Hawthorne Race Course, which opens a fall-winter meet on Sept. 23, has announced an across-the-board purse increase effective at the beginning of the track's race season.

Purses will be raised between $500 per race for lower-level claimers and maiden-claimers, and $2,000 per race for open maiden and allowance horses.

At last year's fall Hawthorne meet, maiden special weight races went for $26,000, so maidens this fall will run for $28,000. That is significantly higher than current purse values at Arlington, where a maiden race now is worth only $25,000.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Ronny Werner doesn't know when or where Flying Glitter will run next following her pacesetting score in Sunday's Grade 3, $200,000 for 3-year-old fillies.

The trainer does know she created a fresh range of options with the Oaks victory.

"She came out of it great," Werner said. "I wanted to see how the distance shaped up. That was a little bit of a question mark."

Flying Glitter handled the 1 1/16 miles just fine in posting her first two-turn victory.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainers Josie Carroll and Malcolm Pierce share Barn 39 here at Woodbine.

So, perhaps it was appropriate that Carroll and Pierce shared the spotlight here last weekend, winning for the two stakes features and each adding a lucrative allowance that featured stakes-caliber performances.

Carroll capped her weekend by sending out Edenwold to capture Sunday's $159,900 Vandal after watching Estevan score impressively under third-level allowance terms a day earlier.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - In a racing rarity, Vaganova remains at the same allowance condition following a stirring victory in Wednesday's Woodbine feature, a $62,500 optional claimer for fillies and mares.

Vaganova, a French import owned by Bill Diamant, won her maiden in her North American debut here in July 2003. She was subsequently sidelined for nearly two years, and was second when she returned to action in a June 12 allowance.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Like mother, like daughter.

Just as her dam, Wild Creek, did eight years ago, Wild Bender captured Alberta's premier stakes offering for 3-year-old fillies, the $100,000 Alberta Centennial, on Saturday.

Formerly known as the Sonoma Stakes but renamed for this year to mark the province's 100th birthday, the Alberta Centennial saw Rickey Walcott win his seventh stakes in less than two months of the Northlands meet. Walcott said that Wild Bender's trainer, Dale Saunders, asked him to change strategy for the race.

DEL MAR, Calif. - What a Song showed on Sunday why is the top-ranked 2-year-old in California.

Remaining unbeaten after three starts, What a Song ($3.60) showed remarkable poise to score an impressive victory in the $150,000 at Del Mar. Ridden by Victor Espinoza, What a Song finished 6 1-2 furlongs in 1:15.64, winning by 2 3-4 lengths over Bashert.

They were the first two finishers in the Hollywood Juvenile Championship last month.

Real Dandy had paid his dues. He had picked up checks in all six of the stakes he had started in since March, while lining up against a series of noted 3-year-olds like Afleet Alex, Flower Alley, Don't Get Mad, Scipion and High Limit. And on Sunday at Mountaineer Race Track, it was finally all about Real Dandy. Closing from last-to-first, he won the Grade 3, $750,000 by a length and a quarter over Magna Graduate. It was the first career stakes win for Real Dandy, and it came before a crowd of 19,020 on the richest day of racing in the history of West Virginia.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Our Love made every a pole a winning one Sunday afternoon at Harrah's Louisiana Downs as she wired seven rivals in the Sangue Handicap in course record time. Chitchat Chitchat finished a non-threatening second followed by starting highweight Due to Win Again.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - It took nearly two years for Dave to win his first two races. It took five days to win his next two.

After winning an allowance race here on Wednesday, Dave, the recipient of a ground-saving trip from Jose Santos, rallied past Provincetown in the final furlong to win Sunday's $113,600 West Point Handicap at Saratoga. Provincetown, who set a strong early pace under Chantal Sutherland, held second, a neck ahead of favorite Certifiably Crazy.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Edenwold won his second straight stakes after breaking from the one post Sunday at Woodbine in the $159,900 Vandal, a six-furlong dash for Ontario-foaled 2-year-olds.

Edenwold dueled on the lead with No Dilettante through fractions of :22.98 and :45.89, as Victoria's Boy stalked three-wide in third. Victoria's Boy loomed boldly exiting the turn, and drew evenly with Edenwold at the eighth pole, but Edenwold dug in and drew off for a two and a quarter-length tally.