Dancing Allstar ($8.90) got away with a soft opening quarter and never looked back en route to a comfortable score in the Grade 3, $150,000 Whimsical Stakes, a six-furlong sprint for fillies and mares at Woodbine.

Miss Blakely, who ran for a claiming tag in the first two starts of her career, became a stakes winner when she took advantage of an opening along the inside to capture the $50,000 Boynton Beach for 3-year-old fillies at Gulfstream Park.

Ridden by Jeffrey Sanchez for trainer Joe Orseno, Miss Blakely ($25) was second behind pacesetter Oilgonewile coming into the stretch of the one-mile turf race. Miss Blakely, a daughter of Smart Strike, surged up the hedge to pull clear by 2 1/2 lengths while completing the distance in 1:34.94.

Coming back to race in seven days worked better for Princess Nyla than it did for odds-on favorite All Smiles.

The 4-year-old Princess Nyla ($8.60), making just her second start since February after finishing third as the 2-1 favorite in an allowance at Charles Town a week earlier, made a four-wide move into the stretch under Julien Pimental to score a 4 3/4-length victory in Saturday's $50,000 Geisha Stakes, the opening-day co-feature at Pimlico.

STICKNEY, Ill. - While odds-on favorite Santa Teresita recoiled from the spray of dirt thrown in her face, Swift Temper scampered off to an easy lead and never was caught, winning the Grade 3, $200,000 Sixty Sails by a desperate head on Saturday at Hawthorne Race Course.

Indiana Downs in Shelbyville, Ind., opens its 2009 Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse meet Monday with bigger purses, two new six-figure stakes, and more Quarter Horse and turf racing than last year.

The 62-day meet runs through July 15. Last year, the meet was 54 days.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - The fortunes of a racing stable often run in streaks, and nobody can attest to that fact more than trainer Brenda McCarthy.

The first half of the race meet here at Tampa was a period that the McCarthy outfit would just as soon forget, as the stable won a single race from its 58 starters. McCarthy says inexperienced help and horses that had been running hard for months were reasons for the dry spell.

Georgie Boy, the top sprinter in California and the best horse scheduled to run April 25 at Hollywood Park on $1.3 million Gold Rush card, has been temporarily sidelined with a quarter crack that knocks him out of the $150,000 Tiznow Stakes opening weekend of the spring-summer meet.

Trainer Kathy Walsh said Georgie Boy popped the quarter Friday on the inside of his right front. "It's just a small one and not a big deal," she said. "I could put a patch on it, but I'm going to grow it out and get it down. It's a long year, and I want to give him plenty of time."

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Justwhistledixie, who has emerged as the likely second choice to Rachel Alexandra in the Kentucky Oaks, worked five furlongs in 1:00 with her Kiaran McLaughlin-trained stablemate Fitz Just Right on Friday morning at Keeneland.

Both 3-year-old fillies are owned by the West Point Thoroughbreds partnership.

Justwhistledixie is the more accomplished of the two. She most recently won the Bonnie Miss Stakes at Gulfstream Park for her fifth consecutive victory.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Boosted by a promotion of free general admission on Fridays, Santa Anita will end its winter-spring meeting on Sunday with a slight increase in ontrack attendance but a drop in ontrack handle, track president Ron Charles said.

Charles described the attendance figures as "very encouraging" despite a tough economic climate. He did not provide exact figures. "We have a chance to be up in attendance and have a chance to be close in ontrack handle," he said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - With handle down 9 percent through the first quarter of 2009, the New York Racing Association announced Friday it will cut purses for the upcoming Belmont spring meet, returning them to the levels they were at in 2007.