The switch from turf to dirt played right into the hands of Zoobstick, who made the most of his opportunity by registering a 2 1/4-length decision over 6-5 favorite Otis Ridge in the $36,000 Mecke Handicap at Calder on Friday.
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Rises the Phoenix ($18.60) won a head bob at the wire with Brocco Valley to win the first stakes of his career in the $50,000 Wadsworth Memorial Handicap at Finger Lakes.
A 7-year-old gelding trained by Daniel Conway and ridden by Nazario Alvarado, Rises the Phoenix prevailed by a nose following a stretch-long duel with pacesetter Brocco Valley. The final time for 1 1/8 miles over a track labeled good was 1:50.86.
Tommasi finished third, 1 1/4 lengths behind the front pair, in a field of seven older horses.
Cash's Girl ($10.60) improved her record at Delaware Park to 3 for 3 when she outfought pacesetter Your Flame in Me by a head in the $100,300 Sweet and Sassy Stakes for fillies and mares.
A 4-year-old daughter of Northern Afleet ridden by Pablo Morales for trainer Tim Ritchey, Cash's Girl was cutting back to six furlongs after finishing fifth in the Grade 2 Allaire duPont Distaff at Pimlico on the Preakness Stakes undercard. She completed the distance in 1:10.58 for her sixth win in 14 lifetime starts.
Jockey Garrett Gomez likens J Be K to a high school star growing and maturing into a college athlete.
J Be K took another step in that process with a dominant victory Friday in the Grade 3, $150,000 Jersey Shore Stakes for 3-year-olds at Monmouth Park.
"In his last three races, he's really started to blossom," Gomez said. "He's grown a lot and he's gotten bigger. He's always been a big, strong horse. He's grown about a hand in the last two and half months."
FORT ERIE, Ontario - A field of seven or eight Canadian-bred 3-year-olds, headed by Queen's Plate winner Not Bourbon, are expected when post positions are drawn Wednesday for next Sunday's $500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie.
Patrick Kane of the Chicago Black Hawks, the National Hockey League's rookie of the year, will be on hand for the draw.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - While potential champion Not Bourbon has been trainer Roger Attfield's horse in the spotlight thus far this season, former champion Palladio has been quietly preparing for a comeback.
Palladio, who won the Sovereign Award as Canada's outstanding 3-year-old in 2005 and was the runner-up in the older male balloting last year, breezed five furlongs in 1:00.80 here at Woodbine on Friday morning
"He's getting close," said Attfield. "He's about three works away from running."
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Nownownow, winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Monmouth Park last fall, has joined trainer Jason Orman's stable and is being pointed for the $350,000 Swaps Stakes next Saturday.
Nownownow has made one start this year, finishing fifth in the Irish 2000 Guineas at Leopardstown, Ireland, on May 24 when trained by David Wachman. A winner of 2 of 7 starts and $660,784, Nownownow has had one workout for Orman, five furlongs in 58.20 seconds at Santa Anita on June 29, the fastest of 40 recorded works at the distance.
Force Freeze, one of the quickest 3-year-olds based this meet at Lone Star Park, has been sold for $400,000 in a deal that closed late last month, according to Allen Milligan, who trained the horse for Poindexter Thoroughbreds and Ronald Ellerbee.
Interests in Dubai purchased Force Freeze, said Steven W. Young, the bloodstock agent who brokered the sale. The horse is in quarantine in Kentucky, he said, and from there will ship to Dubai.
"They wanted to have a nice horse for the carnival over there," Young said Friday, referring to the Dubai Racing Carnival.