VANCOUVER, British Columbia – St Liams Halo moved to the top of the local handicap division with a convincing win in the $50,000 John Longden 6000 at Hastings on Monday.

ELMONT, N.Y. - More Than Real, who beat Winter Memories in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, worked four furlongs in 49.11 seconds over the yielding Belmont Park turf on Monday. She started her breeze behind stablemates More Than Minted and Driven by Solar and finished ahead of both at the finish.

Todd Pletcher, who trains More Than Real, said the filly is under consideration for the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 17. Pletcher said he must decide by June 6, because that’s the day North American horses are scheduled to ship to England.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Bear It’s Time ($3.80) parlayed an ideal stalking trip into a decisive score in the $125,000 Lady Angela Stakes on holiday Monday at Woodbine.

Robnpetertopaypaul set a tepid early pace with a strong wind at her back in the seven-furlong sprint for Ontario-sired 3-year-old fillies. Sinister Quill pressed the leader along the inside, and was steadied at the three-eighths pole, while Bear It’s Time tracked them on the outside.

ELMONT, N.Y. – A field of 11 is shaping up for next Monday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park, and five of those contenders put in their final major workouts Monday morning over the main track.

Trainer Todd Pletcher, who won his first Met Mile last year with Quality Road, worked a trio of Met Mile prospects on Monday including Caixa Eletronica, Aikenite, and Ibboyee.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Back at his best distance of one mile or thereabouts, Workin for Hops turned in his second straight strong performance winning the Hanshin Cup on Saturday at Arlington. The three-length victory marked his first win of the year, but Workin for Hops was coming off a good second-place finish to Get Stormy – subsequent winner of the Grade 1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic at Churchill – in the Grade 1 Maker’s Mark Mile over the Keeneland turf course.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Paso Doble has not enjoyed much stability during his career, spending time in five different barns before being shipped to Mark Casse in Florida this year.

But it would appear that Paso Doble, a 5-year-old gelding who races for the Centennial Farm (Niagara) syndicate, has found a home based on his impressive victory here in last Sunday’s $125,000 New Providence Stakes.

Purchased by his current owners last fall, Paso Doble finished the season here and then was sent to Casse in Florida.

Daily average handle at Turf Paradise was off for the recently concluded meet, with an increase in total ontrack handle and a decrease in total all-sources handle for the 155-day 2010-11 meeting, which ran eight days longer than the 2009-10 meeting. The meet at the Phoenix track began last Oct. 1 and ended May 8.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Youth, not to mention talent, may be served in Wednesday’s feature race at Belmont Park as Sky Blazer, the only 3-year-old in the field, faces a group of seemingly ordinary older males in a $53,000, first-level allowance at 1 1/16 miles on the inner turf course.

There is a pick-six carryover of $43,718 entering Wednesday’s card, and five of the six races in the sequence are scheduled for the turf, though intermittent rain is forecast throughout the week.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Dance to the Moon seems poised to find the winner’s circle in Wednesday’s seventh race at Woodbine, an Ontario-sired allowance for nonwinners of three. The seven-furlong event is the final leg of the pick four, which has a guaranteed pool of $75,000.

Dance to the Moon graduated in a seven-furlong maiden special on Oct. 31. Three weeks later, she doubled up in an Ontario-sired allowance, in which she beat a weak field after setting a sleepy pace. She failed to stay 1 1/16 miles on the frigid final day of the 2010 meet.

While the upset victory by Shackleford in the 136th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico denied Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom a chance to shoot for the Triple Crown, there is a good chance that the final leg of the Triple Crown, the June 11 Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park, will feature a showdown between the Derby and Preakness winners, a matchup that has not taken place in the Belmont since 2005.