For the second year in a row, trainer Cody Anderson and owner-breeder Abe Brewster had a productive Fall Classic Day at Northlands Park on Saturday. Last year, they won three of the seven stakes races on the card. On Saturday, two of their horses came back to win, including Cool Ventura, who easily won the Alberta Breeders Handicap for older horses, the first of seven stakes races restricted to Alberta-breds. They also finished second with Cool Kahuna in the Alberta Premier's Futurity. All of the races were worth $50,000.

A chain-reaction bumping incident heading into the final turn led to the disqualification of odds-on favorite Applicant in the $50,000 Buffalo Stakes at Assiniboia Downs on Saturday evening.

There's a Place, who was not involved in the skirmishing, inherited the win in the one-mile Buffalo after finishing nine lengths behind Applicant in second place.

There's a Place, who had won her maiden over five furlongs last time out, was making her stakes debut for trainer Marvin Buffalo and jockey Tyrone Nelson. She returned $5.70 as the second choice.

POMONA, Calif. - The maiden filly Judge Joan stepped up in class Saturday at Fairplex Park, where she outlasted runner-up Repo and even-money favorite Well Deserved to win the in a three-way blanket finish.

Aaron Gryder rode Judge Joan ($20.80) to the nose victory over Repo. Well Deserved finished a head back in third in the 6 1/2-furlong stakes for 2-year-old fillies who were offered for sale at a Barretts auction.

BOSSIER CITY, La.- Regal Ransom is back. On Saturday he was a winner in his first start since the Kentucky Derby, when he cruised to an easy, front-running win in the at Louisiana Downs. Regal Ransom won by 1 1/4 lengths over Blame, while it was another 3 1/4 lengths back in third to Massone.

The Super Derby was one of six stakes worth a cumulative $1.2 million on the richest card of the meet at Louisiana Downs.

Lovely Daniella won her second race in a row Saturday, coming from far back to win the $50,000 Jack Betta Be Rite for New York-bred fillies and mares at Finger Lakes.

Classic Ramona led to upper stretch in the $73,600 Richmond at Hoosier Park on Saturday afternoon before being headed by Brean Can. Jockey Emanuel Cosme then asked Classic Ramona for her best, and she responded, drawing clear late to win the 1 1/16-mile event by a length.

FRANKLIN, Ky. - Horses away from racing for a year or more are typically unlikely winners. But Saturday at Kentucky Downs, such layoffs were, surprisingly, the path to victory.

Cloudy's Knight, unraced since finishing eighth in the Grade 1 Northern Dancer on Sept. 7 of last year at Woodbine, returned a winner in the featured - following Danzon's triumph in the Kentucky Cup Ladies earlier on the Kentucky Downs card.

ELMONT, N.Y. - As confident as trainer Stanley Hough was that Discreetly Mine would run well in the Grade 2 Futurity for juvenile colts Saturday at Belmont Park, he was even more steadfast in his belief that his filly Awesome Maria would run a strong race in the for juvenile fillies.

One race after Discreetly Mine finished second to odds-on favorite D' Funnybone in the Futurity, Awesome Maria lived up to Hough's expectations by scoring a 2 3/4-length victory in the $250,000 Matron. Touching Beauty finished second, by a nose over Worship the Moon.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Edgar Prado made the right Given the opportunity to ride D' Funnybone or Discreetly Mine in Saturday's , Prado chose D' Funnybone, who ended up defeating Discreetly Mine by 4 3/4 lengths in the $250,000 race for juvenile colts and geldings. It was eight lengths back to Thiskyhasnolimit in third.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Good and Lucky, debuting for trainer Michael Matz, rallied to edge a very game Actin Good by a half-length Saturday in the $70,000 Formal Gold Stakes at Monmouth Park.

Joe Bravo was aboard for his third winner of day, and meet-leading 16th stakes victory.

Good and Lucky ($9.20), in his first start since finishing fifth in the R.R.M. Carpenter Memorial Stakes at Delaware Park on July 18, trailed in the early stages as Actin Good set the pace under constant two- and three-horse pressure.