LOUISVILLE, Ky. - No, Chip Brownfield didn't have to walk all the way back to northern Kentucky after what happened Friday at Churchill Downs. But you couldn't blame his longtime girlfriend, Jamie Grubbs, for being a little upset with him.

Brownfield and Grubbs, both trainers with medium-sized stables at Turfway Park, ran horses Friday in the fifth race, a $5,000 claiming race for fillies and mares at a mile. From the start, Out Cold, with Brandon Meier riding for Grubbs, held a huge lead, and past the quarter pole her official margin on the lead was eight lengths.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Last Sunday's two stakes at Woodbine shaped up as significant harbingers for the year-end Sovereign Awards.

Ginger Brew's 4 1/4-length win in the $150,000 Jammed Lovely strengthened her position in the 3-year-filly division, while Marchfield's half-length score in the $165,250 Autumn scrambled an already wide-open race for champion male on the main track.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - After a ninth-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita on Oct. 24, Evita Argentina has an easier task at Hollywood Park on Sunday.

The $100,000 Moccasin Stakes for 2-year-old fillies over seven furlongs does not have championship implications like the BC Juvenile Fillies, and the distance could be more suitable for Evita Argentina.

"Maybe she's not a two-turn filly," trainer John Sadler said. "We're taking a step back."

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Former jockey Herb Ollive died last Friday following a massive heart attack. He was 51.

Ollive was one of the top riders in Alberta before he retired to become a jockey agent at Hastings. Ollive had a very successful career as an agent, most notably as the agent for leading riders Chris Loseth and Dave Wilson. He also served as a steward at Hastings in 2007.

Ollive will always be associated with Pole Position, who won the 1979 British Columbia Derby with Ollive aboard carrying 130 pounds.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Close your eyes and listen to Travis Stone call a horse race, and at certain points you'd swear it was the iconic announcer Dave Johnson.

"You could say a lot worse about me," said Stone.

Stone is light years ahead of what anyone his age could rightfully expect to be. Merely being one of the five men invited this fall by Churchill Downs to try out for the vacated race-caller position would seem reward enough for a . . . 24-year-old?!?

"I get that reaction a lot," he said.

PHOENIX - Riders Carl Williams and Alberto Higuera were released from a local hospital Sunday evening after being involved in a spill at Turf Paradise Sunday.

Williams, 44, suffered a bruised left leg while Higuera, 51, sustained a broken collarbone, according to track officials. The spill occured in the ninth and final race on the Sunday card when Williams's mount, LS Sunrise, suffered a fatal aneurism and collapsed turning for home. Arizona Twist, ridden by Higuera, was unable to avoid the fallen horse and went down. Arizona Twist was unhurt.

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif.-One Famous Eagle stretched his winning streak to seven and won his richest race of the year in Sunday’s $933,750 Los Alamitos Super Derby for 3-year-old Quarter Horses.

The victory makes him a leading contender for the $750,000 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos on Dec. 13, a race that annually brings together the leading older Quarter Horses in the nation.

Geordie proved best of six Indiana-bred colts and geldings winning the $100,000 Indiana Futurity at Hoosier Park on Sunday.

Jockey Rafael Hernandez had Geordie just off the quick opening pace early in the six-furlong event, before rallying into the stretch and drawing off to win by an impressive 4 1/4 lengths. Trained by Joe Davis, Geordie has now won 2 of 3 lifetime starts and has amassed earnings of $82,700. Early pacesetter Hoosier Kingdom was second and Unbridled Asset was 1 1/2 lengths back in third.

Peppers Pride extended her modern North American record for consecutive wins on

Sunday, when she won her 18th straight race in the $177,615 Filly and Mare Champonship at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M. She comfortably held off La Sopresa for a one-length win in the race, which has long been a goal for her because it is the richest offering of the year for her New Mexico-bred division. The win thrilled her connections.

"It feels as good as the rest of them, maybe better," said Joel Marr, who trains the undefeated Peppers Pride for Joe Allen.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The jockey-trainer combinations of Jose Lezcano and Richard Dutrow Jr., as well as Cornelio Velasquez and Ramon Hernandez, each recorded two stakes victories Sunday as Aqueduct conducted six New York Stallion Stakes.

Lezcano - who won three Stallion Stakes in all - and Dutrow began the sextet of stakes with Sarah Accomplished, who ran down favored Mother Russia to win the $100,000 Fifth Avenue Stakes by three-quarters of a length. It was three lengths back to She’s Prime in third.