SHAKOPEE, Minn. – Graded stakes winner Atta Boy Roy seized the lead from front -runner Humble Smarty at the half-mile pole and went on to capture the $35,000 Shot of Gold Stakes on closing day Sunday at Canterbury Park.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Indian Evening made an eye-catching move on the turn under Tyler Pizarro, en route to an convincing score in the $152,700 Swynford Stakes for 2-year-olds at Woodbine on Sunday.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Lake Placid winner Hungry Island and beaten Lake Placid favorite Winter Memories both put in workouts Sunday morning at Belmont Park in preparation for their rematch in next Saturday’s Grade 1 Garden City Stakes.

 Hungry Island, who has won four consecutive races, breezed at daybreak on Belmont’s main track, going four furlongs in 47.43 seconds and galloping out five furlongs in 1:00.08 for trainer Shug McGaughey.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Jockey Martin Garcia is off all his mounts at Hastings on Sunday because he wasn’t able to secure the proper work permits required to ride in Canada.

Garcia had mounts in four of the six stakes races carded, including Hurricane Lake in the Grade 3, $200,000 British Columbia Derby.

Trainer Mike Mitchell named local journeyman Frank Fuentes to replace Garcia on Hurricane Lake.

BOSSIER CITY, La.- Trainer Bob Baffert said on Sunday morning that Prayer for Relief has put himself in position for a start in the Breeders’ Cup Classic after winning his third consecutive graded stakes in the Super Derby on Saturday. The horse wired the field in the Grade 2, $500,000 race at Louisiana Downs, and earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 98. The number equaled the career-best figure he had put up one start earlier in the Grade 2 West Virginia Derby.

Apprentice rider Aparna Battula, 24, is expected to miss six to eight weeks after sustaining a compression fracture in her back in a spill during Friday’s fourth race at Laurel Park.

Battula was injured when her mount, Just Once, clipped heels with Basketball Belle near the quarter pole and the jockey was thrown to the ground.

ELMONT, N.Y. - On the day Belmont Park was to host the 36^th running of the Ashley T. Cole Handicap, a two-time winner of the race was retired.

 The 8-year-old Banrock, who won the Cole in 2008-09, will not run again, trainer Tom Bush confirmed Sunday. Banrock was diagnosed with an unspecified viral disease. He spent about two weeks at the Mid Atlantic Equine Medical Center in Ringoes, N.J., before returning to Bush’s Belmont Park barn earlier in the week.

Treasured Kitten, one of four Alberta invaders in a field of five, moved into serious contention midway through the 1 1/16-mile Saskatchewan Derby and went on to score by 2 1/2 lengths in the $25,000 closing-day feature at Marquis Downs.

Ridden by Heribert  Martinez and trained by Craig Smith, Treasured Kitten had won his maiden in his last start at Northlands Park and returned $7.20 as the second choice.

Appealing Trip finished second as the odds-on favorite, three lengths clear of local hopeful Striking Time, with Joker Lake and Dash to My Tune rounding out the field.

Big Blue Caboose, one of three 3-year-olds in a field of 12, took charge early and was never seriously threatened en route to a two-length victory in Saturday evening’s $50,000 Gold Cup at Assiniboia Downs.

Jocelyne Kenny rode Big Blue Caboose, who is trained by Jerry Gourneau and had burst into prominence when finishing second in the Manitoba Derby over the same 1 1/8-mile distance.

Alisal, who had been racing at Woodbine, closed to finish second, 1 1/2 lengths in front of Southern Alliance.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – The era of giving 2-year-olds ample race experience before jumping them into stakes competition has come and gone, and the first two across the wire Saturday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Arlington-Washington Futurity, Shared Property and Take Charge Indy, both were coming off a debut win in a maiden race. Talent trumped experience, and both the winner and runner-up look good enough to merit attention as summer turns to fall.