Wildcat Frankie had a four-length lead with a furlong to go in the $71,540 Rutgers Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday. Then Soaring Empire began to roll.

Soaring Empire, under Pablo Fragoso, came from a distant last place in the Rutgers, a six-furlong race for 3-year-olds, and got up in the shadow of the wire to edge Wildcat Frankie by three-quarters of a length. Partyallnightlong, the even-money favorite, finished third.

Trained by Cam Gambolati, Soaring Empire covered the distance in 1:08.27. He paid $8.

Blind Date came through as the 3-5 favorite in the $50,000 All Brandy at Laurel on Saturday, but Ask the Moon made her work.

Ask the Moon opened up in midstretch of the All Brandy, but Blind Date ran her down under Erick Rodriguez to win the one-mile race for Maryland-bred fillies and mares by three-quarters of a length. Ask the Moon finished 1 3/4 lengths in front of Love's Blush, who was third in the field of seven.

Blind Date, a 4-year-old Not for Love filly owned by William Backer and trained by Hamilton Smith, covered the mile in 1:38.06. She paid $3.20
 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Goldikova a made history Saturday at Churchill Downs, becoming the first horse to win three Breeders' Cup races after surging through the stretch to a convincing 1 3/4-length victory over two-time Eclipse Award winner Gio Ponti in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Mile.

Goldikova, an Irish-bred daughter of Anabaa, had captured the 2008 and 2009 editions of the Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita. Now 5, she is trained by Freddy Head for the partnership of Alain and Gerard Werthheimer.

ALBANY, Calif. - The favored Cathy's Crunches ($5) was virtually unchallenged in an easy wire-to-wire victory in the six-furlong $50,900 Golden Gate Debutante on Saturday at Golden Gate Fields.

The well-traveled 2-year-old filly trained by Jerry Hollendorfer was running on her fourth track in five career starts. She began her career with a maiden claiming victory at Calder, then ran twice at Del Mar after being purchased by Hollendorfer and Mark DeDomenico and was second in her last start at Philadelphia Park.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It takes something special to make trainer Todd Pletcher emotional. Uncle Mo confirmed Saturday that he is indeed something special.

Uncle Mo not only crowned himself the 2-year-old champion but also stamped himself the winter-book favorite for next year’s Kentucky Derby with a dominant 4 1/4-length victory over Boys At Tosconova in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs. It was six lengths back to Rogue Romance in third.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Bret Calhoun kept downplaying the foot abscess that threatened to prevent Chamberlain Bridge from starting as one of the favorites in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. And after the 6-year-old gelding stormed to victory Saturday in the five-furlong race, giving Calhoun and jockey Jamie Theriot their second BC victory in as many days, the 46-year-old trainer proved just how right he was.

Bettors poured $5,240,640 into the pick six pool linking the last six races on Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup card as they chased a first-ever carryover in the wager.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer David Fawkes did his homework. Jockey Eibar Coa followed his instructions perfectly. And Big Drama did the rest.

Racing on the lead but well off the rail, Big Drama led throughout to register a 1 1/2-length victory over the 23-1 outsider Hamazing Destiny in Saturday's $2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint. Smiling Tiger pressed the pace and outlasted the fast-closing Supreme Summit for third.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Rough Sailing, who slipped and fell going into the first turn of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, had to be euthanized shortly after the race because of a broken shoulder, according to Hilary Pridham, assistant to trainer Mike Stidham. Pridham said three veterinarians had examined Rough Sailing when the horse was brought back to the barn housing Stidham’s horses on the Churchill backstretch, and all had determined through feeling the affected area that the shoulder had been badly fractured, and that there was no chance to save the horse.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Distinctive Dixie ran fresh and strong off a four-month layoff, powering away to a 1 1/2-length victory over Third Dawn in the Grade 2, $171,900 Chilukki Stakes, the top secondary feature on the Saturday Breeders’ Cup undercard at Churchill Downs.

Trained by Wally Dollase for the Bob and Beverly Lewis Trust, Distinctive Dixie returned $16.40 in her first start since finishing third in a small Indiana Downs stakes in early July.