INGLEWOOD, Calif. - To an extent, Lava Man revived his career with a game third in Saturday's Grade 1 Charles Whittingham Handicap at Hollywood Park.

The performance left the owners of the millionaire 7-year-old gelding and trainer Doug O'Neill dreaming of a record-breaking fourth consecutive win in the $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup on June 28.

"That has got to be the game plan," O'Neill said.

O'Neill said that Lava Man emerged from the race "a little tired, but not bad."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Ginger Brew reigns the undisputed queen of the local 3-year-old fillies after her emphatic win in Sunday's $502,800 Woodbine Oaks.

But a return in the June 22 Queen's Plate is not a consideration for Ginger Brew, who races for Stronach Stable and is trained by Brian Lynch.

Team Stronach already has two prospects for the Queen's Plate in Harlem Rocker and Jungle Brew.

Harlem Rocker is trained by Todd Pletcher but is under Lynch's day-to-day care after finishing fourth when making his first start on Polytrack here in the May 31 Plate Trial.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Curlin had what would be his final prep for the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap - if indeed owner Jess Jackson and trainer Steve Asmussen decide to run - when he breezed a half-mile in 49 seconds early Monday over a fast Churchill Downs racetrack.

 With regular exercise rider Carmen Rosas aboard, Curlin went to the track at about 6:20 a.m. Working without company, and after getting a full head of steam to the half-mile pole, he went through fractions of 12.60 seconds, 24.60, 37, and 49, galloping out five furlongs in 1:02.80.

By RON GIERKINK

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Ginger Brew ($3.20) overcame some bumping early in the stretch before pulling away for an easy victory in Sunday’s $502,800 Woodbine Oaks.

Ginger Brew bided her time in 10th on the first turn of the nine-furlong test for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies, and she made up ground on the backstetch under Javier Castellano.

Stampede Park canceled its last two races on Saturday and its entire card on Sunday after heavy rainfall created an uneven surface that could not be properly maintained. Saturday's Duchess of York and Sunday's Teeworth Plate were postponed by one week and will be redrawn and run next weekend, the last two days of the meeting.

Jockey Marco Ccamaque, a 35-year-old native of Lima, Peru, was arrested Friday night by the U.S. Border Patrol at Presque Isle Downs in Erie, Pa. According to Jim Perfetto of the Pennsylvania Racing Commission, Ccamaque was arrested because he had no working papers and was in the country illegally.

“He will be held in the Erie County holding facility and then taken to York for a hearing before an immigration judge,” Perfetto said.

Ccamaque has hired an attorney, George Cramaco, who was unavailable for comment.

Oelectra ($10), ridden by Rosie Napravnik, held off even-money favorite Circuit Breaker by a neck to win the closing-day feature at Pimlico, the $50,000 Whimsical, for filly and mare sprinters.

* Josue Arce, 22, who was brought to Maryland from South Florida by trainer Scott Lake at the beginning of Pimlico's meet in April, finished as the meet's leading rider.

True Metropolitan held off Sterwins in the stretch for a determined victory in the Grade 3, $153,400 Eclipse Stakes at Woodbine.

True Metropolitan ($4.80), Canada's champion older runner in each of the past two years, set slow fractions of 24.39 and 47.84 seconds under Jim McAleney, while being pressed by Good and Lucky in the 1o1/16-mile race.

First the Rossi Gold Stakes was delayed by a thunderstorm, and then when the Belmont Stakes went off. A half-hour later, 9-year-old Major Rhythm held off Rumor Has It to win the $50,000 overnight stakes by a half-length.

Major Rhythm, ridden by Trey Agilar, and Telling caught the pacesetter Rumor Has It after turning for home, but Telling didn't go on, and Rumor Has It re-broke along the rail. Major Rhythm, winning for the 13th time in 59 starts, had enough left to hold on.

Rosinka showed no signs of rust from an eight-month layoff when she returned to Delaware Park on Saturday to win the $75,000 John Rooney Memorial Stakes for the second straight year.

Allowed to set soft early fractions of 26.59 seconds, 51.29, and 1:15.02 while opening up by three lengths, the 5-year-old Rosinka ($3.20) held off 10-1 longshot Royalties by three-quarters of a length. It was another length back to Shytoe Lafeet.