INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Gypsy’s Warning saved her best race of 2010 for her last race of 2010.

In Friday’s Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes, Gypsy’s Warning rallied from fifth in a field of seven to win the $250,000 mile turf race by 1 1/4 lengths over the multiple stakes winner Wasted Tears. The win left trainer Graham Motion certain that the distance is ideal for Gypsy’s Warning.

“The mile is really right up this filly’s street,” he said by phone from Maryland after the race. “She’s a really honest filly. This is pretty exciting stuff.”

Jockey Luis Martinez Jr. won the 1,000th race of his career on Friday when he guided Turnpike Mike to victory in the fourth race at Beulah Park, an Ohio-bred optional claiming race.

Martinez, who began his career in earnest in 1998 after riding in a single race in 1997, came back to win the seventh race aboard Hum That Tune

Watkins Glen, who was good enough to finish second as a maiden in a minor stakes at Saratoga, and Interrogate, who has yet to run as well on dirt as she did in three starts on a synthetic surface, are among seven 2-year-old fillies all seeking their second lifetime victory in Monday’s featured ninth race at Parx Racing.

The first-level allowance, with a purse of $47,000, will be contested at six furlongs on the main track.

ALBANY, Calif. - Cigar Man won a head bob from Hot Chaco to take the Grade 3, $100,900 All American Handicap at Golden Gate Fields on Friday to provide trainer Vladimir Cerin and jockey Juan Hernandez with milestone victories.

Cigar Man unleashed a late rally, outfinishing Hot Chaco, who caught pacesetting favorite Our Nautique inside the sixteenth pole in the 1 1/8-mile race. The victory was the first stakes win for the 5-year-old Drewman gelding and provided Cerin with his 1,000th training victory. It also marked the first U.S. stakes victory by the 18-year-old Hernandez.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Eight weeks after she inherited the lead and held on to finish third in the Grade 1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Hollywood Park, Gypsy’s Warning was the beneficiary of a perfect trip in Friday’s $250,000 Matriarch Stakes.

The win in the Grade 1 Matriarch was an instant milestone for the 5-year-old South African-bred Gypsy’s Warning. She won the Group 1 South Africa Fillies Classic in March 2009, but the Matriarch was her first win at the highest level in the United States.

She’s All In closed strongest of all to win her third consecutive race in the $50,000 Ladies on the Lawn at Remington Park on Friday. The 7 1/2-furlong turf race was one of two Oklahoma-bred stakes on the special daytime card.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A very roughly-run 136th running of the Grade 1 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs resulted in a complicated post-race scenario and, ultimately, two disqualifications for separate incidents, with Giant Oak being awarded victory after the first-place finisher, Successful Dan, was deemed guilty of interference in the stretch.

NEW ORLEANS – Hallway had faced open competition in two starts at Woodbine over the summer, and he found the move back to Louisiana-bred racing to his liking, winning an off-the-turf edition of the Mr. Sulu Stakes at cold, wet Fair Ground Race Course late Friday afternoon.

Mary Wiley-Wagner, a cancer survivor who came out of retirement after May’s inaugural Lady Legends for the Cure Race at Pimlico, won for the first time in nearly 14 years in Friday’s last race at Laurel Park. Wiley-Wagner, 47, promptly announced she was retiring again.

Sonata Brae ($10.40) defeated 10 other maiden claimers, rallying from off the pace to prevail by three-quarters of a length. Wiley-Wagner rode the 3-year-old filly Sonata Brae, trained by Tim Keefe, in all five career starts, including four consecutive in-the-money finishes.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Spacy Tracy continued her transformation from a solid turf horse to perhaps an even better dirt horse with a three-quarter-length victory over Our Khrysty in Friday’s Grade 2, $150,000 Top Flight Handicap at Aqueduct. It was 1 1/4 lengths back to pacesetter Qualia in third.