Papaw Bodie became a stakes winner while winning his fourth consecutive race Saturday night in the Grade 3, $200,000 Connally Turf Cup at Sam Houston Race Park in Houston. He rallied for a 1 3/4-length win over Proceed Bee. It was another half-length back in third to Little Wagon.

The Connally Turf Cup was the richest race of the meet at Sam Houston.

ALBANY, Calif. - Favored Shudacudawudya got a patient, confident ride from Francisco Duran and parlayed a perfect stalking trip into a victory in the $65,260 Albany Stakes at Golden Gate Fields on Saturday.

Shudacudawudya ($4.60) sat third as Live Sundays controlled the pace in front of comebacking Gig Harbor in the six-furlong race. Duran angled Shudacudawudya three wide and kept him clear in the lane as he wore down a game Live Sundays to win by one-half length in 1:09.04. Reagan Republican finished third in a three-way photo another length back.

ARCADIA, Calif. - This much was clear after Home Sweet Aspen finished a neck in front of Sugarinthemorning in the $300,000 Santa Monica Stakes at Santa Anita. Both 4-year-old fillies ran the best races of their career to finish first and second.

Home Sweet Aspen ($13.60) led or disputed the pace throughout the Grade 1 race over seven furlongs and won narrowly after racing on the inside in the stretch-long duel. Winning jockey Joel Rosario said he was confident in early stretch that Home Sweet Aspen would prevail.

Derive continued his love affair with the Turf Paradise racetrack as the 6-year-old made it four wins in as many starts since coming here in the fall by easily taking the $35,000 Swift Stakes on Saturday.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Chokecherymary was once left behind at the start of a race at Hollywood Park in 2011 and declared a non-starter.

Saturday in the $100,000 Valentine Dancer Stakes at Santa Anita, she left six rival California-bred fillies and mares behind in the stretch of a one-mile turf race.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Mucho Macho Man has grown up.

The youngest horse in actual age on the Triple Crown trail last season, Mucho Macho Man gave every indication he will be a horse to reckon with in the handicap division as a 4-year-old after launching his season with an impressive 1 1/2-length victory over Ron the Greek in Saturday's $400,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Classic.

The Classic highlighted the six-race Florida Sunshine Millions program at Gulfstream Park that also featured an easy victory by Eclipse Award winner Awesome Feather in the Distaff.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark.- Riley Tucker pushed past $600,000 in career earnings Saturday at Oaklawn Park, when he outdueled Hamazing Destiny for a 1 1/4-length win in the $50,000 King Cotton Stakes. It was another 2 1/4 lengths back in third to River Bear.

The King Cotton was the first of two local preps for the Grade 3, $200,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap at Oaklawn on April 14.

Grand Daddy, ridden by Julio Felix, rallied from far back to prevail narrowly in a three-horse photo Saturday in the $50,000 Forego Stakes at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky.

With an eighth-mile to go in the 6 1/2-furlong Polytrack race, the front-runners were backing up while three horses were coming on to take command: Grand Daddy, Tend, and Matthewsburg. That's the way they finished, with Grand Daddy, widest of all, having a neck margin on Tend at the wire, with Matthewsburg, the 5-2 favorite, another neck back in a field of 12 older horses.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The wider the margin grew between the pacesetters and Holladay Road in the first half of Saturday’s $100,000 Crystal Water Stakes at Santa Anita, the less that jockey Rafael Bejarano worried.

For the first half-mile of the race over 1 1/16 miles, Bejarano had Holladay Road 10 to 11 lengths behind pacesetters Bluegrass Reward and Macho Dorado, who set a torrid pace of 22.22 and 44.97 seconds.

“They tried to kill each other,” Bejarano said. “I knew there would be plenty of speed in the race.”

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Little Mike once again demonstrated his affinity for the Gulfstream Park turf course while showing he can indeed get nine furlongs as he went gate to wire to win Saturday's $150,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Turf by three-quarters of length.

The win was the ninth from 15 career starts for Little Mike and second straight since returning from a condylar fracture that forced him to miss eight months last year.