Heavy favorites El Rancho and Stormy Crystal held up their end, winning their respective divisions of Turf Paradise’s ATBA Fall Sales Stakes on Saturday.

Five days before Researcher won the $1 million Charles Town Classic for the second time last April, he was sold to Kinross Corp., leaving trainer Jeff Runco without the best horse in his barn. It hasn’t taken Runco long to reload, however.

Runco saddled three stakes winners on Saturday night’s 24th West Virginia Breeders’ Classic program for West Virginia-breds at Charles Town, highlighted by a 57-1 upset by the 4-year-old colt Sea Rescue in the featured $500,000 Classic.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Fantastic Pick, the winner of a $50,000 claiming race at Del Mar in July, is worth much more now.

Saturday, Fantastic Pick won for the third time in his last four starts in the $150,000 Oak Tree Derby. He also won an optional claimer on Aug. 15 in which he was eligible to be claimed for $80,000. The only loss in that sequence was a fourth behind Twirling Candy in the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby on Sept. 5.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The Aidan O’Brien-trained Joshua Tree barely held off two other European raiders, Mores Wells and Redwood, to capture the Grade 1, $2 million Canadian International at Woodbine Saturday.

MIAMI - Reprized Halo, the longest price on the board at 45-1, pulled off one of the biggest shockers in the long history of the Florida Stallion Stakes when he finished full of run under apprentice jockey Jose Alvarez to register a 1 1/2-length victory over Gourmet Dinner, foiling his bid  to sweep the open division of the Stallion series, in Saturday's In Reality Stakes at Calder.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The betting public expected Harmonious to win Saturday’s Grade 1, $400,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, making her the favorite over the likes of Evening Jewel and Check the Label. But even her most fervent backer would have had difficulty envisioning the ease in which she would take Saturday’s race before a crowd of 23,659 at Keeneland.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Todd Got Even swept to a two-length victory Saturday in the $76,650 Eillo Stakes at Monmouth Park. A 5-year-old trained by Scott Volk, Todd Got Even angled six wide turning for home and continued that rally down the center of the track for his first stakes victory.

Written in Stone, who had taken the lead with an inside move on the turn, was second with Evenings End third.

Todd Got Even ($7) posted his second straight win, and fourth in nine starts this year. Omar Figueroa was aboard as Todd Got Even, who ran the six furlongs in 1:10.97 on the fast track.

ELMONT, N.Y. - One week after winning three stakes races out of town, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin enjoyed stakes success in his own backyard as Eye of Taurus scored a dominant three-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Athenia Stakes at Belmont Park.

Mary’s Follies, the 2-1 favorite despite having been off for 11 months, rallied for second, 1 3/4 lengths ahead of Missit. She was followed in the order of finish by Strike the Bell, Miss Catalyst, Darjeeling, Giant Mover, Tottie, and Trix in the City.

MIAMI - Awesome Feather left little doubt as to her superiority in the local 2-year-old filly division and in the process earned herself a chance for national recognition on Breeders’ Cup day after completing a sweep of the filly division of the Florida Stallion Series with a convincing 8 1/4-length victory over eight overmatched rivals in Saturday’s $350,000 My Dear Girl Stakes at Calder.

Reggane trailed the field of 10 with slightly more than five furlongs to run but launched a steady rally which carried her to a one-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million E.P. Taylor Stakes at Woodbine.

One of eight European invaders in the 1 ¼-mile turf race for fillies and mares, Reggane outfinished local hopeful Miss Keller, who had hit the front in midstretch and briefly appeared to be headed for victory.