EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Muscle Massive edged Lucky Chucky by a half-length in the $1.5 million Hambletonian for 3-year-old trotters on Saturday at the Meadowlands Racetrack.

Driver Ron Pierce got his third Hambletonian win; trainer Jimmy Takter won the trotting classic for the second time. The time was 1:51 for the mile, the second fastest in the 85-year history of the stakes. Muscle Hill set the mark of 1:50.20 last year.

Muscle Massive got his fourth victory in eight starts this season. It was his sixth win in 14 career races.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Bill Mott added another accomplishment to his Hall of Fame career Saturday when he became just the ninth trainer in Thoroughbred racing to record 4,000 winners in North America. The milestone victory came when Mystic took the seventh race at Saratoga, a first-level allowance race on turf.

Mott, 57, joined a club that includes Dale Baird, Jack Van Berg, King Leatherbury, Jerry Hollendorfer, Steve Asmussen, Scott Lake, Richard Hazelton, and D. Wayne Lukas.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Rafael Bejarano needed one Friday evening to revive his Del Mar season.

Bejarano rode four winners on an eight-race program Friday. Along the way, Bejarano won the Grade  3 Sorrento Stakes on the highly regarded 2-year-old filly Wickedly Perfect and put a dent into jockey Joel Rosario’s lead in the standings.

Rosario began the day with an eight-race lead over Bejarano, but had only a five-race advantage after Friday. Bejarano was delighted by his four-win day, hoping the success could lead to even better results in coming days and weeks.

Lori Smock has a New Hampshire cell-phone number, a half-dozen mares boarded in Florida, a 25-horse string stabled at Hoosier Park in Indiana, and, for the first time, a set of horses spending the meet at Presque Isle Downs in western Pennsylvania. And Smock, from all appearances, has a major player for Tuesday’s featured seventh race at Presque Isle in comebacking Allie’s Event.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Saratoga meet has gotten better for trainer Seth Benzel. It could not have gotten much worse.

The first weekend of the meet, Giant Legacy, a promising 2-year-old trained by Benzel, suffered fatal injuries shortly after completing what would have been his final workout in preparation for his debut, which likely would have come on Saturday, on the undercard for the Whitney Handicap.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Jockey Jermaine Bridgmohan, kicked in the paddock before the third race Saturday at Saratoga, was discharged from Albany Medical Center shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday and has been cleared by doctors to ride, according to Dan Silver, director of communications and media relations for the New York Racing Association.

Bridgmohan was "kicked by his mount in the abdominal area," according to Silver. He was scheduled to ride first-time starter Cincinnati Kid, who was subsequently scratched.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Shug McGaughey thought enough of the Chilean import Casablanca Smile to run her in a Grade 3 stakes in her North American debut off a 4 1/2-month layoff. Casablanca Smile’s solid third-place finish in the Grade 3 All Along at Colonial Downs on June 19 validated McGaughey’s opinion of the filly.

With that race under her belt and meeting seemingly easier opponents, Casablanca Smile looks poised to win Monday’s $70,000 Signature Stallions Waya Stakes at Saratoga. The Waya, run at 1 1/2 miles over the inner turf course, drew a field of eight.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Sherriff Cogburn scored an impressive 9 1/2-length victory in the inaugural running of the Prairie Meadows Juvenile Mile on Friday night. The $60,000 stakes tested six 2 year olds over the distance of a mile.

Sherriff Cogburn went off as the 9-5 favorite, in this, his second career start. He was coming off a seven-length victory in a maiden race at Arlington Park.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Wickedly Perfect gave jockey Rafael Bejarano his fourth win on Friday with a game performance in the $150,000 Sorrento Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Del Mar.

Bejarano won the third through fifth races, did not ride the sixth, and returned to win the Grade 3 Sorrento. Sent off as the fourth choice, Wickedly Perfect ($13.80) was always near the front, stalking pacesetters Dawnie Macho and Final Mesa through a quick pace of 21.89 and 44.90 seconds.

Crow’s Nest, a 6-year-old gelding who was running for a $20,000 claiming tag as recently as June, scored the biggest victory of his 23-race career Friday night at Penn National Race Course when he upset the $75,000 Robellino Stakes for Pennsylvania-breds.