Fugitive Angel used a ground-saving trip under jockey Mario Pino to take the $74,625 Ambassador of Luck for female Pennsylvania-breds at Presque Isle Downs on Saturday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Queen’splatekitten ($3.30) prepped for the $1 million Queen’s Plate with an impressive score Saturday at Woodbine in the $171,600 Marine Stakes.

Queen’splatekitten rated kindly off a moderate pace in the 1 1/16-mile route for 3-year-olds. He trailed the six-horse field heading into the far turn, before launching an eye-catching four-wide bid at the three-eighths pole.

BALTIMORE - The first stage of trainer Dale Romans’s revised three-phase plan for his turf star Paddy O’Prado went to expectations Saturday at Pimlico, as the heavily favored gray 4-year-old colt rallied from last under Kent Desormeaux to win the Grade 2, $200,000 Dixie Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths over Baryshnikov.

Baryshnikov finished two lengths ahead of Bim Bam, who was followed in the order of finish by Pocket Patch, Slews Answer, Lonely Whistle and Eighttofasttocatch.

When Saturday’s Pine Creek Stakes was moved from 7 1/2 furlongs on the turf course to one mile on the main track, seven of the 11 3-year-old fillies scheduled to run were scratched, including trainer Mike Stidham’s horse Cryptocandiac.

Stidham, however, still had Snow Fall left in the four-horse field and she proved a more than adequate  back-up plan.

BALTIMORE – It was same time, next year on Saturday at Pimlico for trainer Al Stall Jr. and owner Adele Dilschneider. One year after winning the William Donald Schaefer Stakes with Blame, the eventual Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, they struck again Saturday at Pimlico with Apart, who tenaciously outfought Colizeo for a neck win in the Grade 3, $100,000 race for older horses.

BALTMORE – A six-month layoff, a demanding turf course and an exorbitant weight spread proved too much for defending Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Shared Account to overcome Saturday as she could manage no better than a fourth-place finish behind No Explaining in Saturday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Gallorette Handicap at Pimlico.

When Kentucky-based trainer Joe Woodard brings a horse to Mountaineer Racetrack in West Viginia, he means business.

Woodard, a phenomenal 12 for 28 (43 percent) with his Mountaineer imports already this season, stands an excellent chance of improving on those impressive statistics when he sends out the 4-year-old Whatthecatdrugin for Tuesday night’s featured ninth race, a second-level allowance at a mile and 70 yards on the main track.

BALTIMORE – Ventana not only survived a fierce challenge from longshot Immortal Eyes to prevail by a neck following a stretch-long duel, but also a stewards’ inquiry and a jockey objection in capturing the Grade 3, $100,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap on the Preakness undercard Saturday at Pimlico.

Ventana, the favorite in a field of nine older horses, returned $5.20 after finishing six furlongs in 1:09.88 over a fast track.

Trainer Mark Hennig calls his 3-year-old Chinglish a slow-learner. But, after watching him win Saturday’s $100,000 James Murphy Stakes for 3-year-olds at Pimlico, Hennig said the son of War Front is finally “getting it together.”

BALTIMORE – Vengeful Wildcat wore down Chipshot for a popular victory as the 2-1 favorite Saturday in the second running of the $100,000 Chick Lang Stakes for 3-year-olds at Pimlico Race Course.