Hezamazing took advantage of a sizzling pace and overcame trouble to post a 10-1 upset in Saturday’s $35,000 Hanks Mills Sr. Handicap at Turf Paradise.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. -  Trickmeister may have been out of sight but he’s no longer out of mind in the handicap division after returning from a 16-month hiatus to dominate Saturday’s $60,000 Harlan’s Holiday Stakes at Gulfstream Park by  5 1/4 lengths over Our Dark Knight. Trickmeister was ridden to victory by Javier Castellano, who posted his fifth win on the card.

ALBANY, Calif. - Antares World rallied through the lane on Saturday at Golden Gate Fields to avenge her second-place finish in last year’s Pacific Heights Stakes while scoring her first victory of the year.

Last year's of the race had to be switched to the main track, but this year's edition of the $75,000 Pacific Heights, for older fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles, remained on the turf.

Frazil, a 5-year-old gelding who began his campaign last January running for a $35,000 claiming tag, ended his season by becoming a stakes winner in Saturday’s $61,750 Gravesend Handicap at Aqueduct.

King and Crusader, whose only previous win came against $25,000 maiden claimers, outdueled even-money favorite Glib in deep stretch to pull a 16-1 upset in the $75,000 Maryland Juvenile Championship, the closing-day co-feature at Laurel Park.

After six straight losses – four as the betting favorite – Chamberlain Bridge was moving toward twilight. The horse turns 8 in a couple weeks. Once a claimer, Chamberlain Bridge rose to the top of the sport, winning the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint in 2010. But as the recent losses piled up, even Chamberlain Bridge’s trainer, Bret Calhoun, wondered whether his horse still had his mind in the game. 

Like Adios Charlie, Algorithms was also coming off a lengthy vacation when closing out his 2011 season here at Gulfstream Park on Friday. And like Adios Charlie, Algorithms earned himself the opportunity to move into loftier company this winter after remaining undefeated with a very professional one-length decision over the previously unbeaten Consortium in the afternoon’s co-featured third race.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Stanley Hough feared Adios Charlie might have been a work away from his best race when he returned from more than a five-month layoff in Friday’s second-level optional $62,500 claiming feature at Gulfstream Park. And in light of his performance, just imagine what Adios Charlie might have done if he had been totally fit.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Jockey Patrick Valenzuela reiterated that he has retired from riding and apologized for missing his mounts at Hollywood Park last month at a hearing before Hollywood Park stewards on Saturday.

Valenzuela was summoned to appear before the stewards through a formal complaint filed by the California Horse Racing Board to discuss his absence on Nov. 17. Valenzuela said his absence was caused by an emergency involving his fiancee’s family in Kansas.

A pair of 3-year-old sprinters who excelled in stakes company, one early in the year and the other in the second half of 2011, will clash for the first time in Tuesday’s $75,000 Valley Forge Stakes at Parx Racing.

J J’s Luckytrain, winner of the Grade 3 Bay Shore in early April and the listed Miracle Wood in late February, will return from a 3 1/2-month absence against Poseidon’s Warrior, a three-time stakes winner since July 30, in the six-furlong Valley Forge.