Golden Yank bagged his second straight derby win on Saturday when he powered home by 6 3/4 lengths in the $150,000 Zia Derby at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M. Por Que held second in the 1 1/16-mile race, finishing a neck in front of third-place finisher Numismatist.

ALBANY, Calif. - Lady Railrider ($7.60) raced wide but in the clear as she earned her first stakes victory in the $75,000 Pacific Heights Stakes at Golden Gate Fields on Saturday.

Coming off an allowance victory when she finished in a dead heat with stablemate Shes a Lucky Wager, Lady Railrider sat fourth while four wide around both turns.

"I just tried to be patient," said winning jockey Frank Alvarado after he scored his third straight stakes victory. "At the three-eighths, I knew the leaders were done, and I had a lot of horse."

Waco Hug was running for a claiming price of $7,500 less than two months ago, but on Saturday night his stock went way up as he became a stakes winner in the $75,000 Star of Texas. The 1 1/16-mile race was the richest of eight statebred stakes worth $425,000 on the Texas Champions Day program. The card is a mainstay at Sam Houston Race Park, but it was held at Retama Park this year because the Sam Houston meet was canceled due to damage from Hurricane Ike.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Champs Elysees had better luck this year. Ridden for the first time by Jose Valdivia, Champs Elysees ($5.60) parlayed a perfect trip to a half-length victory Saturday in the Grade 1 Hollywood Turf Cup, the mile and a half race he should have won a year ago in his U.S. debut.

Highland Games rallied to defend his title successfully in the $50,000 Hanks Mills Sr. Handicap at Turf Paradise on Saturday, while Tizfiz used her speed to capture the $50,000 Queen of the Green Handicap later on the card.

Highland Games, owned by the Sandra Hall Trust and trained by Lyman Rollins, sat midpack in the Hanks Mills - a one-mile main-track event - and finished doggedly to outduel the pacesetting Bingham in the final yards to win by a half-length under Miguel Hernandez.

Patena ($10.50) wore down a game Hooh Why in the final furlong to take the $152,000 Display Stakes at Woodbine.

Hooh Why, the lone filly in the 11-horse field, set honest fractions on an uncontested lead in the 1 1/16-mile route for 2-year-olds. Patena raced in the first flight on the backstretch and came three wide on the far turn before taking a slim lead at the eighth pole. Hooh Why dug in through the last eighth, but Patena prevailed by a head, in a time of 1:44.72.

Robert Landry rode Patena for trainer Josie Carroll.

The Pat Whitworth Illinois Debutante turned, essentially, into a $107,650 maiden race. Ava Mae had failed to win the first two starts of her career, but she won the Debutante, rallying wide and from well behind a contested early pace to score by two lengths over Winpins at Hawthorne.

Kiss With a Twist found a seam at the right time before drawing off to a 2 1/4-length victory under Miguel Mena in the $50,000 My Charmer Stakes at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky., on a bleak Saturday afternoon.

Sent away the favorite in a field of 12 fillies and mares, Kiss With a Twist returned $6.80 after completing 1 1/16 miles in 1:47.52 over Polytrack. Cryptoquip was up in the closing strides to get second in a three-way photo, with Lauren's Tizzy third and Absolutely Cindy fourth.

The win photograph in Saturday's Pago Hop Stakes at Fair Grounds spread almost from inner rail to outer fence. Six horses finished within a half-length of one another in the $60,000 turf stakes for 3-year-old fillies. Love to Tell was barely best.

That's the way things have gone this Fair Grounds season for leading rider Francisco Torres, who never has wintered before in New Orleans, who has been in and out of racing because of substance-abuse-related bans, and who continues knocking out victories.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The 4-year-old colt Slew's Tizzy will not live in the shadow of his younger brother. Nine days after 3-year-old Slew's Tiznow won a minor $70,000 stakes at Hollywood Park, his full brother Slew's Tizzy scored a $16.40 upset with a track-record win in the Grade 3 Native Diver Handicap.