BALTIMORE – Fiddlers Patriot needs to be nursed along because of quarter cracks, according to trainer George Weaver, but when he's good, he's very good. He fired fresh off a layoff on Friday at Pimlico to win the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint for older horses, experiencing the thrill of victory, not the agony of the feet, in the race named for the late host of "ABC's Wide of Sports."

AUBURN, Wash. – After blazing parallel paths to stardom in Northwest racing, Noosa Beach and Hollywood Harbor will meet for the first time Sunday in the $50,000 Governor’s Handicap at Emerald Downs, the showcase event on an 11-race card that begins at 2 p.m. Pacific.

Christophe Clement will have a big say in the Tiller and Key Cents, a pair of $90,000 overnight stakes that share top billing on Sunday, but cautions, “It’s New York, it’s Belmont, and it’s never easy.”

Clement has strength in numbers in the Tiller, scheduled for the Widener turf at seven furlongs. He sends out three of the eight 3-year-olds, with Summer Breezing tabbed as a slight favorite over stablemate Achilles, while Faretti will be a price.

“All three are training well,” said Clement

BALTIMORE – The undefeated Agave Kiss rolled to her sixth straight win Friday with an overpowering, front-running victory in the $100,000 Miss Preakness Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.

Agave Kiss ($3.20), the heavy favorite, broke like a shot under jockey Ramon Dominguez, quickly opened a daylight advantage on her rivals, and was never threatened. She finished 5 1/2 lengths clear of runner-up Millionreasonswhy, with Ageless another 3 1/4 lengths back in third in the field of seven.

Gypsy Robin and Singlet were scratched.

AUBURN, Wash. – Quick, who ran the fastest race at Emerald Downs in 2011? It wasn’t Noosa Beach, the reigning heavyweight champion, Northwest Division, and it wasn’t Awesome Gem, the horse who KO’ed Noosa Beach in the Grade 3 Longacres Mile.

Jebrica was the fastest horse at Emerald last year, at least for one day. The people who compile Beyer Speed Figures assigned a 98 for his victory in the nine-furlong Emerald Derby, and Jebrica looks to be sitting on more fireworks Sunday as he makes his season debut in the $50,000 Governor’s Handicap.

BALTIMORE - After moving out to launch a menacing rally on the far turn, Bold Affair proved best in the stretch to capture Friday's $100,000 Skipat Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.

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Uno Ducksy has run some of his best races at Lone Star, and on Sunday he will return to the local turf course for the first time since last summer in the featured fifth race. The allowance will be run over five furlongs on the grass, and it is for 3-year-olds and up.

Uno Ducksy won a $15,000 optional claimer at Lone Star last June. He then popped a career-high Beyer Speed Figure, a 90, one start later, when he won an allowance at Lone Star. Later in the year, Uno Ducky went on to run a solid fourth in the Grade 3 Woodford at Keeneland.

Remington Park will spotlight Oklahoma-bred Quarter Horses on Sunday, when it puts on four stakes for horses bred in the state. The races will be run consecutively, from the seventh through 10th, and they are worth more than $160,000.

Jockey Jamie Theriot is back riding at Louisiana Downs on a regular basis for the first time since 2006, and the move is part of a two-tier plan he’s following to strengthen his business for Fair Grounds. The second half of Theriot’s plan is a move back to Kentucky following the close of the Bossier City, La., meet in late September.

BALTIMORE – Of all the new experimental ventures attempted in the game of horse racing, few have been met with the enthusiasm of the Lady Legends for the Cure. Even the losing jockeys exult.

“It’s just great being with these girls, doing everything together, all the hospitality we get,” said Mary Russ Tortora, who Friday was aboard the runner-up, Bellagio, in the third annual Lady Legends for retired female jockeys at Pimlico. “It really is a great event.”