NEW ORLEANS – Three seasons ago at Fair Grounds, it wasn’t happening for It Happened Again, who finished 10th in the 2009 Risen Star Stakes. By last fall, the gelding had fallen all the way into the $20,000 claiming ranks, at which point owner Maggi Moss requested Steve Asmussen claim the horse. Then things started happening.

Danzing Tribal continued his sharp form, notching his fourth win in his last five starts as he captured Saturday’s $35,000 Caballos del Sol at Turf Paradise.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - Finding room between rivals in midstretch, Jenny's So Great unleashed a strong run that carried her to a length victory in the $75,000 Lightning City Stakes on opening day at Tampa Bay Downs.

Lady of Fifty scored her second straight stakes victory on Saturday at Golden Gate Fields, leading a sweep of the top three places in the $75,260 Corte Madera Stakes for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Ancient Rome made his stakes debut a winning one, surging from between horses in the final 40 yards under jockey Joe Rocco Jr. to outfinish For Oby by a nose to capture the $100,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes, the feature race on Saturday’s wildly successful opening-day program at Gulfstream Park.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Favored Dixie Strike notched her first stakes victory convincingly in the $151,600 Ontario Lassie at Woodbine Saturday.

Bear’s Song established a slow pace in the 1 1/16-mile route for 2-year-old fillies, while Dixie Strike raced in mid-pack under Patrick Husbands. Dixie Strike commenced a four-wide rally at the quarter pole, and then hit the front early in the stretch before kicking clear for a 5 1/2-length score in 1:44.92.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Robbie Davis rode 3,382 winners as a jockey. Few, if any, sparked the emotions that his first win as a trainer did Saturday afternoon at Aqueduct.

Eighttofasttocatch reaffirmed his affinity for Laurel Park on Saturday when he cruised to his fifth victory of the season locally in the $75,000 Jennings Handicap for Maryland-breds.

Duke of Mischief, idle since finishing 10th in the Grade 1 Whitney Handicap, worked an easy half-mile in 49.80 seconds at Calder on Saturday as he continues to tune up for his return, which may not come until the Florida Sunshine Millions Classic on Jan. 26.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After the first time he ran C C’s Pal, trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. got the idea to try to keep the 4-year-old filly sprinting.

But when she drew the outside post in the Grade 2 Go for Wand on Nov. 25, Dutrow decided to put those plans on hold and run her in that one-mile race. When the Aqueduct racing office called Dutrow on Wednesday to let him know Saturday’s six-furlong Garland of Roses was coming up light, Dutrow decided to wheel the filly back in eight days off her third-place Go for Wand finish.