Junior College won the $50,000 Hot Springs Stakes for the second straight year on Saturday when he swept past his dueling rivals in the stretch to win in front of an Oaklawn Park crowd of 16,818. Indian Chant finished 2 3/4 lengths back in second, while it was another three lengths back in third to Lovango.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Perhaps no horse typifies the meet trainer Gary Contessa and owner Winning Move Stable have had this winter more than Rite Moment.

Like her connections, Rite Moment can succeed long or short, on wet ground or fast, and just keeps coming at you with no signs of regression.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla.- Saturday's live racing program at Gulfstream Park was canceled after the sixth race because of unsafe track conditions brought about by steady rains that struck the area just before the running of the first race. Among the four races canceled was the Grade 2, $200,000 Shirley Jones Handicap.

The cancellation was the second of a racing card already in progress during the meet. Racing was canceled after the first race on Feb. 15 due to heavy rains.

\ARCADIA, Calif. - Polonius, who won his stakes debut in the one-mile Pasadena Stakes on turf on March 15, is likely to make his graded stakes and main-track debut in the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby on April 5, trainer Michael Pender said.

Pender, who gained his first stakes win in the Pasadena, said he was considering the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park, and the Santa Anita Derby, and added, "I'd like to stay here at home."

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Linda Rice has been conspicuous by her absence at Gulfstream Park this winter, having started just seven horses at the meet. But the well-respected New York-based trainer figures to make her presence felt when she sends out Dicey D J among the key contenders in Monday’s $41,500 allowance feature for 3-year-old fillies on the turf.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Rollerskates proved unbeatable when she was allowed to set an easy lead in an optional claimer on turf earlier this month at Santa Anita. If she can win again in Monday’s fourth race at Santa Anita, an optional claimer, she will fulfill trainer Matt Chew’s expectations for her.

Along with her owners, Seymour Teichner and his family, Chew believes that Rollerskates will thrive over longer distances. Monday’s distance of 1 1/4 miles on turf equals the longest race in Rollerskates’s career.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - The folks on hand to watch last Tuesday's fourth race witnessed more than a few things that can go wrong in the course of a race.

For starters, Cathy's Clown became extremely agitated and fractious in the starting gate and delayed the start. Then, just a split second before the gates opened the filly tried to rear up, and she threw her head over the side of the starting gate bars, effectively eliminating herself. A split second later, when she did leave the gate, she managed to knock down one of the assistant starters.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The first stage of jockey Garrett Gomez's yearlong nationwide tour comes to end on April 3 when he moves from his winter base at Santa Anita to Keeneland for a month.

When he leaves California, Gomez is likely to be the leading rider at Santa Anita, a position he may hold only temporarily. Through Thursday, Gomez was second, trailing Rafael Bejarano 60-56, but he is likely to catch Bejarano since that rider is sidelined with a back injury until early April. The Santa Anita meeting ends on April 20.

The Hastings Conservancy, a citizens' group in British Columbia, has lost a court appeal it hoped would force the removal of slot machines at Hastings. The British Columbia Court of Appeal dismissed the group's appeal of the provincial Supreme Court decision that allowed slots at Hastings.

The Conservancy lost its original suit, in which it claimed the city of Vancouver did not have the jurisdiction to pass zoning bylaws that allowed slots at Hastings. Thursday, a three-member panel upheld the Supreme Court ruling.

Gary Contessa broke his own record for wins by a trainer at an Aqueduct inner-track meet when he saddled three of the first four winners on Friday, giving him 73 for the winter session. In 2006-07, Contessa established the previous mark with 72 wins.

Contessa went on to win another race on Friday's card, marking the second time in three weeks that a trainer has won four races on an Aqueduct card. Bruce Levine won four on Feb. 29.

Contessa credited his owners, specifically Steve Sigler's Winning Move Stable.