Reporting for Duty closed from next to last for a 4 3/4-length win over entrymate Red Rock Creek in the $100,000 Maxxam Gold Cup at Sam Houston Race Park. It was another two lengths back in third to Goosey Moose.

Reporting for Duty ($6.40) settled in fifth in the 1 1/8-mile race for older horses, as Honest Man, the 4-5 favorite, and Goosey Moose dueled through the six furlongs. Reporting for Duty overtook the leaders in the stretch and barreled home, covering the distance over a track rated good in 1:52.33.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Buffalo Man is good on dirt. It looks like he may be even better on grass after he capitalized on a perfect trip to score a half-length victory over Elusive Fort in Sunday's $125,000 Appleton Handicap at Gulfstream Park.

Buffalo Man won a pair of stakes over the main track, including the Spectacular Bid locally at 3. Trainer Cam Gambolati moved him to grass for the first time in Calder's Pete Axthelm Stakes and was rewarded with a fast-closing second place finish in the colt's final start of 2007.

ALBANY, Calif. - Yankee Bravo improved his career record to 3 for 3 when he rallied through heavy traffic on the second turn and made a strong move once he shifted out for room to defeat 11 rivals in the $150,000 California Derby at Golden Gate Fields on Sunday.

The 3-year-old Yankee Bravo, purchased after owner Richard Duggan saw a tape of his maiden victory in a five-furlong race on the turf in Britain, won his U.S. debut at Santa Anita on Dec. 29 in the one-mile Eddie Logan Stakes on the turf.

Snake Proof stamped herself a filly to watch as she rallied smartly to capture the $50,000 El Paso Times Handicap on Sunday at Sunland Park.

A 3-year-old Petionville filly owned by Everest Stables Inc., Snake Proof ($10.20) was one of three runners sent out by trainer Henry Dominguez in the field of six going 6 1/2 furlongs. Dominguez's trio swept the top three spots in the race.

Rivoltella, a proven stakes winner in the mud, relished the sloppy going at Turf Paradise as she easily won Sunday's $50,000 Kachina Handicap.

Owned by George Todaro and trained by Blaine Wright, Rivoltella ($11.20) had won the Washington Oaks at Emerald Downs last August on a sloppy track.

In the Kachina, she broke slowly in the one-mile race for fillies and mares, but was still able to gain a position in midpack by the first turn. She bided her time to the top of the lane, swung out, and powered past the field to win easily by 4 3/4 lengths under Glenn Corbett.

ARCADIA, Calif. - After nearly 24 hours of maintenance on a soaked synthetic main track, Santa Anita salvaged its 11-race program for Saturday, but the weather forecast for coming days was bleak and could disrupt an overhaul of the surface scheduled for Monday.

Beginning Friday afternoon, track maintenance crews removed approximately two inches from the top of the Cushion Track synthetic surface and worked through the night to replace it with an inch of dry material stored in a parking lot near the backstretch, according to track president Ron Charles.

NEW ORLEANS - Jockey John Jacinto was thrown from his mount in Saturday's 10th race at Fair Grounds, sustaining an apparent shoulder injury when his mount broke down in midstretch.

Jacinto was aboard the first-time starter All Boy when he was thrown from his mount and under the rail just inside the sixteenth pole. He was taken from the track by stretcher and transported to Tulane Medical Center. He was expected to have X-rays of his shoulder.

ARCADIA, Calif. - It took a rare dry day in Southern California on Saturday for trainer Bill Mott to start Go Between in the $1 million Sunshine Millions Classic at Santa Anita.

It took a gutty ride from jockey Garrett Gomez to get Go Between to the winner's circle in the lucrative race for California-breds and Florida-breds.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Bill Mott is right. War Monger is a monster.

Racing in tight quarters for at least six furlongs, War Monger was able to get clear turning for home under Kent Desormeaux and unleashed a powerful stretch kick to win Saturday's $500,000 Sunshine Millions Turf at Gulfstream Park by a length over Soldier's Dancer, who also had a troubled trip. It was a length back to pacesetting Lucky J.H. in third.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Eclipse Award winner Ginger Punch won one for the home team when cruising to an easy 6 3/4-length victory over pacesetter Peach Flambe in Saturday's $500,000 Sunshine Millions Distaff at Gulfstream Park.

Ginger Punch, idle since her victory in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, is owned by Frank Stronach, the founder and chairman of Magna Entertainment Corp. as well as the creator and driving force behind the Sunshine Millions concept. Ginger Punch was the first horse Stronach has started in the six-year history of the Sunshine Millions.