The Nick Gonzalez-trained duo of Shilla and Executrix ran one-two Saturday in the $95,800 La Voyageuse Stakes, the opening-day feature of the 167-day Woodbine meeting.

Shilla stalked the pace on the outside under David Clark, as Kid Sparkle set the opening fraction of 22.02 seconds in the five-furlong dash. Shilla hit the front nearing the eighth pole and drew away for a 2 1/4-length score in 57.55 on Polytrack.

Kid Sparkle tired to third. The favored entry of Dawn Raid and Spin Move finished fifth and sixth in the seven-horse field of fillies and mares.

Making her second start since double knee surgery a little less than a year ago, Hungarian Boatbaby rallied from third on the turn to win the $63,400 Primonetta at Laurel going away.

Ridden by Abel Castellano, Hungarian Boatbaby sat fourth in the field of seven as What Time Is It set a fast pace of 21.99 seconds for a quarter-mile and 45.50 for the half in the six-furlong race for fillies and mares.

Hungarian Boatbaby ran down What Time Is It by midstretch, and hit the wire 2 1/4 lengths in front.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - Soldier's Dancer ($4.60) wore down a stubborn Silver Tree through the final furlong for a 1 1/4-length victory in the Turf Classic, one of six $85,000 stakes for Florida-breds at Tampa Bay Downs Saturday.

Ridden by Daniel Centeno, Soldier's Dancer lagged back in last through the opening five furlongs of the 1 1/8-mile grass race. Soldier's Dancer moved up quickly along the outside through the final turn while Silver Tree was moving to the front.

STICKNEY, Ill. – Greg Geier wintered at Tampa Bay Downs last year. Nothing against Tampa Bay, which has admirably served any number of horsemen, but Geier is a Fair Grounds guy from a time even farther back than his long spell as the main Fair Grounds assistant to the late trainer Gene Cilio. Back in New Orleans again this winter, Geier won six races with a 15-horse stable, and now is reaping the benefits of spending several months on the lauded Fair Grounds main track.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Kohana, who has won both his starts, will get a class check Saturday when he ships to Oaklawn Park to make his stakes debut in the $1 million Arkansas Derby.

Kohana, a son of Indian Charlie owned by West Point Stables, won his maiden by 1 1/2 lengths launching his career going seven furlongs on Feb. 1, then stretched out to a mile to capture an entry-level allowance by 1 3/4 lengths seven weeks later.

Kohana had his final tune-up for the Grade 2 Arkansas Derby when he breezed five furlongs in 1:02 at Palm Meadows on Saturday.

The Pennsylvania Governor’s Cup Handicap, the oldest and most prestigious stakes at Penn National Race Course, once again will be worth six figures as the track doubled the purse to $100,000.

The 36th running of the Governor’s Cup, scheduled for Friday night, Aug. 1, highlights a list of 13 stakes for 2008 released by Penn National on Friday.

The Governor’s Cup has been worth $50,000 since 2002, the same year the distance of the turf race was switched from 1 1/16 miles to five furlongs.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The race for the training title at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting may go down to the end of the meeting on April 20. None of the three leading contenders - Mike Mitchell, John Sadler, and Doug O'Neill - is ready to predict the result.

Through Friday, Mitchell led all trainers with 25 winners, two more than Sadler and O'Neill. Bobby Frankel was fourth with 21 wins.

Mitchell admits his two-win lead is tenuous, and that whether he wins the title depends on what races are used in the final weeks of the meeting.

CALGARY, Alberta – Trainer Terry Jordan begins his annual invasion of Alberta in earnest on Sunday when Ronaldino squares off against six rivals in a $19,300 conditioned allowance that runs as the third race.

Jordan’s forays into this province from his Hastings base have been an ongoing success story, and Ronaldino, a son of fashionable British Columbia sire Katahaula County with excellent early foot, seeks to write another chapter with Quincy Welch signed up to ride.

STICKNEY, Ill. - The closest David Carroll ever came to winning the Kentucky Derby was in 1989, when Easy Goer finished 2 1/2 lengths behind Sunday Silence. Carroll's name didn't appear on the program; the young Irishman toiled behind the scenes as Easy Goer's exercise rider.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Rebound or re-route.

That's the theme for many of the high-profile 3-year-olds hoping to use Saturday's Grade 1, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct as a stepping-stone to next month's Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.