The $45,000 Sweetrickydancer Stakes at Calder started out as an eight-horse race on turf, but ended up a virtual match race on the main track, culminating with a game half-length victory by Amazing Speed over 9-5 favorite Prospect of Love.

Michael Dickinson not only had a karmic advantage in the Da Hoss at Colonial Downs - a race named after his two-time Breeders' Cup Mile winner - he also, it turns out, had the best horse. Bestowed came flying from last place under Joe Rocco Jr. and won the one-mile turf race by 1 1/4 lengths over Touched by Madness. Legal Control finished third in the field of seven 3-year-olds and upward.

Pisgah turned the tables on Max West and Yankee Wildcat, winning the $55,100 Mo Bay Stakes by a half-length at Delaware Park. Max West, who defeated Pisgah in the Turf Monster at Philadelphia Park in May, finished second, with Yankee Wildcat, second to Pisgah's third in the Turf Monster, last of seven older horses in the about five-furlong turf sprint.

Call Me Wild, looking for his fourth straight victory, took all the money in the $54,800 Peppy Addy at Philadelphia Park, going off at 3-5. But he barely raised a hoof, finishing last of six in the seven-furlong race for 3-year-old Pennsylvania-breds, and when the smoke had cleared it was Chase the Line, at 8-1, and Power by Leigh, 7-1, first and second.

ELMONT, N.Y. - With his graded stakes winners Shakespeare and Gun Salute still on the shelf, trainer Bill Mott could use some reinforcements in his male turf division. The regally bred could be ready to heed the call.

After winning a maiden race last November and an allowance race last month, After Market makes his stakes debut in Sunday's Grade 3, $100,000 Lexington Stakes at Belmont Park. The Lexington, run at 1 1/8 miles, drew a modest field of six, including a pair from Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum's Darley Stable.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Sun King's seemingly easy prep for next month's Grade 1 Whitney Handicap turned out not to be so easy after all.

Premium Tap, a late-developing 4-year-old son of Pleasant Tap, may have earned himself a berth in the $750,000 Whitney Handicap with a decisive 3 1/4-length victory over 1-5 favorite Sun King in Friday's $67,200 Albert the Great Stakes at Belmont Park. Kennel Up finished third, followed by Chowder's First. Sinister G and Lieutenant Danz scratched.

Premium Tap gave John Kimmel the 1,000th victory of his training career.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Brother Derek, the winner of the Santa Anita Derby who was fourth in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, will not start in the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on Aug. 6 because of a recent illness, trainer Dan Hendricks said.

Hendricks said that Brother Derek has recovered from a suspected virus detected in June but missed two weeks of training.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Taikun would have won the Flame Thrower Stakes last month at Hollywood Park regardless, but a nasty spill in the stretch cast a pall over an otherwise impressive victory by Taikun in the 5 1/2-furlong turf sprint.

Bear in the Woods broke down and was euthanized, Moth Ball fell, and only five finished the race. Taikun won by 2 1/2 lengths in a quick 1:00.70 as the odds-on favorite. His odds will be short again Sunday in the $65,000 Robert K. Kerlan Memorial Handicap.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Since 1984, when a failed experiment by Churchill Downs had its spring meet endure deep into the summer, the traditional closing of the spring meet has come the first or second weekend of July, depending on when the calendar fell.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - After It's No Joke was drubbed in back-to-back graded stakes this spring, trainer Becky Maker promised not to be so demanding of the colt in the near future. Maker essentially started over with It's No Joke at her home base, Arlington Park, and started looking for easier races.