Black Diamond Cat and Accredit, a pair of sprinters who were winless on turf, capitalized when Monday’s $75,000 Bob Umphrey Turf Sprint was transferred from grass to Calder’s main track to run one-two, triggering a $1,018 trifecta for a $2 wager. 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The last time Churchill Downs ended a meet with a big weekend, Charlie Lopresti drove home to Lexington in bitter disappointment. Lopresti sent out Successful Dan to finish first in the Grade 1 Clark Handicap last November, only to see the horse disqualified to third.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Roaring Lion defended his title in the $75,000 Mr. Prospector Stakes, holding off 1-2 favorite Sean Avery on Independence Day at Monmouth Park.

Owned by the Repole Stable, Roaring Lion made a winning debut for trainer Todd Pletcher. Bruce Levine was in charge last year when Roaring Lion beat Wildcat Brief by a nose.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Owner Bobby Flay and trainer Todd Pletcher hemmed and hawed for two days before ultimately deciding to run Her Smile in Monday's $250,000 Prioress Stakes at Belmont Park.

At 11 a.m. Monday, they finally agreed to give it a shot. Six hours later, Flay was rewarded with his first Grade 1 victory as an owner as Her Smile, taking advantage of a hotly contested pace, rallied powerfully along the rail in the stretch under Javier Castellano to win the Prioress by one-half length.

Daveron pulled away to a 2 1/4-length victory over Gitchee Goomie on Monday in the $200,000 Dr. James Penny Memorial Handicap for fillies and mares on the turf at Parx Racing.

A 6-year-old bred in Germany, Daveron ($11) posted her third win in the last four races. She is 2 for 2 on the season, beating Gitchee Goomie both times.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Uncle Mo, last year’s 2-year-old champion who missed the Kentucky Derby because of a rare liver disease, has recently started galloping and is expected to ship to Saratoga next Monday, according to trainer Todd Pletcher.

Uncle Mo has been based at WinStar Farm in Kentucky since May 9 and started jogging on June 24.

“Excellent so far,” Pletcher said when asked how Uncle Mo was doing.

Pletcher wouldn’t say Uncle Mo was ahead of schedule, because “we didn’t really have a schedule.”

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Todd Pletcher said he could find no plausible excuse for Hilda’s Passion’s disappointing sixth-place finish as the 1-4 favorite in Sunday’s Grade 2 Bed o’ Roses Handicap at Belmont and plans to move forward to the Grade 1 Ballerina at Saratoga on Aug. 27.

“The only explanation I would have is I don’t think she liked the surface, which obviously was playing pretty slow,” Pletcher said. “Besides that, we don’t see any other physical explanation for it at this point. Just got to throw it out and regroup – point for the Ballerina and see what happens.

MIAMI – There were plenty of surprises when entries were drawn Monday for Saturday’s Summit of Speed program, Calder Race Course’s marquee event featuring four graded sprint stakes.

Two horses were unexpected supplements to the Grade 3 Azalea, which drew a field of only six 3-year-old fillies: the undefeated Just Louise, trained by Dale Romans, and May Day Rose, from the barn of trainer Bob Baffert.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The rematch, or more accurately, the rubber match, is set.

Gio Ponti and Mission Approved, who have split decisions in Grade 1 stakes – albeit 11 months apart – will meet for the third time in Saturday’s $600,000 Man o’ War, the final Grade 1 event of the Belmont spring/summer meet. A field of seven was entered for the Man o’ War, including the Irish shipper Cape Blanco, a multiple Group 1 winner.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. – In an attempt to ease the financial hardship for horsemen affected by races canceled because of a state shutdown in Minnesota, Canterbury Park and the Minnesota Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association have agreed to a plan that will allow some purse money to flow to horsemen.

Speaking at a general membership meeting of the Minnesota HBPA on Monday, Randy Sampson, president and CEO of Canterbury Park, and Tom Metzen Sr., the HBPA president, announced details of the program.