ALBANY, Calif. - Golden Gate Fields will have a carryover of over $225,000 when racing resumes Sunday after a series of longshots won the first three races on Monday's card.
First-timer Chullo Uno scored a $143 upset in the first leg of the Pick Six, which entered the day with a $94,951 carryover.
Trainer W.L. McDaniel, 0-for-82 on the year, saddled back-to-back winners in the next two legs, winning with Wild Sissy ($80.40) and Cantresisthiskiss ($82.60).
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Don Six took advantage of the fortuitous scratches of two speed horses and then proceeded to go gate to wire to win Sunday's Grade 3, $109,400 by 1 1-4 lengths at Aqueduct.
Mr Whitestone rallied from well back to be second, one-half length ahead of Papua. Gators n Bears, the 4-5 favorite, faded to fourth after chasing Don Six for the opening five furlongs. Black Silk and Eavesdropper completed the order of finish.
ALBANY, Calif. - Cee's Irish ($4.20) gave trainer Doug O'Neill a sweep of the weekend stakes races at Golden Gate Fields when she caught Island Escape and stuck her nose in front at the wire to win the $60,400 on Sunday.
Cee's Irish raced four wide the entire race but pulled even with pacesetting Island Escape in the lane. The two alternated on the lead with Cee's Irish proving best at the wire, winning the one-mile race for 2-year-old fillies by a nose in 1:36.94. On London Time rallied along the rail to finish third one-half length behind the first two runners.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Splendid Blended showed in Sunday's $389,000 Hollywood Starlet that she has grown up quite nicely.
After racing erratically in the Oak Leaf Stakes in October, Splendid Blended turned in a professional performance to win the first stakes of her career in the Grade 1 .
The victory marked the most prestigious win for owner-breeder Peter Vegso of Boca Raton, Fla., and gives him a top contender for the major stakes for 3-year-old fillies in 2005.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - After 50 weeks of uncertainty, clarity at last was reached on Saturday in determining the nation's champion 2-year-old male. In a title-deciding match, the unbeaten Declan's Moon turned back Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Wilko and Champagne Stakes winner Proud Accolade in the Grade 1, $449,500 .
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Once considered most effective as a turf sprinter, has been slowly shaking that reputation over the last five months.
During her current three-race winning streak, she has won two allowance races over a mile and defended her title in the Grade 3 Sen. Ken Maddy Handicap over about 6 1/2 furlongs on Santa Anita's hillside turf course in October.
MIAMI - Dreadnaught was running in maiden races over the jumps last summer and was still eligible for his second-level allowance condition on the flats in early October.
Saturday at Calder, he won his second Grade 2 race in less than a month after wearing down Demeteor in the final strides to register a neck victory in the $200,000 .
MIAMI - Trainer Bobby Frankel said Arvada had no excuse in her last start, when she finished third behind the highly regarded Eleusis in the Long Island Handicap at Belmont Park. Saturday at Calder, Arvada needed no excuses after she withstood a late charge from tepid favorite Humaita to post a head victory in the $200,000 .
The Grade 2 La Prevoyante, a 1 1/2-mile turf race for fillies and mares, was one of four stakes on the Grand Slam II program.
