\INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Stoney Fleece sat patiently behind a three-way pace duel and then rallied for a 1 1/4-length victory in the Grade 3, $100,000 Generous Stakes for 2-year-olds on Saturday at Hollywood Park.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Steve Asmussen salvaged a tie with Mike Maker for the training title at the 21-day Churchill Downs meet by winning with one of his three starters on the Sunday finale.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Favored Maritimer established himself as a contender for Canadian champion 2-year-old and for next year’s Queen’s Plate with a decisive score in the $175,300 Display Stakes at Woodbine Sunday.

Jockey Cornelio Velasquez recorded his 3,000th career victory in North America Sunday when he guided Up in Smoke to an easy victory in the fifth race at Aqueduct.

It was the second win on Sunday’s card for Velasquez, who also took the opener on Hey Valentina, a mount he picked up when Ramon Dominguez took off his mounts due to a stomach virus.

The winners of all four of Saturday’s graded stakes races at Aqueduct will soon be headed to south Florida with their connections hopeful of targeting major races for them in 2012.

To Honor and Serve, the 1 3/4-length winner of the Grade 1 Cigar Mile, is expected to leave New York on Wednesday and get a little vacation at owner Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Stud in Ocala before joining trainer Bill Mott’s string at Payson Park sometime in January.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Trainer Mike Pender trusted his gut with Jeranimo, and Jeranimo rewarded his trainer’s instincts, roaring to a 2 3/4-length victory Saturday at Hollywood Park in the Grade 2, $250,000 Citation Handicap for older turf horses.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Pacific Ocean, making his first start in Southern California, took the lead right out of the gate and never looked back, posting a front-running victory on Saturday at Hollywood Park in the Grade 3, $100,000 Vernon O. Underwood Stakes, a race marred by the postrace death of Irrefutable.

Hayley’s Halo continued her dominance of New Mexico’s filly and mare ranks Saturday, when she picked off her sixth stakes win of the year in the $55,000 Zia Park Distaff.

The six-furlong race was one of the meet’s top offerings for fillies and mares.

Hayley’s Halo ($3.60), who had won four straight stakes heading into the Zia Distaff, broke well Saturday and easily moved to the lead. She set fractions of 22.68 seconds for the opening quarter and 45.65 for the half-mile before going on to a one-length win in 1:10.10.

Hot on Top posted a stunning upset in Saturday’s $49,508 Arizona Breeders’ Futurity (filly division) at Turf Paradise, toppling the previously unbeaten Page Springs and notching her first stakes win.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Let the comparisons begin. Gemologist followed in the early footsteps of a WinStar Farm colt named Super Saver by posting a hard-fought victory Saturday in the 85th running of the Grade 2, $178,200 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs, remaining unbeaten in the process while evoking this obvious bit of history: Super Saver, also owned by WinStar and trained by Todd Pletcher, won the KJC before returning to capture the Kentucky Derby the following spring.