Voodoo Gold ran his local record to 4 for 4 at Evangeline Downs on Friday, when he defeated 10 rivals by 12 1/4 lengths in the $50,000 Bayouland Sales Stakes.

Voodoo Gold covered the six furlongs in 1:11.74 over a fast strip. Lexi's Luck finished second, followed by Unofficial and early pacesetter Lanes Train.

Trained by Cole Norman, Voodoo Gold ($3) also won the John Franks Memorial Stakes and the D. S. "Shine" Young Futurity over the summer before finishing unplaced in a pair of stakes at Louisiana Downs this fall.

MIAMI - A day that began on a sour note for the team of jockey Jerry Bailey and trainer Bill Mott ended in the Calder winner's circle after favored Silver Tree outfinished the 41-1 longshot Demeteor by a neck in Saturday's $100,000 .

Saint Augustus gave trainer Todd Pletcher yet another stakes victory during his record-setting 2005 season when he rallied from off a hotly contested pace to post a 2 1/2-length victory over Big Lover in the $100,000 What a Pleasure Stakes. Flanders Fields, the surprising 7-5 favorite in the field of seven 2-year-olds, finished fourth.

Trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. has won more than his share of stakes during his career. But few, if any, have meant more than Stolen Prayer's one-length victory over the 8-5 favorite Capozzene in the $100,000 Three Ring Stakes.

Plesa trained the ill-fated Three Ring during her short but extremely successful career that ended tragically following a paddock mishap in New York.

"Of all the named races they have here I was just really glad to be able to win this race," said Plesa.

Of all the curious aspects of the career of , including breaking through for his first victory in a stakes race, he has yet to run in a race around one turn. Sure, he sprinted in his debut at Fairplex, but that was around two turns.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Solid efforts by in two stakes caught the attention of sheets maven Jerry Brown, who advised Ro Parra to purchase her. Sunday, Brown's assessment gets its initial test when Zippy Missy makes her first start for Parra's Millennium Farms in the $75,000 East View Stakes at Aqueduct.

A New York-bred, Zippy Missy is one of 10 juvenile fillies who will have to prove themselves in a two-turn race at 1 1/16 miles. Zippy Missy, who is now trained by Steve Asmussen, will also have to overcome post 9.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Even though there is not a stakes at Fair Grounds at Louisiana Downs on Sunday, the card does not lack for quality thanks to a pair of high-dollar optional claiming affairs.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Sugar Swirl, the only Bobby Frankel-trained runner left at Woodbine, should be tough to run down in Sunday's $162,150 Ontario Lassie Stakes for Ontario-foaled 2-year-old fillies.

Sugar Swirl, a Stronach Stable homebred by Touch Gold, graduated second time out in a seven-furlong maiden special weight event in September. She was subsequently favored in the $251,600 Princess Elizabeth, a prestigious stakes for Canadian-breds, and led throughout to complete 1 1/16 miles in 1:50, receiving a Beyer Speed Figure of 70.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - With a prep race behind her and a return to the main track, is ideally placed to win the second stakes of her career in Sunday's $95,000 Cat's Cradle Handicap at Hollywood Park.

That is the opinion of trainer Bob Baffert, who was very confident when entries were drawn Friday.

"She's sitting on a big one," Baffert said.

The 120-pound starting highweight, Western Hemisphere is the likely favorite in the Cat's Cradle, run over 7 1/2 furlongs on dirt for California-bred fillies and mares.

PORTLAND, Ore. - A pair of open stakes for 2-year-olds will be contested at Portland Meadows on Sunday, and that usually means the Oregon-breds who enter have to take a back seat.

Not this time, however, as statebred Cascades Express figures as a strong favorite in the Lassie Stakes for fillies and Tom Two should be a slight choice over fellow Oregon-bred Cascadians Cuttie in the Columbia River Stakes for colts and geldings. Both of the $10,000 events will be contested at six furlongs.