INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The prediction that Patrick Valenzuela issued in the paddock before he rode Lava Man in Saturday's $750,000 turned out to be prophetic.

Valenzuela told owners Steve and David Kenley and Jason Wood and trainer Doug O'Neill not to worry too much about pre-race tactics. Lava Man, Valenzuela said, could be anywhere as the race unfolded and still manage to win.

"'I can sit second. I can sit third. I can sit fourth. I could be on the lead,'" Valenzuela said in the paddock.

Then, he went out and proved it.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Bonfante ($8.20) won his second consecutive stakes, defeating early pacesetter Flying Supercon by one-half length to win the $53,550 Sam J. Whiting Memorial Handicap at the Alameda County Fair on Saturday.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The lesson learned by jockey Alex Solis in last month's Affirmed Handicap paid off handsomely on Saturday, when more aggressive handling helped propel Surf Cat to a runaway, five-length victory in the Grade 2, $400,000 for 3-year-olds at Hollywood Park.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Diane Nelson wouldn't have been surprised if she had been replaced aboard Acey Deucey in Saturday's Grade 1 for 3-year-old fillies.

Nelson's business had declined to the point where she had just 16 mounts at this meet and 63 for the entire year. But owner Jeffrey Tucker and trainer John Morrison believe Nelson fits Acey Deucey best, and Saturday they were proven right.

The South American nation of Peru has become fertile territory for world-class jockeys. River Downs, the Cincinnati track that's into trying different things, will hold a special program Monday that honors that Peruvian pipeline.

Horses in two races at River, the eighth and 10th, will be ridden exclusively by jockeys from Peru. The special event will benefit the Jockey School of Peru, where many spectacularly successful riders, including Edgar Prado, Jorge Chavez, Jose Valdivia Jr., and Rafael Bejarano, learned the ropes before immigrating to the United States.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Robby Albarado capped a memorable afternoon when Effectual gave the veteran jockey his fifth win on the Saturday card by running away with the 105th at Churchill Downs.

Effectual, trained by Steve Asmussen, was making just her second career start when capturing the 5 1/2-furlong Debutante in 1:03.95 over a fast track. Effectual, an easy winner of an April 15 maiden race at Keeneland, returned $8.60 as second choice in the Grade 3 Debutante. She won by 2 1/2 lengths.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Goosey Moose defended his title in the $125,000 Assault Stakes at Lone Star Park on Saturday, when he rallied for a length win over Agrivating General.

The 1 1/16-mile race was one of six restricted stakes worth a cumulative $575,000 on the annual Stars of Texas Day program.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Perhaps it was the shower that pelted Monmouth Park two races earlier that gave the mud-craving Capeside Lady her kind of track.

Or it could be that Capeside Lady, now 4, has matured into a solid stakes filly.

Whatever the reasons, Capeside Lady ($5) scored a dominant front-running victory in the Grade 2, $300,000 for fillies and mares on Saturday.

With Chris DeCarlo aboard for trainer Todd Pletcher, Capeside Lady shot to the front in the 1 1/16-mile race and dictated the pace.

They never looked back.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Fort Erie will offer a stakes race on both its Monday and Tuesday programs, and each event could be taken by the same horse who won in 2004.

Kissed by a Prince returns to defend her title in the H.A. Hindmarsh on Monday, while Domascas Consort is back looking to repeat in Tuesday's H.J. Addison.

Both $40,000 stakes will be contested at 1 1/16 miles and are restricted to runners who have been offered for sale at one of Woodbine's open yearling or 2-year-olds in training sales.

Alphabet Kisses, the 8-5 favorite under Gary Stevens, goes wire to wire to win her third straight sprint stakes in the at Hollywood.

Racing on her home track and over a distance at which she excels, Alphabet Kisses proved to be unbeatable in Saturday's $150,000 A Gleam Handicap at Hollywood Park.

Ridden by Gary Stevens, Alphabet Kisses ($5.20) led throughout the seven-furlong A Gleam, winning by three lengths over Valentine Dancer. Alphabet Kisses was timed in a quick 1:21.67.