Stealth Cat ($8.40) held off Game N Laughin' for a head win in the $50,000 Adena Springs Matchmaker, giving trainer Steve Asmussen and jockey Luis Quinonez their second stakes win of the week-old meet at Remington Park.
Confucius Say ($7.20), a 10-year-old gelding, cruised to a wire-to-wire 3 1/2-length victory in the $50,000 Frank Gall Memorial Handicap at Charles Town. Elsewhere on the card, Maryland-based 2-year-old filly Onearmedbandit ($2.80) extended her career unbeaten streak to four races with a 5 1/2-length romp in the $100,000 Miss Shenandoah, and jockey J.D.
For the second straight year, trainer Kelly Von Hemel saddled three winners on Prairie Meadows Iowa Classic Night.
Von Hemel's winners included Crimson King Kat ($6.80) in the Iowa Classic Sprint, Jumpifyoudare ($3.20) in the Iowa Cradle, and Red Hot and Gold ($3) in the Ralph Hayes. In the Iowa Breeders Derby, Kate's Main Man ($12) upset 1-5 favorite Maya's Storm, who is trained by Von Hemel.
EDMONTON, Alberta - Matt's Broken Vow ($9.40) captured Saturday's Grade 3, $300,000 Canadian Derby under a ground-saving ride from Emile Ramsammy, who allowed his mount to settle in along the rail behind moderate early fractions in the 1 3/8-mile test.
"He relaxed for me and was very willing when I asked him," said Ramsammy, who rode Woodbine invader Matt's Broken Vow for trainer Josie Carroll. "When Texas Wildcatter came up inside of us at the eighth pole, I still had plenty of horse left."
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Just Rushing got a late start to his current campaign, as he did not see action until July 19.
But the 7-year-old gelding, who is trained by Sid Attard, has been making up for lost time and registered the biggest win of his career here in Saturday's Grade 2, $215,600 Play the King over seven furlongs of turf.
"Last year, he came up with some problems in his last race," said Attard, who had watched Just Rushing wind up his 2007 season with a third-place finish in the six-furlong Kennedy Road here Nov. 18. "We had to give him some time off."
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - For a man who had just suffered an excruciating beat 12 hours earlier, trainer Neil Howard was surprisingly calm and composed the morning after his Mambo in Seattle was beaten by the slimmest of margins by Colonel John in Saturday's Grade 1 Travers.
It was the second year in a row that Howard, owners William Farish and Lora Jean Kilroy, and jockey Robby Albarado were narrowly defeated in the Travers. A year earlier, they just missed upsetting Street Sense with Grasshopper.