There were 273 winning tickets sold on Saturday’s pick six, each returning $1,219. The wager began the day with a $98,992 carryover and had an additional $410,429 put into the pool.

The winning sequence of 4-1-5-2-7-3 included Digital Joe ($6.50), Nicole H ($3) Zetterholm ($5.90), Calibrachoa ($2.90), Alpha ($2.70) and Diamond District ($10.80).

In the last race, Cantrushperfection was scratched at the gate. He was the 3-2 favorite at the time. Tickets using that horse were put onto the post-time favorite Hopeful Boy, who finished eighth after setting the early pace.

Take the best horse, give her the best trip, and the ultimate results are usually fairly obvious.  Case in point is Martin Schwartz’s Grade 1 winner Zagora, who parlayed a perfect trip under jockey Javier Castellano into an easy 2 1/4-length victory over Exclusive Love in Saturday’s $150,000 Endeavour Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.

Zagora entered the Grade 3 Endeavour idle since finishing seventh in Woodbine’s Grade 2 Canadian on Sept. 18.  In her previous start, Zagora gave trainer Chad Brown his first Grade 1 victory by capturing the Diana at Saratoga.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Alpha passed another test - okay call it a quiz if you like - on the road to the Kentucky Derby with a good-looking 3 1/4-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct.

The win came one month after Alpha won the $100,000 Count Fleet Stakes here and confirmed his status as the top 3-year-old Derby prospect stabled in the Northeast. While the field Alpha defeated was not very strong, the performance was viewed as a step forward from the Count Fleet by both trainer Kiaran McLaughlin and jockey Ramon Dominguez.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Mr. Commons confirmed his status as California’s top miler, won for the first time against older horses, and survived an inquiry with his victory in Saturday’s $150,000 Arcadia Stakes at Santa Anita.

Ridden by Mike Smith, Mr. Commons ($2.80) closed from fifth in the field of seven to win the Grade 2 Arcadia Stakes over a mile on turf by a length, finishing in 1:33.41.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Calibrachoa kept his perfect record over Aqueduct’s inner track intact with a solid 2 1/4-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Toboggan Stakes at Aqueduct.

 It was the fourth win in as many starts over the inner track for Calibrachoa, who also won the Toboggan last year when the purse was $100,000.

In three of her first five starts, Dance to Bristol has needed the photo-finish camera to determine whether she finished first or second. There was no close call in Saturday’s $100,000 Marshua Stakes at Laurel Park, however.

The Charles Town-based Dance to Bristol turned a tight race entering the stretch into an easy victory as she collected her second stakes victory in the six-furlong sprint for 3-year-old fillies.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - John Oxley's Dixie Strike closed stoutly while four wide to get up in the final stride and win her 3-year-old debut in Saturday’s $150,000 Florida Oaks at Tampa Bay Downs.

Dixie Strike, part of a favored Oxley-owned entry with Northern Passion, was content to sit off the dawdling pace set by More Than Love that included a half-mile of 50.79 seconds and six furlongs in 1:15.06.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The dominant Nicole H, absent from last month’s Interborough Stakes, was back at Aqueduct on Saturday, rallying along the rail in upper stretch and drawing clear to a 2 1/2-length victory in the $100,000 Correction Stakes at Aqueduct.

Emcee put on quite a show at Gulfstream Park on Friday, cruising to an easy victory over Grade 1-placed and odds-on favorite Associate under John Velazquez in the afternoon’s $53,500 allowance feature. The win was the second in as many starts for Emcee, a son of Unbridled’s Song who won his maiden by 4 1/2 lengths at Belmont Park on Sept. 14.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – This month’s Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park may have found another candidate from the unlikeliest of places, Saturday’s five-furlong Needles Stakes on the turf.