DEL MAR, Calif. – After racing on three continents in the last year, Princess Taylor seems to have found a home in Southern California.

Friday, she won the first stakes of her career, and first race in nearly 23 months, in the $84,775 TOC and CTT Handicap at Del Mar. In winning the turf race for fillies and mares over 1 3/8 miles, she surprised trainer Paddy Gallagher by stalking pacesetter Gripsholm Castle, instead of leading. Princess Taylor rallied through the stretch to win by a half-length.

“I didn’t know she could do that,” Gallagher said.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The multiple Grade 1-winning 3-year-old filly Champagne d’Oro will make her next start in the Grade 3, $400,000 Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes on Sept. 11, trainer Eric Guillot said Saturday.

The Masters, run at 6 1/2 furlongs, will be her final prep for the $1  million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – There were not enough entries to card either one of the two overnight stakes scheduled for Monday at Saratoga, so the feature on a 10-race card is a second-level allowance race for older males going 1 1/8 miles on the main track.

Handicappers must decide whether Glenwood Canyon will bounce off his stellar second-place performance to Convocation last time at this level, or whether he can take a step forward. Al Stall, the trainer of Glenwood Canyon, sees all positive signs in the gelding since the race.

Golden Stripe, who had towered over her opposition on paper, lived up to that notice on the racetrack as she waltzed to an 18 1/4-length victory in the $50,000 Distaff Stakes at Assiniboia Downs on Friday evening.

A homebred who is owned by K-5 Stable and is trained by Shelley Brown, Golden Stripe had been running very well in open filly and mare competition and was facing fellow Manitoba-breds in the one-mile Distaff.

With Gary Baze along for the ride, Golden Stripe went to the front early and improved her position as the 1-5 favorite.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Bill Harris missed sweeping the Friday's Challenge Series races at Prairie Meadows by a head. The finals of the Challenge Championships will be held Nov. 20 at the Fair Grounds.

"We were very happy, we got two more qualified for New Orleans," said Harris.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Princess Taylor reached the winner’s circle for the first time in nearly two years in Friday’s $84,775 TOC and CTT Handicap at Del Mar.

Sent off as a strong favorite following a third-place finish to Zenyatta in the Grade 1 Clement Hirsch Stakes here on Aug. 7, Princess Taylor ($3.20) caught pacesetter Gripsholm Castle in the final furlong and held off Catsalot to win by a half-length. Ridden by Victor Espinoza, Princess Taylor ran 1 3-8 miles on turf in 2:14.83.

Dan Illman and Mike Beer are joined by Harvey Pack to take a look at Saratoga's Saturday pick four. Stay tuned for new videos every Friday throughout the meet and find more in DRF's Saratoga section.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The ability to relax early enabled Get Stormy to kick home strong late as he scored a rather easy 2 3/4-length victory in Friday's Grade 2, $200,000 Bernard Baruch Handicap at Saratoga.

National Kid, who set the early pace, held second, one length ahead of Radical Sabbatical. It was another three lengths to Sudden War in fourth.

OCEANPORT, N.J. The unbeaten Vengeful Wildcat is on target for the Grade 3, $150,000 Sapling Stakes, one of the final graded events of Monmouth Park’s 2010 meet.

The summer meet ends Labor Day with a flurry of stakes on the final weekend.

The Sapling, the track’s top event for 2-year-olds, and the $100,000 Twin Lights Stakes top the card on Saturday, Sept. 4.

The Grade 3, $200,000 Red Bank at one mile on the turf and the $100,000 Icecapade for sprinters headline the Sunday card.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Fatal Bullet has had trouble mounting a consistent campaign this season.

On Sunday, Fatal Bullet will try his hand on the turf when he starts on that surface for the second time in his career in the Grade 2, $200,000 Play the King Stakes at seven furlongs.

“We would have liked to run him on the Polytrack, but there were no races anywhere for him,” said Reade Baker, who trains Fatal Bullet for the Bear Stable of Danny Dion.

“The program here is so pro-turf that we found it necessary to give him one more chance on the surface.”