ELMONT, N.Y. - Stop us if you've heard this one before. A horse wins a maiden race on turf. A first-level allowance race is rained off the grass, but trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. runs the horse on dirt anyway, and a star is born.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - There's a new look to the summer fair racing season this year, with a revised schedule and a return of Thoroughbred racing to the California State Fair in Sacramento.

The San Joaquin County Fair in Stockton had been the starting point for the fair season in recent years, but this year its dates have been moved to September, and the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton will start the fair season.

Thoroughbred racing returns to the California State Fair for the first time since 2004 after a three-year experiment with harness racing.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Gotta Have Her seemed poised for a promising winter campaign after she won the Harold Ramser Handicap at Santa Anita last October. She wound up sidelined for nearly six months after being diagnosed with pneumonia a month later.

After Gotta Have Her won a comeback race in an allowance race at a mile on turf June 4, trainer Jenine Sahadi reverted to her 2007 impressions of the 4-year-old filly.

"I really believe she's a nice horse," she said.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Bruce Levine finished second in the Monmouth Park training standings the last three summers.

While there are still a lot of races to be run at this meet, Levine is well positioned to earn his first Monmouth title.

Levine was red hot from the start, and the barn shows no signs of cooling off. His latest victory came Sunday with Coli Bear in the $70,000 Blue Sparkler Stakes, a win that gave Levine a 27-13 lead over Eddie Broome in the standings heading into the new week.

Patrick Valenzuela crept closer to the 4,000-win threshold when he booted home five winners on Sunday's card at SunRay Park in Farmington, N.M. He also had two seconds and a fourth from his eight mounts.

"Not a bad day at all," Valenzuela said Sunday evening as he was leaving for Durango, Colo., to visit one of his daughters. "Five wins, two seconds, and a fourth, wow!"

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Not Bourbon ($11.30) held off the 9-5 favorite, Ginger Brew, in the final strides to capture the 149th running of the $1 million Queen’s Plate under Jono Jones at Woodbine on Sunday.

It was a long anticipated record-typing victory for Canadian Hall of Fame trainer Roger Attfield, who equaled Harry Giddings Jr. for the most Plate victories by a trainer with eight. Attfield, who last won the Plate in 1995 with Regal Discovery, did a masterful job in getting the speed-oriented Not Bourbon to stay the 1 1/4-mile distance.

Heavy rains pelted Colonial Downs Saturday, but all trainer Jimmy Toner and his staff needed for protection was a Sailor's Cap.

Sailor's Cap relished the yielding turf - as he did at Keeneland two starts back - and powered home a dominant 6 3/4-length winner of the Grade 3, $600,000 Colonial Turf Cup at Colonial. Nistle's Crunch finished second by a length over Your Round. It was a head back to Court Vision in fourth.

ALBANY, Calif. - Bellsblade ($7) won her stakes debut and increased her winning streak to three as she captured the $75,000 Work the Crowd Stakes at Golden Gate Fields on Saturday.

The 4-year-old Robert Reseigne homebred filly graduated in a $12,500 maiden claimer but has turned things around on turf, winning a starter allowance on April 14 at Bay Meadows, an optional claimer at Golden Gate Fields on May 18, and Saturday’s one-mile turf stakes for California-bred fillies and mares.

As expected, Dancing Allstar easily won the $55,694 CTHS Sales Stakes at Hastings on Saturday.

Under a confident ride by leading rider Mario Gutierrez, Dancing Allstar set fractions of 22.61 and 45.59 seconds before posting a final time of 1.17.30 for 6 1/2 furlongs. Remarkable Miss, who finished second in the five-horse field, made a threatening move at the quarter pole, but Dancing Allstar easily repelled the bid and then was ridden out by Gutierrez to win by 1 1/2 lengths.

In consecutive starts, Tiz West has evolved from a playful colt whose antics led to a loss to a determined colt with a half-mile run that led to his first graded stakes win.

In Saturday's $147,200 Cinema Handicap at Hollywood Park, Tiz West challenged pacesetter Polonius on the backstretch, and held off threats from Liberian Freighter and Ez Dreamer to win by a nose. Ridden by Victor Espinoza, Tiz West ($8) ran 1 1/8 miles on turf in 1:47.24.