DEL MAR, Calif. – Dancing in Silks can restore his reputation as one of the nation’s leading sprinters in Wednesday’s $75,000 Pirate’s Bounty Stakes at Del Mar.

Last year, Dancing in Silks won the Pirate’s Bounty, the second victory of a four-race win streak that ended with a surprise win at 25-1 in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Patrick Valenzuela does not get very far around Del Mar without someone shouting at him.

These aren’t the stereotypical racetrack fans, barking at a jockey after losing a race. What Valenzuela hears are shouts of encouragement as he walks the path from the jockeys’ room to the paddock, or from the racetrack back to the jockeys’ room.

“I’ve got so many people saying, ‘P. Val, it’s great to have you back,’ ” he said on a recent afternoon. “I feed off that. It makes you feel so much better. It keeps you working.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Paul Buttigieg already had been enjoying a career year as a trainer, owner, and breeder. On Sunday, Buttigieg added the exclamation mark with his first stakes winner of the meeting as Officeinthevalley captured the $125,800 Vice Regent for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds.

“It feels great,” Buttigieg said after watching Officeinthevalley prevail by 2 1/4 lengths in the stakes that was run over one mile of turf rated firm but undoubtedly was a touch less so after heavy rainfall in recent days.

Millwright looks like the one to beat in a $22,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up that will serve as the feature race at Northlands Park on Wednesday. The 6 1/2-furlong dash drew six horses and will go as race 7.

Catlaunch led every step of the way en route to a handy two-length win over his six Ohio-bred rivals in the $75,000 Governors Buckeye Cup Stakes at Thistledown on Saturday afternoon. Smarmy trailed for five furlongs then rallied steadily to be second in the 1 1/4-mile srace, 5 3/4 lengths in front of O'Rian, who was third.

Catlaunch, a 9-year-old gelding by Noble Cat, is owned by his breeder, Scioto Farm and is trained by Ivan Vasquez. He got the 10 furlongs in 2:07.10 over the fast track and returned $3. Luis A. Gonzalez was the rider.

Double Down Special won the most prestigious, and richest, race of his career in Sunday’s $1,548,076 All American Derby at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico.

The 440-yard All American Derby was the richest derby in Quarter Horse racing history.

Double Down Special ($4) finished a neck in front of Apollitical Jess in 21.23 seconds. Apollitical Jess was 1 1/4 lengths clear of third-place finisher Smokey Stone.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Twirling Candy survived his own immaturity and a stewards’ inquiry when he rolled to a 3 1/4-length victory on Sunday in the Grade 2, $300,000 Del Mar Derby, which ran his record to a perfect 4 for 4.

Twirling Candy ($2.40), the overwhelming favorite, proved much best at the end of an eventful 1 1/8 miles on turf, which saw him bolt five furlongs from the wire into the path of Summer Movie, who was second at the time but wound up last in the field of six 3-year-olds.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Saturday’s pick six at Del Mar returned $35,553 on a day when bettors added $5,059,121 to the pool while chasing a track record three-day pick six carryover of $1,597,470.

The pick six was not hit from Wednesday through Friday, but there were 124 winning tickets on Saturday.

The winning horses in Saturday’s pick six were Movie Duty ($7.40), May Day Rose ($3.20), Dreamed to Dream ($8.40), Tell a Kelly ($11.20), Details R Sketchy ($10.80), and Harmony’s Hope ($22.40).

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Todd Pletcher needed four horses to defeat Bob Baffert’s one in Sunday’s Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes.

R Heat Lightning, the least regarded of the Pletcher quartet by the betting public, rallied from last and motored past a leg-weary Alienation outside the sixteenth pole en route to a four-length victory in the $250,000 Spinaway at Saratoga. The Baffert-trained Alienation, who was part of a hot early pace, held second by 2 1/2 lengths over the Pletcher-trained Valiant Passion.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Get Serious turned in one of the gutsiest efforts of his career Sunday to win the Grade 3, $197,500 Red Bank Stakes on the turf at Monmouth Park.

Nothing went his way, and yet the 6-year-old New York-bred gelding prevailed by a neck over Nownownow for his third graded stakes win of the meet before 16,017 on a spectacular early fall afternoon on the Jersey Shore.

Get Serious stumbled badly at the break. He quickly recovered, but that miscue let At the Disco seize the lead.