Imco Spirit made the leap from $12,500 claimer to $200,000 stakes winner on Sunday, when he set a track record in the Zia Park Distance Championship. He won by a half-length over pacesetter Schramsberg, while it was another 3 1/2 lengths back in third to favorite Quindici Man.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - A cooler head has given Washington Bridge a three-race winning streak, the latest being her graded stakes debut in Sunday’s $150,000 Bayakoa Handicap at Hollywood Park.

Earlier in her career, Washington Bridge was a nervous filly who did not always perform to expectations, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said. As her 3-year-old season has continued, she has calmed. The win in the Grade 2 Bayakoa Handicap proved how far she has progressed.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Pool Play captured the final stakes of the 167-day Woodbine meet Sunday under Patrick Husbands, coming from off a slow pace to prevail in the $177,400 Valedictory in cold and windy conditions.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Jockey Alan Garcia swept Sunday’s two juvenile stakes for New York-breds aboard double-digit priced longshots, winning one in a laugher and the other by a hard-fought half-length.

In the $65,000 East View Stakes for New York-bred fillies, Garcia put 26-1 shot Queen’s Harbor on the lead immediately out of the gate and the pair never looked back, winning the race by 4 1/2 lengths over previously undefeated Miss Valentine, the 4-5 favorite.

Jls Mr Bigtime flashed his speed back in August, when he set the fastest qualifying time for the All American Futurity for Quarter Horses at Ruidoso Downs. He was at it again Saturday night at Evangeline Downs, when he broke his own track record in the $526,593 Louisiana Quarter Horse Breeders Association Breeders’ Futurity.

Jls Mr Bigtime ($2.40) won the 400-yard race in 19.41 seconds, two weeks after winning his trial in 19.58.

ALBANY, Calif. – At the finish line, Cathy’s Crunches looked like an odds-on runner should, but with one-quarter mile to go in the $76,200 Corte Madera Stakes on Saturday at Golden Gate Fields, she looked beaten.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Left alone on the lead, Aggie Engineer proved impossible to catch in Saturday’s $100,000 Native Diver Handicap at Hollywood Park.

The result left winning jockey Joe Talamo surprised. He expected someone to challenge Aggie Engineer on the lead, but was never bothered, winning the Grade 3 Native Diver by 1 3/4 lengths over Spurrier.

Trainer Mike Biehler was hoping to see Stachys race closer to the pace than he had been in his recent starts in the $150,000 Zia Park Derby on Saturday, and the horse parlayed a stalking trip into a half-length win in the 1 1/16-mile race. Skip a Smile finished second, 4 3/4 lengths clear of third-place finisher Saratoga Yankee.

The Zia Park Derby was the first of a handful of stakes being run over the closing weekend of the meet, which ends on Tuesday.

Five seconds before the gate sprang open for the $100,000 Pat Whitworth Illinois Debutante at Hawthorne, Seans Silverdancer was showing her lack of seasoning, throwing her head and acting up in her stall. Then the race began, and Seans Silverdancer showed her talent. Setting a quick pace in the second start of her career, and her first around two turns, Seans Silverdancer dashed away from Point Your Finger at the top of the stretch and cruised to a 9 1/2-length victory in the Whitworth.

Chaplain put up the best performance of his career as the 6-year-old gelding stormed home from last to capture Saturday’s $25,000 Caballos del Sol at Turf Paradise.

Owned by Simon Hudy and trained by Robertino Diodoro, Chaplain, a son of Touch Gold, won for the fourth time in his last five starts, and obviously has a love affair with this track as he now has 5 wins in 6 local starts.