Heavily favored Claresmiezie paid $2.50 for her five-length win over Commander Sue in the $50,000 Chariot Chaser at Northlands Park. Only four horses contested the six-furlong sprint for 3-year-old fillies and show wagering was not allowed.

INGLEWOOD, Calif.- The $72,570 Desert Stormer Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park on Sunday had the lowest prize money of the six stakes that Turbulent Descent has won in her 11-race career. It felt like the most important to trainer Mike Puype and the partnership who own the filly after the race.

Making her first start since December, Turbulent Descent had an ideal comeback in the Desert Stormer for fillies and mares, winning by 1 1/4 lengths over pacesetter Izzy Rules.

Los Angeles Lakers teammates Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant had their first experience as racehorse owners on Sunday, but it only was a brief encounter.

Their gelding, Siempre Mio, finished second by a nose in Sunday’s first race, a $12,500 claimer for sprinters, and was claimed in a six-way shake by Mark Glatt.

Glatt claimed Siempre Mio on behalf of the Donkey Island Racing partnership. NFL quarterback Drew Brees is part or the Donkey Island group.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The 2-year-old stakes winners Amarish and Miss Empire  from Saturday are bound for $150,000 stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park in July, their trainers said on Sunday.

Amarish extended his unbeaten record to two races with an easy win by 4 1/2 lengths in Saturday’s $100,000 Willard Proctor Memorial Stakes over 5 1/2 furlongs. The winner of a maiden race over 4 1/2 furlongs by 7 3/4 lengths on May 26, Amarish has yet to face a serious challenge.

A cough will keep Belle Royale from starting in the $100,000 Beverly Hills Handicap next Sunday, trainer Simon Callaghan said.

The winner of the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes on May 28, Belle Royale is being pointed for the $750,000 Beverly D. Stakes at Arlington Park on Aug. 18. Callaghan considered a start in the Beverly Hills as a prep to the Arlington Park race but did not work Belle Royale over the weekend.

Owned by Michael Tabor, Belle Royale will be pointed for the $150,000 Royal Heroine Stakes over a mile on turf on July 7.

Le Bernardin, who flopped when thrust into graded stakes competition for the first time following a first-level allowance victory, rebounded nicely to capture Sunday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Pegasus for 3-year-olds at Monmouth Park.

Despite lugging in throughout the stretch, Le Bernardin ($12) managed to hold off Easter Gift by a neck, completing 1 1/16  miles on a fast main track in 1:44.51. He stalked the pace set by eventual fourth-place finisher Innocent Man through fractions of 47.73 seconds and 1:12.17 before swinging three wide and taking a short lead coming into the stretch.

Joel Rosario, among the leading riders in Southern California, will be moving his tack to Belmont Park beginning June 27, his agent Ron Ebanks said Sunday.

Ebanks said he and Rosario had been contemplating a move to New York for the last year but expedited the decision due to the collarbone injury suffered Saturday night at Churchill Downs by John Velazquez, which is expected to keep him out of action for two months.

Ebanks, speaking by phone from California, also said the “best horses are going to be back there,” in New York. “That’s the main reason we’re coming there.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Pender Harbour  got the better of second choice Good Better Best in the stretch to take the $125,000 Steady Growth Stakes at Woodbine on  Sunday.

Ben’s Cat, displaying far more early speed than usual, snapped out of his mini-slump with a track-record performance in Sunday’s $150,000 Parx Dash Handicap.

In winning his 11th career stakes, the 6-year-old Ben’s Cat ($22.80) sizzled five furlongs on a firm turf course in 54.96 seconds, breaking the course record of 55.42 set by Crimson Sun on Sept. 22, 2008.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Had he his druthers, trainer Dominic Galluscio would have run Johannesburg Smile in a stakes restricted to New York-breds on Sunday rather than the Lemon Drop Kid versus open company at Belmont Park.

But when the New York-bred race didn’t fill, Galluscio decided to enter the Lemon Drop Kid and take his chances. When morning-line favorite Boys At Tosconova scratched, that aided Johannesburg Smile’s chances immensely.