ELMONT, N.Y. - Sand Springs and Intercontinental are both talented and temperamental fillies. On Saturday, Sand Springs's talent won out over Intercontinental's temperament in the $300,000 at Belmont Park.

Despite being pressed while racing on the lead and in the center of the turf course, Sand Springs spurted clear turning for home under John Velazquez and easily held off Intercontinental, the 7-10 favorite, to win the Grade 2 Just a Game by 2 1/2 lengths. It was another half-length back to Wonder Again in third.

When the name Holy Bull came up during Belmont Week it was in connection with one of his sons, this year's Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo, who was running in the Belmont Stakes. But another son of Holy Bull, Woke Up Dreamin, generated buzz earlier Saturday, winning the Grade 2 .

A game performance by Judy Soda went for naught as the stewards disqualified her from first place for bumping Madonna Lily twice in deep stretch of the $69,300 White Carnation Stakes. Madonna Lily ($16.40), who finished a half-length behind Judy Soda, was placed first.

It was the third straight victory for Madonna Lily. A 4-year-old daughter of Elusive Quality, she is owned by John and Susan Moore and trained by Jimmy Jerkens.

MIAMI - As trainers Tim Ritchey and John Shirreffs have done with Afleet Alex and Giacomo in the Triple Crown, John Biszantz has carefully prepared Perspicacious to withstand the rigors of Calder's three-race series known as the Senior Triple.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Miss Matched, ridden by Shaun Bridgmohan, notched her first stakes victory Saturday when leading every step of the way in the Grade 3, $162,900 at Churchill Downs.

Owned by John Oxley and trained by John T. Ward Jr., Miss Matched returned $16.80 as the second-longest shot in a field of seven 3-year-old fillies. Culinary, the 2-1 favorite, finished second, 2 1/4 lengths behind the winner and another 1 3/4 lengths ahead of Caroline's Gold. Runway Model, the 2-1 second choice, bolted leaving the final turn and finished far back in last.

MUSKEGON, Mich. - Demagoguery, the 2004 Michigan juvenile champion, will try to make it 2 for 2 at this meet when he faces eight other 3-year-old Michigan-bred colts and geldings in the $45,000 Lansing Stakes at Great Lakes Downs on Monday evening. The six-furlong race is the sixth on the card, which begins at 5 p.m. All starters will carry 122 pounds.

Don Six lived up to his 3-10 favoritism with a wire-to-wire victory in the $65,000 Longfellow Stakes at Monmouth Park, one of three stakes on the day there.

Don Six and jockey Aaron Gryder were chased by 14-1 Bold Days throughout the six-furlong race, winning by 2 1/4 lengths. Bold Days held second by 3 1/4 lengths over Dashboard Drummer, who took third in the field of six 3-year-olds and up.

Cherokee's Boy put away favored Private Lap and just held off the late charge of Separato to win the $100,000 Brandywine Handicap at Delaware Park.

Travis Dunkelberger took Cherokee's Boy straight to the lead in the Brandywine, a 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds and up. They kicked away from Private Lap after setting fractions of 24.02, 47.53, and 1:11.60, but by midstretch Separato and Ouagadougou, the last two in the field of seven down the backstretch, were flying. Cherokee's Boy won by a neck, with Separato 1 3/4 lengths ahead of Ouagadougou.

A very slow pace helped Legal Control and jockey Luis Garcia turn back stretch bids from Monster Chaser and It's Time to Smile and win the $50,000 Deputed Testamony Stakes at Pimlico. Monster Chaser finished a head back of Legal Control in second and a neck in front of It's Time to Smile, who was third in the 1 1/16-mile race for Maryland-bred 3-year-olds.

Mister Coop beat a troubled Barbeau Ruckus when they met a month ago in the six-furlong New Providence Stakes, but the tables were turned Saturday at Woodbine when Barbeau Ruckus nailed Mister Coop on the wire in the $126,600 Steady Growth Stakes.

Barbeau Ruckus set honest early fractions in the 1 1/16-mile event. Mister Coop made a wide bid on the far turn and established a clear lead early in the stretch, but then began to drift in a little. Jockey Todd Kabel took Barbeau Ruckus outside of Mister Coop at the sixteenth pole, and they surged late to prevail by a neck.