Seattles Best Joe ($12.60) sat well off a swift pace before making a strong move in the lane to win the $50,700 Sausalito Stakes at Golden Gate Fields.

Ridden by Dennis Carr, Seattles Best Joe was last through the opening quarter, as odds-on Stormin' Lyon and Carthage battled through an opening quarter in 21.53 seconds. He was still far back as the two leaders went the opening half in 43.83. Stormin' Lyon began to ease clear of Carthage, but Seattles Best Joe rallied down the middle of the track to win by five lengths, covering six furlongs in 1:08.59.

Celestial Legend extended her unbeaten streak to three Friday night with a 3 1/2-length victory in the $50,000 Holly Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at The Meadowlands Racetrack.

Ridden by Chris DeCarlo, Celestial Legend ($3.40) dueled for the early lead before dropping back slightly. She launched another bid in the lane that carried her to an easy win over Wild and Proud, with Primary Motive third. Celestial Legend ran the six furlongs on the fast track in 1:09.52.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Two $55,000 New Jersey-bred handicaps top the first of a pair of "make-up" Tuesdays at The Meadowlands Racetrack.

The Accordant and the Queen Lib headline a nine-race card that gets under way at 1:10 p.m.

The Big M also added an Election Day matinee on Nov. 8 to help offset the seven weather-related cancellations this meet.

Both Tuesday stakes will be run at six furlongs.

MUSKEGON, Mich. - Charedi's Peak heads a field of eight entered in the $48,000-added Michigan Juvenile Fillies at Great Lakes Downs on Tuesday. The seven-furlong race is the first race on the card, which has a 5 p.m. eastern first post.

Divisional awards for the 2005 season will be presented after live racing on Tuesday.

Jockey Michel Lapensee died late Friday night from injuries suffered when he fell from his mount in last Monday's ninth race at Suffolk Downs. He was 58.

Originally from Montreal, Quebec, Lapensee was a 30-year veteran of racing in his adopted home of New England, winning his first race at Blue Bonnets in his hometown and his first U.S. race at Green Mountain in Vermont in 1967.

Seattles Best Joe ($12.60) sat well off a swift pace before making a strong move in the lane to win the $50,700 Sausalito Stakes Saturday at Golden Gate Fields.

Seattles Best Joe was last through the opening quarter as odds-on Stormin' Lyon and Carthage battled through a 21.53 opening quarter. He was still far back as the two leaders went the opening half in 43.83.

Stormin' Lyon began to ease clear of Carthage, but Seattles Best Joe rallied down the middle of the track to win by five lengths, covering six furlongs in 1:08.59.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The clocks change overnight Saturday. So does the live racing venue in Kentucky.

Gone are the Indian summer afternoons of Keeneland, displaced by the early nightfall and winter whispers of Churchill Downs. A 21-day meet begins Sunday at Churchill, where the fields will be full, the mutuel payoffs will frequently light up the toteboard, and, in a seamless transition from Keeneland to Churchill, horseplayers will be able to continue enjoying a classy brand of racing.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Arguably the most eventful 12-month period in the history of Churchill Downs Inc. began at just about this time last year. A major push for slots at the company's south Florida track, Calder, narrowly failed on Nov. 2 in Miami-Dade County, after which a heated and complex controversy over jockey insurance soon followed at the company's flagship track, Churchill Downs.

And that was just the beginning.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Before he disperses most of his huge stable to south Florida and New York for the long winter ahead, Dale Romans has pressing business at the 21-day Churchill Downs fall meet, which begins Sunday.

Like many trainers in the Midwest, Romans has been planning ahead for the winter because there will be no meet at the Fair Grounds because of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Romans said he will be active at three tracks: Turfway Park, Gulfstream Park, and for the first time in several years, Aqueduct.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Yankee Master made the demanding jump from maiden victory to stakes company look easy in the $125,000 at Keeneland Friday, winning by five lengths.

Confidently ridden by Rafael Bejarano, who won four races on the day, Yankee Master was rated in fourth early, as Hyte Regency raced on the lead with moderate fractions of 47.63 and 1:12.98 in the 1 1/16-mile turf contest. Around the turn Yankee Master began to pick up ground on the leaders, and once into the stretch, the race was essentially over.