VINTON, La. - There is a chance that Big Drama and West Side Bernie, who finished one-two in Friday night's Grade 3, $750,000 Delta Jackpot at Delta Downs, could meet again this winter in Florida. While neither camp has laid out next-race plans, both horses traveled to the Miami area Saturday, with Big Drama settled in at Calder and West Side Bernie based just a little farther north at Palm Meadows Training Center.

Star of Navarone indicated his intent to be a major player in the New Mexico handicap ranks this coming year by winning the $200,000 Distance Championship in track-record time at Zia Park on Sunday. The mile and an eighth race was the final stakes of the meet, which was to close Tuesday.

Star of Navarone ($8.60) covered the distance in 1:50.40 to lower the track mark of 1:51 that Tap Dancing Mauk set when he won the Distance Championship in 2007. Star of Navarone raced in seventh early, then closed well for a three-length win over One Lucky Buck.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Following prolonged negotiations, Horse Racing Alberta, Northlands Park, the Alberta Standardbred Horse Association, and the local Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association have agreed upon 2009 racing that will result in a new Thoroughbred landscape in the province.

Beacon Rock ($12.60), a maiden making his third career start, won the $41,600 Os West Oregon Futurity on Sunday at Portland Meadows.

Beacon Rock, owned, trained, and bred by Nick Lowe, sat just behind Ex Tremely Cool through the first six furlongs of the one-mile race. He uncorked a strong kick in the lane to defeat Ex Tremely Cool by 3 3/4 lengths in 1:42.98. Odds-on favorite Chief Jafatica was a troubled fourth.

Beacon Rock, unplaced in his first two starts, earned $22,880 to lift his career earnings to $24,474.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Two days after their leading New York-bred juvenile, Trinity Magic, finished last in the Delta Jackpot, Haynesfield picked up the slack for the Steve Asmussen stable with an authoritative 5 1/4-length victory in Sunday's $83,375 Damon Runyon Stakes for statebred juveniles at Aqueduct.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Longshot front-runner Briecat exploited the fast, speed-favoring surface Sunday at Hollywood Park, where she scored a $28.80 upset in the Grade 2 Bayakoa Handicap for fillies and mares.

The only 3-year-old in the field of seven, Briecat set a swift pace under Jon Court (46.01 seconds and 1:09.79) and won by 2 1/4 lengths over even-money favorite Model. Wake Up Maggie finished three lengths back in third.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The final card of the Woodbine meeting was canceled after the second race Sunday when the jockeys refused to ride because of the cold weather. The temperature was around 14 degrees Fahrenheit when card started, and there were gusting winds from the west.

Patrick Husbands swept the double, and was the meeting’s leading rider, with 166 wins, four more than Jim McAleney, who led the standings during most of the year.

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.