Gold Coyote ($3.20) powered to a nine-length win over Ferdinand's Flyer in the $50,000 Fort Bend County for 3-year-old Texas-breds at Sam Houston Race Park.

Bandido ($6.20) got two turns in his first attempt Saturday when he rolled to a 3 1/2-length win in the $50,000 Cocodrie for Louisiana-breds on the final card of the meet at Delta Downs. John Charles finished second in the race restricted to horses who had never won a stakes. Also on the program, Coach Mike ($5.40) led throughout for a 6 1/4-length win in the $50,000 Gardenia for fillies and mares bred in Louisiana.

Bevys Best ($5.40) extended his streak of stakes wins to four and marked himself the top sprinter at Fonner Park with a two-length win in the $26,800 Budweiser-Tondi Stakes on Saturday.

Frankenbean got back on track as he powered home to win the $100,000 Mt. Cristo Rey Handicap on Saturday at Sunland Park.

Owned by Sammy Means and David Ratliff and trained by Emmitt Burelsmith Jr., the 4-year-old gelding stalked the early pace in the 4 1/2-furlong event for New Mexico-breds, pounced into the lane, got the lead by midstretch, and gamely held on to win by a length. Boom Boom rallied from well back to be second, a neck ahead of Gulchrunssweet.

Frankenbean covered the distance in 50.79 seconds under Miguel Perez and paid $5 as the favorite.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Ginger Punch's odds just dropped. The champion will be an even stronger favorite Saturday in the Grade 1, $500,000 Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park with the Monday defection of one of her chief rivals, Hystericalady.

By STEVE ANDERSEN

ARCADIA, Calif. – Monday’s eight-race program at Santa Anita features a pick six carryover of $182,385. There were no winning favorites in Sunday’s pick six.

In addition, there is a carryover of $99,757 in the $1 Super High Five, a wager that requires bettors to correctly select the first five finishers of the final race.

ARCADIA, Calif. - To keep up with the leading contenders for Saturday's Santa Anita Derby, flashy works are a must.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - For Robby Albarado, the stretch run of the Dubai World Cup unfolded in "a blur." His words. Sure, there was no doubt he had won. And it's not like the final quarter-mile of the world's richest horse race provided release for frayed nerves. Albarado came into Saturday's night's racing all smiles, and he never turned a hair. It was just that with the roar of a huge crowd on a desert night, the feeling of sitting astride the best horse this year, last year, and perhaps in many a year - it was hard to separate specific occurrences.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Unspoken Word took over on the backstretch and gamely held on to the lead, repelling the late charge of Wild Promises to win the $61,070 Hillsborough Handicap by a head at Bay Meadows on Saturday.

"I didn't figure Anamanor to go early when she bolted to the lead," winning jockey Russell Baze said. "It worked out all right because my filly relaxed behind her on the turn. Down the backstretch she just dragged me to the lead, but once she got in front, she relaxed again.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Niagara Causeway's career has been revitalized on Santa Anita's synthetic main track. After winning just two of his first 18 starts, racing mostly on turf, Niagara Causeway has won two consecutive starts on a synthetic surface, including his first stakes win in the $108,200 Tokyo City Handicap on Saturday.

Niagara Causeway ($20.80) won the Grade 3 Tokyo City Handicap by a nose over Church Service, giving trainer Leonard Powell, 31, his first stakes win in California.