GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Shaky Town won the $75,000 Bob Johnson Memorial at Lone Star Park and gave his trainer, Cole Norman, his second stakes win in just over an hour on Sunday. Earlier in the afternoon, Norman won the $50,000 Hallowed Dreams at Louisiana Downs with Where Is My Daddy.
Norman has divisions of his stable at both tracks, and was at Lone Star for the final card of the meet on Sunday.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens generously credits jockey Chantal Sutherland with helping develop Smokume into an improving stakes sprinter.
Sutherland and Smokume ($12) were an unbeatable combination Sunday in the Grade 2, $150,000 Tom Fool Handicap at Belmont Park.
Smokume, now 3-for-4 since Sutherland starting riding the 4-year-old gelding this season, won by one length over Willy o'the Valley on the sealed, sloppy track. Clever Electrician was third.
Smokume ran the seven furlongs in 1:21.92.
BOSSIER CITY, La. - Relishing the sloppy going following a heavy downpour, favored Where's My Daddy splashed to a 3 1/2-length win in the Hallowed Dreams Stakes at Harrah's Louisiana Downs on Sunday. Glorious Quest staged a late rally down the middle of the strip to finish second followed by Dear Alicia.
Ridden by Carols Gonzalez, Where's My Daddy ($4.20) dueled while in hand early before disposing of the other speed turning for home. The daughter of High Occupancy drew steadily clear and stopped the timer in 1:11.28 for the six furlongs.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Wannatalkaboutme apparently didn't enjoy the wet track in Sunday's $162,850 Shady Well Stakes at Woodbine, but managed to keep her unbeaten record in tact in the five and a half-furlong dash for Ontario-foaled 2-year-old fillies.
STANTON, Del. - Eleven months ago, Island Sand nearly died from complications following routine surgery for an entrapped epiglottis. Although veterinarians were able to save her life, trainer Larry Jones estimated it was a "one in a million shot" she would ever again be the same filly who won the Grade 1 Acorn at 3.
Nine months after returning to racing and more than a year since her last victory, Island Sand proved she's better than ever by drawing clear for a 3 3/4-length win in Sunday's $1 million at Delaware Park.
STANTON, Del. - High Limit looked like the lone speed in a field of five 3-year-olds, a prime reason the public made the winner of the Louisiana Derby a solid 3-5 choice in Sunday's $300,000 at Delaware Park.
But when High Limit broke in a tangle, Rafael Bejarano, riding Sun King alertly urged his colt to the lead.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Premier Dance handled the wet track and rallied from off the pace to win the $75,000 Middleground Breeders' Cup at Lone Star Park on Saturday. The victory gave leading jockey Cliff Berry a sweep of the two 2-year-old stakes on the card. Earlier on the program he won the $75,000 Silver Spur Breeders' Cup with Hosanna Hit.
With double-digit horses finishing first through fourth in the eighth race Saturday, the superfecta paid $27,389.40 on a dime. There was one winning ten-cent ticket, and it was sold at Penn National.
The winner took the whole pool.
Lumbre won the race at 29-1 and paid $61. He was followed under the wire by Jonesy Rabbit, who was second at 20-1; Gold Expedition, third at 15-1; and Andanight, fourth at 33-1.
The payoff was a meet-high for a ten-cent superfecta at Lone Star.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Dee Dee's Diner, claimed for $80,000 on May 19, led throughout the $76,875 Valkyr Stakes to score her third consecutive win.
Ridden by Kent Desormeaux, Dee Dee's Diner ($5.20) finished six furlongs in 1:09.55. She finished a length in front of Tucked Away. Crowded Room finished third in the field of five California-bred fillies and mares.
Owned by Chris Coleman and trained by Ted H. West, Dee's Dee's Diner, 5, has won 8 of 22 starts and $321,022.
SHAKOPEE, Minn. - Desert Boom led every step of the way under Roberto Gonzalez to defeat Lord of the Game in the $138,000 , highlight of the seventh annual Claiming Crown series Saturday at Canterbury Park.
Desert Boom, a northern California invader owned by Bob Bone and trained by Art Sherman, returned $4.60 as the second choice. A 5-year-old California-bred gelding, Desert Boom entered off a victory in the Grade 3 Berkeley Handicap at Golden Gate Fields, and was one of three graded stakes winners in a field of six.
