HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. –  Trainer Augustin Bezara started 60 percent of his five-horse stable Sunday, all three of whom won including Reveron in the inaugural $100,000 Gulfstream Park Derby.

Bezara was a leading trainer in his native Venezuela prior to coming to the United States two years ago. He’d already won the third race with Mommy’s Image and the fifth with Sweetlandofliberty before sending out Reveron to make his stakes debut in the first derby of the New Year in the United States.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Sacristy remained undefeated since switching to dirt and became a stakes winner in the process, rallying from last to a 1 3/4-length victory over Say a Novena in Sunday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Old Hat Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Sacristy finished a distant second in each of her first two starts, both of which came over synthetic surfaces at Arlington Park and Keeneland. Trainer Wayne Catalano switched Sacristy to dirt for the first time at Churchill Downs for her 2-year-old finale, where she rallied to an easy 6 3/4-length victory.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Considering how long trainer Mike Hushion and jockey Ramon Dominguez were talking after the race, one wouldn’t have figured that they had just won Sunday’s $75,000 Interborough Stakes at Aqueduct with Nicole H.

While naturally pleased with the victory, Hushion was concerned that Nicole H, the defending Interborough winner and 2-5 favorite for this year’s renewal, wasn’t her dominating self and only won the race by a neck over Winning Image.

Game On Dude, runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5, worked a half-mile in 48.20 seconds on Sunday and could make his 2012 debut in the $200,000 San Antonio Stakes, trainer Bob Baffert said.

The winner of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap here last March and the Grade 1 Goodwood Stakes here in October, Game On Dude has had three workouts since resuming training last month.

Regally Ready and Caracortado, first and fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5, worked Sunday in advance of the $100,000 Daytona Stakes on the hillside turf course on Jan. 8.

Regally Ready, trained by Steve Asmussen, worked five furlongs in 1:02.20. Caracortado, trained by Mike Machowsky, worked the same distance in 57.80 seconds, the fastest of 37 recorded works at the distance.

“He worked a little faster than I wanted,” Machowsky said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Turbulent Descent will be rested in coming weeks and will not start in the $300,000 Santa Monica Stakes on Jan. 28 after a sixth-place finish in Saturday’s La Brea Stakes at Santa Anita.

“I’ll evaluate her this week,” trainer Mike Puype said. “It looks like she’ll need a rest.”

Turbulent Descent was the 1-2 favorite in the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. Last of nine on the backstretch, she made little impression in the stretch and finished 5 1/4 lengths behind 16-1 upset winner Teddy’s Promise.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The connections of C C’s Pal felt their 5-year-old mare was doing so well that, if permitted, they would have run her in both the Ladies Handicap and Interborough Stakes on Sunday at Aqueduct.

New York rules don’t permit that and believing the Ladies was an easier spot than the Interborough, trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. chose the longer of the two races and was rewarded when C C’s Pal cruised to a 2 3/4-length victory over Bahama Bound in the $75,000 Ladies.

Unitas ran the best race of his career at Delta Downs in October, and upon his return to the Vinton, La., oval Saturday night, he became a stakes winner in the $60,000 B-Connected.

The race shared a card with the $60,000 Lookout won by Rileys Monarch ($18). Both races were for 3-year-olds and up, and both were restricted to Louisiana-breds who had not won a stakes in 2011.

River Bear rallied off a hot pace to break open what had been a competitive race when moving on to a five-length triumph Saturday night in the 24th running of the $50,000 Holiday Cheer at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Ron Ellis saved the best for the last day of the year, sending out Teddy’s Promise to a decisive victory in the Grade 1, $300,000 La Brea Stakes, a race in which Turbulent Descent was a dull sixth of nine as the 1-2 favorite.

Teddy’s Promise ($35), just 6-1 on the morning line, floated up because of the inordinate action on Turbulent Descent, who not only was a short price in the win pool, but had heavy action in the show pool that led to outsized prices on the first three finishers.