Like Mom Like Sons ($2.60) proved a comfortable winner of the $125,400 Woodstock Stakes on Saturday at Woodbine, while threatening the six-furlong track record.

Like Mom Like Sons led throughout under Patrick Husbands, setting moderate fractions of 22.94 and 45.71 seconds, with True Resurgence tracking him.

Like Mom Like Sons opened up a clear lead early in the stretch, then held off a closing Dancer's Bajan to prevail by 1 1/4 lengths. Forbidden Bear finished another 3 1/2 lengths back in third in the six-horse field of 3-year-olds.

Pay the Man alternated in setting and pressing the pace with Magg's Choice the entire six furlongs of the $50,000 Angenora Stakes at Thistledown and won by a scant head. It was a half-length farther back to Casey's Jet in third.

Pay the Man is owned by Pyrite Stables, trained by Miguel Feliciano, and was ridden by Adam Ramgeet. Pay the Man was timed in 1:11.32 over a fast track and returned $15.60 to win.

AUBURN, Wash. - The Great Face equaled a North American dirt record on Friday’s opening day card of the Emerald Downs meet, speeding 5 1/2 furlongs in 1: 01.20 in the feature race, a $50,000 optional claiming affair for older horses.

Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., experienced a 17.3 percent decline in average daily handle on its live races during the 52-date meet that ended April 14, according to figures provided by the track.

The decline was attributable to a drop of almost 30 percent in average offtrack business from a 53-day meet in 2006, when Oaklawn benefited from the closing of Fair Grounds in New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina.

Meanwhile, handle on Oaklawn's races ontrack was up 25.1 percent.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The once-a-year novelty of steeplechase racing at Keeneland resulted in a thrilling finish Friday, with Mixed Up, trained by Hall of Famer Jonathan Sheppard, holding off longshot Good Night Shirt by a neck to win the Grade 1 Royal Chase for the Sport of Kings.

With Danielle Hodsdon riding for owner William Pape, Mixed Up took a narrow lead after the last of 13 jumps, then was all-out to turn back an inside surge by Good Night Shirt, ridden by William Dowling.

All-sources handle and attendance figures for the recently completed 71-day meet at Laurel Park in Maryland fell sharply compared to last year, according to figures released by the track's owner on Friday.

Average all-sources wagering on Laurel's races dropped 7.2 percent, from $2.83 million to $2.63 million, with ontrack handle on the live card dropping 13.1 percent, from $286,000 a day to $249,000 a day. Wagering on Laurel's simulcast signal dropped 6.5 percent, from $2.54 million to $2.38 million a day.

STICKNEY, Ill. - The Wayne Catalano stable has heated up at Hawthorne - and points beyond. Catalano has won with 11 of 29 starters here, and last Saturday had Lewis Michael turn in a strong performance in the Commonwealth Breeders' Cup at Keeneland. But, as has often been the case, Lewis Michael encountered a horse who ran out of his skin, in this case Silent Name, who probably turned in the most impressive Polytrack performance of the Keeneland meet.

"Lewis just ran the best race of his life," said Steve Leving, stable manager for owner Frank Calabrese.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - If horses are judged by the company they keep then Mighty Eros figures to be highly regarded by bettors seeking to find the winner of Sunday's $100,000 Park Avenue Division of the New York Stallion Stakes at Aqueduct.

Mighty Eros, a 3-year-old daughter of Freud, won her debut last month by 11 1/4 lengths, running six furlongs in 1:11.92 and earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 81. The second-, third-, and fourth-place finishers from that race each won her next start.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Mark Casse, last year's Sovereign Award-winning trainer, captured the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks in 2006 with Kimchi, who went on to be voted Canada's champion 3-year-old filly.

Kimchi no longer is in Casse's care, but he has his usual solid outfit and will send out Sanibel and Silky Smooth in Sunday's $125,000 Star Shoot.

The Star Shoot, a six-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies, is the first local prep on the road to the June 10 Woodbine Oaks at 1 1/8 miles.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The walls of trainer Juan Reviriego's stable office on the Santa Anita backstretch offer a brief tour of his professional and personal life.

There are photos of Reviriego's career as a jockey and trainer in Argentina, photos of his wife and two daughters, and a few of Reviriego with celebrities such as Julio Iglesias, Rudolf Nureyev, and Willie Nelson.

One wall has a collection of win photos of his American racing stable, a highlight package of the three years that Reviriego, 61, has trained in California.