pace under jockey Mario Pino to win the $75,000 Northern Fling at Presque Isle Downs on Friday evening.

Trained by Hall of Fame trainer Jonathan Sheppard, Sky Willow was third early in the one-mile race for Pennsylvania-bred fillies and mares before rallying into the stretch to take the lead. She then drew off to win by 2 1/4 lengths.

Weeper set the early pace under Manuel Chaves before settling for second, two lengths in front of post-time favorite Lenape Rim in third.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Friday’s pick six at Belmont Park returned $12,462. There were 57 winning tickets sold.

The correct sequence of 1-10-10-6-6-4 included Dance Card ($2.40), Mary P. Jones ($25.20), Special Skills ($12.80), Madame Giry ($8.10), Fiddlers Afleet ($9.70), and Departures ($4.30). Dance Card and Departures were favored while Madame Giry and Fiddlers Afleet were the second choice in their respective races.

Friday’s card began with a two-day carryover of $194,905 and there was an additional $903,086 wagered into the pool.

NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - Eyes Super Freaky overcame being squeezed between horses the opening eighth of a mile, settled along the rail behind the leaders into the second turn, was taken out three wide to circle the top two, and then drew off under Luis A. Gonzalez to win as much the best in the 45th running of the $75,000, 1 1/8-mile Daniel Stearns Cleveland Gold Cup.

It was 5 1/2 lengths back to License to Baling, who finished second, 2 3/4 lengths ahead of Uncle Virgil.

The closing day of the 2012 race meet at Lincoln Race Course brings down the curtain on 50-plus years of live racing in Nebraska’s capital city with the final program to be offered at this venue set to start at 2 p.m. Central on Sunday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Marketing Mix has resided at Woodbine since her workmanlike score in the June 2 Nassau Stakes, and will be favored when she tries to double up in the Grade 2 Dance Smartly Stakes here Sunday.

The $300,000 Dance Smartly, a 1 1/8-mile turf event, offers an extra $60,000 for eligible Ontario-breds, and Marketing Mix fits the bill. She found her calling on the grass last summer, when she romped here in the restricted Wonder Where Stakes. She subsequently won the Grade 3 Pucker Up at Arlington and the Grade 2 Mrs. Revere at Churchill Downs.

Cosmopolitan is bred for stakes success as a half-sister to Breeders’ Cup champ California Flag and multiple Grade 3 winner Cambiocorsa. Sunday, she will get her first chance at it when she makes her stakes debut in the $40,000 George Wafer Memorial at Arapahoe Park.

The Wafer Memorial is a seven-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies. It goes with a field of nine, among the starters Sudden Ghost, who is out of the Grade 1-winning mare Too Late Now, and Hindu Kush, who has placed in four stakes at Turf Paradise.

AUBURN, Wash. -- Class Included, never worse than second in 12 career starts, looms a strong favorite Sunday at Emerald Downs in the $50,000 Boeing Handicap for fillies and mares. The one-mile Boeing is the ninth of 10 races on one of the most intriguing cards of the meeting. First post time is 2 p.m. Pacific.