CHICAGO - There's no magic potion, no numerology, not even a direct line tracing from acquired knowledge to the winner's circle.

"It's really all about having the right horses," trainer Christine Janks said Monday morning.

Spring Rush ($17.80) scored a wire-to-wire, 2 1/2-length victory in the $50,000 Skipat Stakes, the closing-day feature at Pimlico.

Spring Rush, trained by Mark Shuman, was ridden by Steve Hamilton, the meet's leading rider for the second straight year, and is owned by Michael Gill. Hamilton finished the eight-week meet with 50 winners. Gill had a meet-high 25 winners.

Dale Capuano saddled 15 winners, two more than Scott Lake, King Leatherbury, and Ferris Allen.

Snowdrops scored a repeat victory in the $60,000 Politely Stakes for fillies and mares on the grass at Monmouth.

Snowdrops was shuffled and boxed most of the way until jockey Joe Bravo found room in the lane. Snowdrops ($5.80), trained by Christophe Clement, burst through for a 1 3/4-length victory over Dynamia, with Smart N Classy third. Snowdrops ran the 1 1/16 miles on firm turf in 1:42.62.

Receiving a perfect stalking trip from John Velazquez, Sensibly Chic was able to reverse two prior losses to Bank Audit by rolling to a 3 3/4-length victory in the Grade 2, $150,000 at Belmont Park.

Bank Audit, who had beaten Sensibly Chic in the Distaff Breeders' Cup at Aqueduct in March and the Genuine Risk Handicap here in May, rallied belatedly from eighth place to finish second, three-quarters of a length ahead of Ender's Sister.

It was the first graded stakes victory for Sensibly Chic, a 5-year-old New York-bred trained by Tim Tullock.

The 7,136 fans at Canterbury Park were treated to another storied upset on the track's turf course, when Loan Me a Fen took the $50,000 Brooks Fields Stakes.

Sent off at 30-1, the longest price in the field of nine, Loan Me a Fen raced just off the pace, then made an early move to challenge in the 7 1/2-furlong race. Under A. Preto Espindola, Loan Me A Fen wrested command from pace-pressing Our Best Man and held off a late challenge from Dontbotherknocking to win by three-quarters of a length.

Wayzata Bay ($10.80) rallied from off the early pace and wore down even-money favorite Quiet Money for a three-quarter-length win in the $50,000 Prairie Mile for 3-year-olds.

It was Wayzata Bay's first career stakes win and his third win overall in 11 career starts.

STOCKTON, Calif. - Is the 2005 northern California Fair schedule a preview of a new look for summers to come?

Less regional competition, the elimination of Thoroughbred racing at the State Fair in Sacramento, and the debut of the first turf course at a fair will be seen when the fair season begins Wednesday at the San Joaquin County Fair in Stockton.

The trend toward fewer overlapped dates begins immediately as Golden Gate Fields is dark on Wednesday and Thursday, allowing Stockton to offer the only live racing in northern California.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Bring on the boys.

Gold Strike, dominant winner of Sunday's $502,000 , now will set her sights on the $1 million Queen's Plate here June 26.

Four fillies have pulled off the double of the 1 1/8-mile Oaks and 1 1/4-mile Plate since the Oaks was run for the first time when Woodbine opened in 1956.

Flaming Page, in 1962, had exactly one week between the two races, while Dance Smartly had a three-week break in 2001. La Lorgnette and Dancethruthedawn both had two weeks between their Oaks-Plate scores.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Quick in Deed figures to be favored in his initial turf race on Wednesday at Woodbine in the $125,000 Bold Ruckus Stakes, a six-furlong race for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds.

Quick in Deed has won 3 of 6 starts for Glenn Harvey's Kelynack Racing Stable. After winning first time out at 2, he placed in a pair of Ontario sire stakes in the fall, despite suffering shin problems.

Trainer Abraham Katryan said Quick in Deed's shins bothered him the most when he finished second to Enough is Enough in his final 2004 outing, the Frost King Stakes on Oct. 27.

ELMONT, N.Y. - The brief but brilliant career of Ghostzapper came to an abrupt end Monday, when his connections announced that the reigning Horse of the Year has been retired from racing due to a fracture of the sesamoid bone in his left foreleg. Ghostzapper will stand stud next year at owner Frank Stronach's Adena Springs Farm in Versailles, Ky.

According to trainer Bobby Frankel, Ghostzapper suffered the injury while winning the Grade 1 by 6 1/4 lengths at Belmont Park on May 30, his 5-year-old debut. The injury did not show up on regular X-rays, Frankel said.