HOUSTON - Jockey Roman Chapa, who has been riding out of state for the past four months, made a triumphant return to his home state on Saturday night when he guided Dixie Meister, Marfa's Taxes and Leaving On My Mind to stakes wins on the Texas Champions Day card at Sam Houston Race Park.

The program featured eight stakes for Texas-breds worth a cumulative $475,000.

Dixie Meister ($8.60) rallied for a length and a half win over favorite Agrivating General in the featured $100,000 Star of Texas. It was another length and a half back in third to Dreamsandvisions.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Your Tent or Mine remained unbeaten in two starts with a victory in Saturday's $100,000 at Hollywood Park.

Your Tent or Mine ($14.20) rallied from fourth to take the lead in the final furlong, pulling away to win by 2 1-2 lengths. Ridden by Patrick Valenzuela, Your Tent or Mine finished seven furlongs in 1:21.12.

Da Stoops, who set the early pace, held second, 1 1-2 lengths in front of The Pharaoh. Old Thunder, the even-money favorite, and Bengal Lore completed the order of finish.

LAUREL, Md. - I'm the Tiger wasn't nominated to the Breeders' Cup, so even though trainer Bobby Frankel thinks highly of the 5-year-old gelding, he needed to find someplace other than the BC Sprint to run him this fall.

The $300,000 turned out to be a pretty nice consolation prize for both Frankel and I'm the Tiger.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Put a big red line through that last race for Sundrop - and while you're at it, take her off your Stable Mail.

After finishing last of 14 in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf three weeks earlier, Sundrop, owned by the Godolphin Racing powerhouse, completely reversed that confounding effort on Saturday to win the $175,050 at Churchill Downs.

Godolphin representatives said afterward that the Cardinal was the last career start for Sundrop, who was to be vanned Sunday to Jonabell Farm in Lexington.

The old warrior struck again. Benefiting from a perfect trip beneath Jose Santos and a return to his favorite track, the 7-year-old Evening Attire rallied through the stretch to win Saturday's Grade 3, $108,600 at Aqueduct.

Evening Attire broke a step slowly but quickly recovered to save ground going into the first turn, while expected pacesetter Kennel Up was left at the post and caught widest in the field of six older males.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Absent the usual Thanksgiving Day party atmosphere, absent even its own racetrack, Fair Grounds began its 2005-2006 racing season on Saturday at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City. Admission here is free, so there is no way of counting how many fans came to the races, but there was plenty of empty space on a pleasant fall day that turned sunny midway through the afternoon.

A total of 125 winning $2 tickets, each worth $32,865.20, were sold Saturday on the pick six at Churchill Downs, where a single-day track record of $4,004,157 was poured into a burgeoning jackpot that had not been won the nine previous racing days.

The carryover of $1,694,336 into the Saturday card was a track record.

There were no major surprises in the six-race sequence, with the highest mutuel coming on Sundrop, a 7-1 shot who won the Cardinal Handicap, the second-to-last race of the pick six. Two of the winners were favored.

Finger Lakes canceled the last two races of its nine-race card Saturday after a member of the starting gate crew was injured.

LAUREL, Md. - Michael Matz had a big smile on his face after his 2-year-old colt Barbaro crushed 12 rivals in Saturday's $125,000 Laurel Futurity to remain unbeaten in two career starts. The Laurel Futurity was one of six stakes on the De Francis Memorial Dash undercard.

Barbaro ($7.60), a son of Dynaformer out of the mare La Ville Rouge, won impressively for the second time in a row on grass, finishing eight lengths in front of Diabolical, a colt who had most recently finished third in the Grade 3 Nashua at Belmont Park. The winning time for the 1 1/16 miles was 1:40.17.

Sir Jackie, who had started just twice since winning the Lord Juban Stakes on June 25, rallied from near the rear of the pack to run down a game Notgonagetemtoday and post a 1 1/4-length victory in the $40,000 Blazing Sword Stakes at Calder.

Sir Jackie had only one horse beaten during the opening five furlongs of the 1 1/16-mile Blazing Sword. He advanced swiftly while racing wide leaving the backstretch, caught Notgonagetemtoday and Talented Prince nearing midstretch, and won going away.