VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Against the Sky overcame adversity to win the Grade 3, $135,800 Ballerina at Hastings on Saturday.

Queen of Tee prevailed in a stretch long duel to win her first career race in the $100,000 City of Anderson at Hoosier Park on Saturday.

Trained by Genaro Garcia, Queen of Tee stayed just behind the pacesetting Z What U Got, part of a 1-2 entry, through brisk opening fractions. She rallied to the lead into the stretch and then held off Nightly Ritual to prevail by a neck under Inosencio Diego.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Jockey E.T. Baird may be a Chicagoan by history, but he is by no means a Hawthorne regular these days. Still, even with just 4 winners from 15 Hawthorne mounts in 2008, Baird has managed to wind up in the thick of things here. In April, he won the Illinois Derby on the longshot Recapturetheglory, and on Saturday, he rode Strait of Mewsina to a 19-1 surprise in the Grade 3, $250,000 Hawthorne Derby.

ELMONT, N.Y. - When looking for races in which to run Sunshine for Life, trainer Richard Schosberg believes the longer the better. But when a 10-furlong overnight stakes race failed to fill earlier this month, Schosberg was left with little choice but to run his filly in the Grade 3 Athenia Stakes at 1 1/16 miles.

Epitome of a Lady, the only member of the field with two career victories, sat just off Got Tobe Rio early and pulled clear in the stretch to win the $51,900 Harvest Futurity at the Big Fresno Fair.

Epitome of a Lady, ridden by Catalino Martinez, stuck her head in front in the lane and pulled away to win the six-furlong race for 2-year-old Cal-bred fillies by 3 3/4 lengths. She was timed in 1:10.16 and paid $8.

Costa Marta, the 3-5 favorite, stumbled slightly leaving the gate and was never a factor, finishing third, two lengths behind Got Tobe Rio.

Kiss the Kid ($14.20) snapped an eight-race losing streak and gave trainer Amy Tarrant her first graded stakes victory when he prevailed in a three-horse photo in the Grade 3, $150,000 Cliff Hanger at the Meadowlands on Friday night.

Ridden for only the second time by Rajiv Maragh, the 5-year-old Kiss the Kid rallied from third to take a half-length lead at the eighth pole, then held off Wheels Up At Noon by a neck, with Nergal another neck back in third.

Icy Atlantic finished fifth as the 9-5 favorite.

The third time proved to be the charm for Aspiring Nick in his ongoing rivalry with Bunker Hill.

Narrowly beaten in two previous stakes tries against Bunker Hill, this time Aspiring Nick got up by a nose to win the $75,000 Dover Stakes for 2-year-olds at Delaware Park.

Bunker Hill, sent off the 2-1 second choice in a field of seven despite being unbeaten in three starts, forged to a narrow lead inside the eighth pole under jockey Jose Lezcano. But after Bunker Hill and Aspiring Nick brushed each other, Aspiring Nick and jockey Mario Pino narrowly got to the wire first.

Palladio lowered Woodbine's nine-furlong track record while capturing the Grade 3, $154,200 Durham Cup Stakes on Saturday.

Palladio ($13.60) took control from favored Monsoon Rain at the quarter pole, and then drew clear for a 1 3/4-length tally over Marchfield. Artie Hot finished third.

Richard Dos Ramos got a leg up from trainer Roger Attfield on Palladio, who covered the distance in 1:49.29.

Palladio broke the 1 1/8-mile Polytrack record of 1:49.55 set by Leonnatus Anteas in last year's Durham Cup.

MIAMI - At first glance, Smooth Air's final time of 1:42.20 for his one-mile work on Saturday may not appear the type of drill one would expect from a horse just two weeks away from a start in the Breeders' Cup Classic. But coming over a Calder surface that has been slow and cuppy enough to produce final-furlong fractions of 14 seconds and change and even 15 seconds in sprint races here this past week, that 1:42 may be better than one might think.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - The shake-up of racing secretaries in Louisiana continued Saturday as Trent McIntosh was named to the position at Louisiana Downs. McIntosh replaces Doug Bredar who will assume the same duties at Gulfstream Park following the conclusion of the Louisiana Downs meeting next Saturday.

McIntosh has been the racing secretary at Delta Downs since 1998. Earlier this year, Jason Boulet, formerly the racing secretary at Evangeline Downs, accepted the same post at Fair Grounds, which begins its season Nov. 14.