Malibu Moonshine ($8.60), responding to the addition of blinkers and a jockey change, drew off in the final furlong for a 4 3/4-length victory in the $51,150 St. Nick Stakes for 2-year-olds at Charles Town.

Mark Rosenthal chose to ride Malibu Moonshine for trainer King Leatherbury instead of sticking with recent maiden winner Sueno Del Mar. Malibu Moonshine and Sueno Del Mar were separated by only a head at the eighth pole when Rosenthal got his mount to summon a late burst of speed.

Wild Remarks, the 2-1 favorite, finished third, 1 1/2 lengths behind Sueno Del Mar.

Despite losing his irons at the start, Rafael Bejarano guided Angel Trumpet to a popular three-length victory in the 20th running of the $50,000 Gowell Stakes at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky.

Angel Trumpet, bred and owned by Dreabon Copeland and trained by Bernie Flint, caught the eventual runner-up, Coronado Rose, entering the far turn in the six-furlong Gowell, then steadily drew clear for her first stakes victory, and third win overall, from eight lifetime starts. Flint also sent out the third-place finisher, Im a Dixie Girl, in the field of eight 2-year-old fillies.

High Blitz ($15), fourth at 50-1 in his only previous stakes appearance, blew past 1-5 favorite Danieltown inside the sixteenth pole to earn a 1 1/2-length victory in the $75,000 Christmas Stakes.

The 4-year-old High Blitz, trained by Justin Nixon and ridden by Joe Stokes, had spent most of the year racing against optional claimers at Fort Erie and Woodbine in Canada. He was coming off a career-best 98 Beyer Speed Figure in the Distorted Humor at Churchill Downs, a race in which he was beaten 3 1/4 lengths by Strength and Honor.

The undefeated Cajun Pepper responded to the biggest test of his career with a powerful effort, dominating Sunday's $161,331 at Sunland Park by four and a quarter lengths and running his career record to 5-for-5.

Voronin finished second in the six and a half furlong race, four and a half lengths clear of third-place finisher Leverage.

Cajun Pepper ($3.20), who was the 3-5 favorite, stalked pacesetter Railroad through an opening half-mile in 43.71 seconds. Cajun Pepper then took over and drew clear through the stretch, covering the distance in 1.15.15.

According to Sunland officials, Mongoose Jet Eye set a world record for 400 yards when she won the $400,000 for Quarter Horses in 19.01 seconds on Sunday. She was two and a half lengths clear of second-place finisher Push the Pace, who finished a neck in front of third-place finisher and favorite Slm Snowman.

Cash for Kas, winner of the Champion of Champions, finished fourth in the Championship.

ARCADIA, Calif. - He's big, he's bad, and he's back. Rock Hard Ten, the imposing colt with the bad-boy attitude, showed that he will be a force in 2005 with a stirring, last-to-first run to capture the Grade 1, $250,000 on Santa Anita's opening-day card Sunday.

A raucous crowd of 31,874, lured by a weekend opening, a six-day break since the closing of Hollywood Park, and a sensational card of racing - the most important ingredient - watched Rock Hard Ten knife between rivals and get up in the closing strides to beat a trio of runners from Doug O'Neill's barn.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Bettors failed to hit the pick six at Santa Anita on Sunday's opening day program, leaving a carryover of $177,783 for Monday.

The pick six on Monday covers the fourth through ninth races. Weather could play a factor in the program. There is a significant chance that rain early afternoon.

Two of the pick six races - the fourth and sixth - are scheduled for turf, and could come off with inclement weather.

ALBANY, Calif. - Scrofa ($11.20), who won her previous start despite a six-wide trip, turned a ground-saving trip into a stakes victory in the $100,000 at Golden Gate Fields on Sunday.

With pacesetter Marty's Zee racing very wide off the rail, jockey Omar Figueroa Jr. kept Scrofa to the inside while maintaining a good stalking position.

"[Trainer Paul Aguirre] told me to ride the same as when I won with her [at Fairplex], just save some ground," Figueroa said. "It was very nice. I waited for the speed, then came through on the inside."

ARCADIA, Calif. - The slates are all clean on Sunday, opening day of the 2004-2005 winter racing season Santa Anita. It will not stay that way.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Jeff Mullins was the leading trainer last year at Santa Anita, stopping the seven-year streak of Bob Baffert. He won the Santa Anita Derby with Castledale, his second straight victory in that race.

Mullins won 45 races in 166 starts for a strike rate of 27 percent. This fall, however, his percentage sagged, and Mullins is not certain he will be as effective the first part of Santa Anita's meet, even with Castledale nearing a comeback.