Jockey Matt Garcia was arrested in the paddock before the first race at Del Mar on Friday by San Diego County sheriff's deputies. The incident played out before a baffled crowd of onlookers who were watching the horses being prepared for the first race.

Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky., has announced a 10-percent purse increase for the final six-day stretch of its summer meet, with officials attributing the hike primarily to the business success of the Aug. 16 Gardenia Day program. The increase is the second of the meet, following a 5-percent raise starting Aug. 13.

In addition, purses for all maiden-special and allowance races will receive an additional $3,000 from the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund. The Aug. 13 increase excluded KTDF money.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - There will be a carryover of $147,974 in the pick six pool awaiting fans at Saratoga on Sunday after nobody picked six or even five winners on Saturday's Travers program. Post time on Sunday returns to 1 p.m.

The carryover was fueled by the upset victories of the 88-1 Slambino in the seventh race and Porte Bonheur's surprising win over the 2-5 Indyanne in the Victory Ride Stakes. The favorites were beaten in each of the last six races on the card.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Colonel John not only proved he could handle dirt, but he showed he could win a dogfight too.

In a stirring stretch duel reminiscent of Friday's Grade 1 Personal Ensign here won by Ginger Punch, Colonel John was able to get his nose down on the wire ahead of Mambo in Seattle to win Saturday's Grade 1, $1 million Travers Stakes before a crowd of 40,723 at Saratoga. It was the eighth time in the 139-year history of the Travers that the margin of victory was a nose. The last time it happened was in 1998 when Coronado's Quest nosed out Victory Gallop.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Combine a perfect pace scenario with sizzling-hot jockey Alan Garcia and you wind up with Visionaire's last-to-first 2 1/4-length victory over Desert Key in Saturday's $250,000 King's Bishop Stakes at Saratoga. The win was the fifth on the card for Garcia, who 30 minutes earlier had captured the Grade 2 Bernard Baruch Stakes aboard Shakis.

My Sweet Valor stalked and pounced for a one-length win over Timely Reflection in the $50,000 Ponca City Stakes for 3-year-old fillies Friday night at Remington Park. It was another 3 1/2 lengths back to Formal Flyer.

My Sweet Valor ($4.80) stalked a pressured pace set by Formal Flyer, overtook that one, and went on to cover six furlongs on a fast track in 1:09.59. Luis Quinonez rode the winner for Zayat Stables and trainer Steve Asmussen.

My Sweet Valor, a daughter of Vindication, earned $30,000 for the win. She has now won 3 of 10 starts and $110,115.

Porte Bonheur took advantage of the opportunity handed to her when the 2-5 Indyanne broke flatfooted at the start of the $150,000 Victory Ride Stakes, wearing down the previously undefeated favorite to post a half-length decision in the Grade 3 sprint for 3-year-old fillies.

Porte Bonheur ($24.60), well placed from the outset under jockey Ramon Dominguez, split rivals when launching her bid into the stretch and wore down a game but tiring Indyanne in the final yards of the six-furlong Victory Ride. She covered the distance in 1:09.51.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Different turf course, same result for Shakis in the Grade 2, $200,000 Bernard Baruch Stakes.

One year after winning the Bernard Baruch by three-quarters of a length while setting a Mellon Turf Course record, Shakis rallied from well back on Saratoga's inner turf course to get up four strides from the wire and beat War Monger by three-quarters of a length. It was another three-quarters of a length to Operation Head Dawn, who got third by a head over Thorn Song.

Renda pulled away to a seven-length victory over Countess Seagrape in the $60,000 Junior Champion Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Monmouth Park on Saturday.

Both the Junior Champion and the $70,000 Omnibus Stakes for fillies and mares were scheduled for the turf. They were moved to the main track when a Thursday night sprinkler malfunction soaked a portion of the course at the top of the stretch, wiping out grass racing on Friday and Saturday.

As a result, Renda's turf debut will have to wait.

On a day when a pair of two-time defending champions and a graded stakes winner all failed, Delaware River delivered.

The 7-year-old gelding Delaware River ($6) gave jockey Frankie Pennington his third stakes win on the card when he cruised by 8 3/4 lengths to capture the $125,000 Smarty Jones Classic for the second straight year Saturday at Philadelphia Park.

The 1 1/16-mile Smarty Jones was the richest of eight stakes for statebreds on what was billed as Pennsylvania's Day at the Races.