MIAMI - Birdrun capped off the eight stakes Florida Million Day program with a decisive 4 1/2-length victory over the 4-5 favorite Duke of Mischief in the $150,000 Carl G. Rose Classic on Saturday at Calder.
Birdrun controlled the pace under deft handling by Rajiv Maragh and reasserted himself after being briefly headed by Duke of Mischief in early stretch. Duke of Mischief outlasted Dream Maestro to save second by a diminishing head.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Yankee Fourtune stayed unbeaten in five starts on grass when he ran away from 12 fellow 3-year-olds Saturday in the seventh running of the Grade 3, $121,900 Commonwealth Stakes at Churchill Downs.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Stunning Stag blew away a solid group of older runners at a surprisingly square price in the $171,000 Autumn Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack on Saturday.

Stunning Stag returned a generous $10.30, even though he won the allowance prep for the Grade 2 Autumn. He earned $108,000 for owner Janice Attard, the wife of trainer Sid Attard, who claimed him for $40,000 three years ago.  

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Loving Dove and Breathoffresheir captured the $70,000 divisions of the Jersey Juvenile for 2-year-olds on Saturday at Monmouth Park. The six-furlong Jersey Juvenile was the last major stakes of the season for New Jersey-breds.

Loving Dove ($10.40) won the colt division by 1 1/2 lengths over Porcini Prince. Trained by Greg Sacco, Loving Dove thrived on the return to statebred action after running in a pair of open stakes. Loving Dove split rivals with Elvis Trujillo aboard for his second win in five starts.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Roger Attfield has plundered New York’s stakes for fillies and mares all year, so it was only fitting he should send Mekong Melody down from Woodbine to capture Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Long Island Handicap at Aqueduct – the division’s final graded stakes of the year in New York.

New York shipper Catch a Thief repelled a stretch challenge from Baltimore Belle to earn the first stakes victory of her career in Saturday’s $50,000 Twixt at Laurel Park.

MIAMI – Pickapocket returned to the scene of one of the toughest losses of his career to register his gamest victory to date when he outlasted the even-money favorite Bim Bam by a nose to capture Saturday’s $125,000 Bonnie Heath Turf Cup at Calder. The Bonnie Heath was the third of eight stakes on Saturday’s Florida Million program.
   

Good recent sprint form on dirt is a scarce commodity among the nine 3-year-olds scheduled to contest Tuesday night’s ninth running of the $75,000 Sophomore Sprint Stakes at Mountaineer Racetrack.

MIAMI – Saturday was a memorable day at Calder Race Course. Not only was the track presenting one of its cornerstone events, the rich Florida Million day program, it was also honoring two of its own. Trainers Stanley Gold and David Fawkes and the connections of Awesome Feather and Big Drama were saluted in the winner’s circle following the afternoon’s second race for their victories at last week’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

Juan Vazquez, coming off his first leading trainer title at Delaware Park’s recently concluded meet, will try to beat one of his former trainees when he sends out the 3-year-old filly Bernadette’s Song to face the 5-year-old I’llthinkofsumthin in Monday’s feature at Parx Racing.

The 6 1/2-furlong sprint, a second-level allowance for fillies and mares, carries a purse of $48,000 and goes as the ninth of 10 races.