Sarasponda needed every inch of the Beulah Park stretch to get up to beat the 2-5 favorite, Money Card, in the $50,000 Bobbie Bricker Memorial on Saturday. Jockey Christian Pilares had the 3-year-old Sarasponda well off the early quick pace in the compact field of six before making a move on the far turn and wearing down Money Card in the stretch to prevail by a hard fought neck in the 1 1/16-mile Bricker. Trained by Joe Shuman, Sarasponda returned $7.60 to win.

Nightly Ritual leveled a field of 11 Indiana-bred and -sired 2-year-olds in the $100,000 Indiana Stallion Stakes filly division at Hoosier Park on Saturday.

Jockey Rafael Hernandez had Nightly Ritual in midpack early before rallying on the turn and taking command to draw off through the stretch under light urging to win by 7 1/4 lengths. Trained by Joe Davis, Nightly Ritual has now won 3 of 4 lifetime starts and amassed earnings of more than $142,000.

Finger Lakes canceled its scheduled nine-race card for Saturday, for the second day in a row because of poor weather conditions in the region. Live racing was scheduled to resume on Monday with a 12:15 p.m. first post time.

NEW ORLEANS – Cody Autrey’s style of aggressive claiming has earned him a large number of fans and detractors, along with his many wins. Though his first weekend results at Fair Grounds were impressive, with 4 wins from 9 starts, Autrey seems intent on slightly altering his game plan by claiming fewer horses and buying better ones.

Finger Lakes canceled its nine-race card on Friday because of poor weather conditions in the area. Racing was scheduled to resume on Saturday.

Terrain and West Side Bernie, who last raced in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, were among 17 horses pre-entered on Friday in the Grade 3, $750,000 Delta Jackpot at Delta Downs. The 1 1/16-mile race for 2-year-olds will be limited to a field of 10 when it is run on Delta's six-furlong track Dec. 5. Final entries for the race will be held Dec. 2.

Jockey Luis Quinonez has won titles at Oaklawn Park and Canterbury, but never at his home track of Remington Park, where he has ridden on a regular basis since 1989. That should soon change. With just three weeks left in the meet, Quinonez has a double-digit advantage in the standings and the continued support of leading trainer Steve Asmussen.

"I can taste it now," said Quinonez, 41, who lives in Jones, Okla., with his wife, Gedda, and their four children. "It would be nice. This is home. If I can hang on to it, it would be very special."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Sam DiPasquale nominated Marina Ballerina to both Saturday's Kennedy Road and Sunday's Bessarabian here at Woodbine.

Both stakes offer a purse of $150,000, but Marina Ballerina would have been facing males in the Grade 3, six-furlong Kennedy Road while the seven-furlong Bessarabian was for fillies and mares only.

And while he was tempted by the Kennedy Road's shorter distance, DiPasquale has elected to keep Marina Ballerina with her own gender in the Bessarabian.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Go back to 2003, and trainer Tony Mitchell won eight stakes races. A filly named Summer Mis accounted for three of them, including a Grade 3 sprint at the fall Keeneland meet.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Churchill Downs racing officials are expecting a small field, with maybe only as many five horses challenging Commentator when the annual fall-meet highlight, the Grade 2 Clark Handicap, is run Friday for the 135th time.

Commentator, the speedy New York-bred gelding with 13 wins from 20 starts, will be the highweight and favorite in the $400,000 Clark, one of four Grade 2 races that will close out the 26-day fall meet during the Thanksgiving weekend. Weights for the 1 1/8-mile race were to be released Saturday, with entries taken and drawn Tuesday.