ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Darrell Vienna is never quite sure whether Star Parade is going to run one of her better races, or turn in a somnambulant performance. She always trains strongly, but sometimes that does not translate in the afternoon.

On Saturday at Santa Anita, though, Star Parade did not sleepwalk. She put her rivals in a trance. Star Parade, on the bit and eager from the outset, took the lead at the top of the stretch and turned back a mid-stretch bid from favored Proposed to capture the Grade 1, $250,000 for older fillies and mares.

ALBANY, Calif. - Sierra Sweetie ($5.80) unleashed a strong stretch kick to capture the $96,250 at Golden Gate Fields on Saturday.

Favored in the 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-old fillies, Sierra Sweetie broke a bit slowly, raced between rivals down the backstretch but proved best late as she angled into the clear approaching the quarter pole and pulling away from Private World late. She won by 1 3/4 lengths in 1:43.64.

Apprentice Martin Garcia, who won the Foster City Handicap at Bay Meadows last weekend, recorded his second straight stakes victory.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Rockport Harbor signaled his intent to be a player in this year's wide-open handicap division when, in his first start in nine months, he withstood a stretch challenge and went on to a two and a quarter length win in the Grade 3, $100,000 at Oaklawn Park on Saturday.

Thunder Mission finished second in the race, and it was another neck back in third to Silver Axe.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Heavily favored Achilles of Troy was running so easily for the first six furlongs of Saturday's at Aqueduct that his jockey, Ramon Dominguez, wondered if his horse would respond when asked.

Dominguez's fears were soon allayed when he asked Achilles of Troy to run turning for home and Achilles of Troy accelerated past the pace-setting One Way Flight and drew off to a 4 3/4-length victory in the $70,915 Whirlaway at snowy Aqueduct. One Way Flight held second, six lengths ahead of Rob'em Blind.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Christophe Clement is hopeful the continuing education of will result in a second consecutive victory Monday, when Saffir takes on eight rivals in a $35,000 allowance feature at Gulfstream Park. The main event is scheduled to be run at five furlongs on the turf.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Gulch Approval gave trainer Reynaldo Abreu the first stakes win of his career, leading throughout for a half-length victory over Old Dodge in Saturday's $100,000 at Gulfstream Park. Host finished eighth as the 7-5 favorite in a field of nine in the one-mile turf race.

, who was a finalist for champion 3-year-old filly of 2005, will make her seasonal debut on Thursday in a six-furlong optional claiming race at Oaklawn Park.

Round Pond has not raced since July, when she finished second in the Grade 2, $500,000 Delaware Oaks. Following the race, she was found to have a small bone chip in her left knee, and the bone chip has since been removed. For her comeback, Round Pond has turned in a series of impressive workouts at Oaklawn, her latest coming last Sunday.

Sir Shackleton lived up to his billing as the 9-10 choice in Saturday's $50,000 Super Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, swinging out to the middle of the track out of the turn and running down Above the Wind to post a 1 1/4-length victory in track-record time.

Celestial Legend showed in the $66,500 Wide Country Stakes at Laurel that she has the courage to go with her obvious talent, overcoming a rough trip to nip Cantora in the final strides and remain unbeaten in six starts.

Cat Quatorze gave apprentice Julien Leparoux his fifth win on the 12-race Saturday card at Turfway Park when drawing clear after a perfect trip to win the $50,000 Likely Exchange Stakes.

Cat Quatorze, a 4-year-old Louis Quatorze filly trained by Helen Pitts, was always in a great position in the one-mile race. After breaking sharply, she allowed the 47-1 front-runner, Quite a Ruckus, to speed away to the lead, but by the far turn, Cat Quatorze was breathing down her neck.