MIAMI - Just about everyone seems to have conceded the turf championship to Kitten's Joy despite his second-place finish to Better Talk Now in the Breeders' Cup Turf. But H. Graham Motion, who trains Better Talk Now, doesn't quite understand why that should be, and he isn't giving up hope that his horse may still be able to curry favor with the voters before the season ends.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The temperature may be dropping, but trainer Bob Tiller's barn is hot heading into the last five weeks of the meeting.

Tiller sent out Winter Garden to take Saturday's $137,750 Ontario Fashion and Simply Lovely to capture Sunday's $165,900 Fanfreluche.

Last year, Tiller was the leading trainer in races won and money won, and his 15 stakes wins also were tops in that category here.

This year, Tiller has won 13 stakes at the meeting, placing him in a tie for first with Mark Frostad.

Fast early fractions hurt the chances of Summerland, and Accurate was the beneficiary in the $125,000 division of the New York Stallion Stakes at Aqueduct.

Accurate, under Norberto Arroyo, was a neck winner over Summerland. It was another four lengths back to Distinctive Trick in third in the six-furlong race for 2-year-old sons of New York stallions.

Penny's Fortune and Seeking the Heart turned Sunday's $62,725 Audrey Skirball-Kenis Stakes at Hollywood Park into their own private match race, running one-two for virtually the entire 1 1/8-mile turf race. The two ran side by side the length of the straight, with Penny's Fortune holding off Seeking the Heart for a half-length score.

Sweet Win, the 5-2 favorite, finished another half-length back in third, a nose in front of Belle Ange in the field of seven 3-year-old fillies.

Whilly, who ran in three top stakes in Italy before arriving in the United States last spring, scored his first stakes win in the $63,325 Bien Bien Stakes at Hollywood Park.

The victory gave trainer Doug O'Neill a one-two sweep in the restricted race, with Perfect Moon finishing second. Whilly ($8.60) finished a mile on turf in 1:36.23.

The restricted Bien Bien marked Whilly's third start in the United States. He finished third in the Grade 3 Cinema Breeders' Cup Handicap in June and eighth in the Grade 2 Oak Tree Derby last month at Santa Anita.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Blackdoun, who finished seventh in the Breeders' Cup Mile after winning three stakes at Del Mar in the summer, is bound for the $500,000 Hollywood Derby on turf on Nov. 28.

Trainer Julio Canani said one concern is the derby distance of 1 1/4 miles, which is a furlong farther than Blackdoun ran in winning the Del Mar Derby on Sept. 6.

"I don't know how far he'll go," Canani said.

In the BC Mile, Blackdoun had trouble on the final turn. He closed from 13th to finish seventh, 4 1/4 lengths behind upset winner Singletary.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Licari and Storm Fox give trainer John Sadler two formidable starters in a $39,000 allowance race over a mile on turf at Hollywood Park on Wednesday.

A win by either would continue a strong run of success for the Sadler stable, which has won with three of nine starters in the first week of the Hollywood Park meeting.

ALBANY, Calif. - It's never fun when it happens.

Trainer Craig Dollase truly believes he ran the best horse in Saturday's Grade 3 , but he watched Hendrix finish third, then get disqualified to last.

"It's tough when you have the best horse," Dollase said.

Hendrix had room to move out and get in the clear on the second turn of the turf race, but jockey Garrett Gomez decided to wait for an opening, and an opening never developed.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Jockey Steven Bahen swept both Woodbine stakes on Sunday, aboard Simply Lovely in the $165,900 Fanfreluche, and on Le Cinquieme Essai in the $106,000 Labeeb.

Simply Lovely sat just off front-running Something Brewing in the six-furlong Fanfreluche, and took control at the quarter pole before coasting to a two and three-quarter length triumph. The final time was 1:12.41 seconds.

"She broke good and relaxed a little," said Bahen. "When I asked her to pick it up, she started dragging me along, and it was all over."

The dominating win by SLM Snowman in the $300,000 headlined the five Grade 1 stakes comprising the MBNA America Challenge Championship on Saturday night at Sam Houston Race Park.

Sam Houston Race Park set a live handle record of $1,335,862 on the 10-race card. An all-source record was assured with $1,815,798 wagered and the total handle from Los Alamitos not available.