DEL MAR, Calif. - With two stakes wins in as many starts at Del Mar this summer, Excessive Blend has had a perfect meeting and left trainer Carla Gaines perfectly confused as to what to do with the rapidly improving 3-year-old filly.

Excessive Blend won the Fleet Treat Stakes for statebred filly sprinters on July 25. In Friday's $112,525 Sandy Blue Handicap, her first stakes appearance on turf, she turned in the best performance of her five-race career, storming clear in the final furlong to win the one-mile race by 1 1/2 lengths over Ultra Blend.

Double Malt ($2.90) took control on the far turn and then drew away in the stretch for a decisive score in the at Woodbine on Saturday.

Dancing Charm and Cataleenda vied through moderate fractions in the 1 1/16-mile contest for Ontario-sired 3-year-old fillies, while Double Malt assumed a stalking position.

Double Malt went three wide on the far turn and hit the front at the five-sixteenths pole en route to a 4 3/4-length win over Lunar Linda in a time of 1:44.75. Cataleenda faded to third, and Dancing Charm trailed in the four-horse field. Moonlit Beauty was scratched.

MIAMI - The quarantine that was imposed on one barn at Calder earlier this week was lifted Saturday after test results on an unidentified horse who died here Monday came back negative for any contagious diseases from the state lab in Tallahassee.

The quarantined barn housed horses trained by Stanley Ersoff, Steve Budhoo, and Jim Hatchett. All horses in that barn had been restricted from training with the general population as well as from racing since the quarantine began on Monday.

Louisiana Downs and its horsemen have reached an agreement on a longstanding purse overpayment issue that has led to an 8 percent increase in overnight purses at the track. The across-the-board boost was to go into effect with the program of Sunday, Aug. 23.

The increase puts overnight purses at $150,000 a day, said Trent McIntosh, director of racing and racing secretary for Louisiana Downs.

"We reached an agreement with the horsemen concerning an overpayment from previous years, and were able to release some funds for this meet," said McIntosh.

Whistle Pig continued his dominance at Presque Isle Downs when defeating five other Pennsylvania-breds in the $75,000 Leemat on Friday evening.

Trained by Andrew Carter, Whistle Pig has now won six of his eight starts at Presque Isle Downs. Ten horses were scheduled to go to the post in the Leeward, but four horses were scratched late.

"I was worried when those four scratched out, they were mostly speed horses and I was worried he wouldn't have enough to speed to run at," Carter said after the race.

COLUMBUS, Neb. - Senorita Conchita grabbed her second stakes win of the year and posted her first win over the Columbus oval as she drew off to score by 4 1/2 lengths in the $15,550 Maturity/Matron Stakes on Friday night.

Senorita Conchita, ridden by Luis Ranilla, shadowed the pace set by Real Battleaxe through the opening half-mile of the 6 1/2-furlong test, challenged in upper stretch, and drew off for the win in 1:21 over a fast track. Sent off as the 4-5 favorite in a field five, Senorita Conchita captured her fourth win of the year.

MIAMI - Track management has banned trainer Kirk Ziadie, jockey agent Richard Ciardullo, and veterinarian Dr. Raul Jimenez from being on the grounds or from racing at Calder, effective immediately.

"We are exercising our management rights and making a reasonable business decision to exclude Kirk Ziadie, Richard Ciardullo, and Dr. Raul Jimenez's participation at Calder," said John Marshall, the track's vice president and general manager of racing.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Excessive Blend won her second consecutive stakes of the Del Mar meeting in Friday's $112,525 Sandy Blue Handicap, her first stakes appearance on turf.

Stolis Winner, the reigning world champion Quarter Horse, finished third in his seasonal debut Friday at Ruidoso Downs but still qualified for a spot in next month's Grade 1, $624,784 All-American Derby.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Moments after Shared Account persevered over Saratoga's soft outer turf course to a one-length victory in Friday's trainer Graham Motion wondered if she might actually prefer firm ground.

"Maybe she doesn't really care for soft turf," Motion said "She obviously gets over it okay. It'll be interesting to see how she handles a firm turf course or even the Polytrack."