INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Buzzards Bay won 2 of 4 starts and $503,036 in a 2006 campaign cut short by injury. His trainer, Ron Ellis, thinks that Buzzards Bay can do better this year.

"He seems like a much better horse than last year," Ellis said. "I think the time off has done him well."

Ellis will know by the end of the summer whether his opinion is correct. Buzzards Bay will make his first start in nearly 11 months in Saturday's $150,000 Mervyn Leroy Handicap over 1 1/16 miles. Buzzards Bay's main goal for the summer is the $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup on June 30, Ellis said.

INGLEWOOD, Calif – Tiz Elemental is more than a sprinter.

Sunday at Hollywood Park, she scored her first stakes win in the $200,000 Melair Stakes for 3-year-old California-bred fillies. The Melair was Tiz Elemental’s first win around two turns.

The victory, on the California Gold Rush program for statebreds, capped a memorable day for owner Warren Williamson and trainer Carla Gaines. Earlier in the day, they won the $150,000 Fran’s Valentine Stakes with Nashoba’s Key.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - While most people are looking forward to Wednesday’s opening of Belmont Park, owner Steve Sigler and his partners with Winning Move Stable probably hated to see Aqueduct come to an end on Sunday.

ALBANY, Calif. – Chinese Dragon, making his first start in more than a year, won the first graded stakes of his career, rallying strongly to capture the Grade 2, $300,000 San Francisco Mile by a long nose over Vega’s Lord on Saturday at Golden Gate Fields.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. - Tap Dancing Mauk left the graded stakes company of Florida for Saturday's $100,000 Bosselman/Gus Fonner Stakes at Fonner Park and scored his first win of the year, a one-length score under R.D. Williams.

Yourmoneysnogood, favored at 6-5, never got loose on the lead as last year's runner-up, Motion Approved, shadowed the pace for a half-mile. Motion Approved moved to challenge early on the backstretch and Williams eased Tap Dancing Mauk outside going to the final turn of the mile and a sixteenth race.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Silent Pleasure won his fourth consecutive stakes on Saturday, edging 4-5 favorite Bob and John by a determined neck in the Grade 3, $300,000 Texas Mile at Lone Star Park. Dreamsandvisions closed for third, finishing eight lengths behind Bob and John.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - After Market turned in arguably the best performance of his nine-race career to win Saturday's $108,200 Inglewood Handicap at Hollywood Park.

The victory was his first since joining trainer John Shirreffs's stable earlier this year, and the third career graded stakes win for the well-bred 4-year-old colt.

Ridden by Alex Solis, After Market ($9.20) rallied from fifth in a field of six to win the Grade 3 Inglewood by two lengths. He ran 1 1/16 miles on turf in a quick 1:39.63.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Trainer Paulo Lobo could be in for a memorable spring at Hollywood Park.

Lobo has already won an important race at this meeting, an allowance race last Thursday with the Brazilian import Right Special, who pulled a 16-1 upset against a tough field. Right Special, 5, will be considered for the $300,000 Shoemaker Breeders’ Cup Mile on May 28.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Wiggins is 7 and has raced since the summer of his 2-year-old season, but he may never have run better than he did on Saturday at Hawthorne, winning the $102,375 Milwaukee Avenue Handicap by 10 1/4 lengths.

"I just kept him close to the pace, and he did the rest," said jockey Jerry LaSala, who rode Wiggins for the first time. "He's really classy."

Wiggins, owned by William Pacella and Joe Rizza, won last year's Milwaukee Avenue by four lengths, but this was a more powerful performance.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Just Rushing set dawdling fractions before outrunning a sharp Are You Serious in a determined victory Saturday at Woodbine in the Grade 3, $150,400 Vigil Stakes.

With Emma Wilson aboard, Just Rushing established fractions of 23.41 and 46.31 in the seven-furlong Vigil. Are You Serious came inside Just Rushing at the quarter pole, and held a slim lead throughout most of the stretch, but Just Rushing persevered late and won by a neck, in a final time of 1:23.87.