Treat Gently, a 5-year-old mare coming off dull next-to-last-place finishes in the Santa Ana Handicap and the Jenny Wiley, rebounded to win the 52nd running of the at Belmont Park on Saturday.

Rediscovering the form that landed her a win in the Group 2 Prix de Malleret as a 3-year-old in France nearly two years ago, Treat Gently took over from pacesetter Pari turning for home and drove clear under Kent Desormeaux to win by 4 1/2 lengths. Nehantic Kat. rallied from last to edge 5-2 second choice Bubbly Jane for second by a nose.

NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - Christian Pilares drove Gathering Dreams through a very tight opening along the rail to make the lead at the eighth pole and drew off to a 2 3/4-length win win in the field of 10 Ohio-bred females in the $50,000, six-furlong Dr. T F. Classen Memorial Stakes at Thistledown on Saturday afternoon.

Gathering Dreams, a bay 4-year-old daughter of Mercer Mill, out of Touched Bythe Lite, by Lite Idea, is owned by Carol Weir and trained by Joe Shuman. She got the six furlongs in 1:12.60 over the good race track and returned $13.40 win mutuel.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Impossible Time mowed down the leaders at the sixteenth pole to notch her first stakes in the six-furlong, at Woodbine on Saturday.

Impossible Time ($10) took the long way around from the back of the pack to score by 2 1/2 lengths over the pacemaker, Dash It Dreamer. Favored Bent Attorney finished another half-length back in third in the eight-horse field of Ontario-sired fillies and mares.

Jono Jones rode the Roger Attfield-trained Impossible Time, who covered the distance in 1:08.79 and earned $75,000 for owner/breeder Charles Fipke.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - The buzz building for the 50-day, $50 million meet at Monmouth Park turned into a thunderous roar as opening day exceeded all expectations.

Monmouth lured 17,903 fans on Saturday, blowing away last year's opening-day turnout of 10,292. And they brought their wallets. The combined handle from all sources was $9,357,444, trouncing last year's $4,279,438. It was the highest handle in Monmouth history other than Haskell Day or during the Breeders' Cup weekend in 2007.

By any standard, the day was a huge success.

Few 9-year-old racehorses are even still running, let alone capable of maintaining their peak form for an extended period of time. Yet the turf specialist Bon Marie has not only defied Father Time, but continues to win up and down the East Coast.

Bon Marie, who has put together a seven-race winning streak at five different tracks, goes for his eighth consecutive victory in Monday's ninth race at Delaware Park. He's part of a 14-horse field, including one also-eligible and another entered for the main track, in a 7 1/2-furlong turf race for $25,000 claimers.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Garrett Gomez was taken to a local hospital after being unseated at the start of the seventh race on Saturday at Monmouth Park.

Jadal stumbled out of the gate in the mile and 70-yard race, dumping Gomez who fell hard to the track and was clipped in the head by the riderless colt.

The ambulance team rushed to assist Gomez, who was laying in the shadow of the finish line. He was quickly removed onto a stretcher and taken to the track's medical station.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- General Quarters has joined the prospective cast for the June 12 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs, with owner-trainer Tom McCarthy saying he needed to find a suitable stepping-stone for the 4-year-old colt toward the Aug. 21 Arlington Million.

General Quarters won the Grade 1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic on the May 1 Kentucky Derby undercard in his last start. McCarthy already has targeted the July 17 Arlington Handicap on the Arlington Park turf as a final prerace prep but said he needs to get a race into the colt before then.

MI Developments, the company that took over the racing assets of the bankrupt racetrack concern Magna Entertainment, has placed a Monday deadline for bidders interested in buying the Cleveland-area racetrack Thistledown, according to officials of the track. The sealed-bid auction will be held Tuesday

ALBANY, Calif. - Golden Gate Fields has canceled live racing for this Wednesday.

The track received approval from the California Horse Racing Board to cancel Wednesday racing after unsuccessfully attempting to draw both its Wednesday and Thursday cards on Friday. An eight-race Thursday card was drawn with 58 entrants, an average of 7.25 horses per race.

The cancellation means that Golden Gate will run five days this week instead of six. It will offer live racing Thursday through Monday's Memorial Day holiday. The track will be open for simulcast wagering on Wednesday.

The California Horse Racing Board passed a motion on Thursday stating that Oak Tree Racing Association holds racing dates for five weeks this fall, and can race at any Thoroughbred track in Southern California if a lease agreement with its longtime landlord Santa Anita Park is not reached.

Oak Tree, a not-for-profit company, was scheduled to race at Santa Anita from Sept. 29 to Oct. 31, but its lease with Magna International Developments, the owner of Santa Anita, was voided by Magna last week.