PLEASANTON, Calif. - Wind Water ($19.80) set a new Alameda County Fair track record with a 56.20 clocking for five furlongs as he won the $53,465 Everett Nevin Alameda County Futurity by four lengths over Johnny High Brite on Sunday.
Wind Water broke Czarina's track record of 56.60 set July 2, 1997.
The 2-year-old Cal-bred ran third in his debut in the Malcolm Anderson Stakes on June 13 at Bay Meadows.
BOSSIER CITY, La. - Jockey E. J. Perrodin has worked his mastery for years over the John Franks Turf Course so Sunday's upset of odds-on favorite Waupaca in the Independence Handicap while aboard Sea Dub should have come as no surprise. Longshot Virginia Pride out-nodded Waupaca for the place spot, three quarters of a length behind the winner. Crowned King, the co-highweight at 116 pounds, finished fourth.
America America held off favorite Topango by a neck to win the $100,000 Lone Star Oaks before an estimated crowd of 24,000 on Sunday night at Lone Star Park. It was another length and three quarters back in third to Dancing Meg.
America America, who is in foal to El Prado, assumed a stalking position soon after the start of the mile and a sixteenth turf race, took the lead in the stretch, and went on to cover the distance over firm turf in 1:43.96.
Roman Chapa rode the winner, who paid $13.60.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Quite a Ruckus made quite a splash in Sunday's $142,125 My Dear Stakes, winning the five-furlong dash for 2-year-old fillies at Woodbine in her first career start.
Quite a Ruckus tracked front-running Something Brewing through an opening quarter of :22.29 seconds, as 1-2 favorite South Bay Cove assumed a stalking position along the rail. Quite a Ruckus hit the front at the eighth pole, and then drew away to a four-length tally, in a final time of :58.12 seconds.
FORT ERIE, Ontario - Touchnow, under the clever handling of jockey Patrick Husbands, prevailed by a neck following a stretch long-duel with the previously undefeated 1-9 favorite Eye of the Sphynx to capture the $250,000 Labatt Bison City Stakes here Sunday.
The 6-1 second choice in the field of six for the 1 1/16 mile Bison City, Touchnow ensured that the Triple Tiara for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies would remain unclaimed through the fifth year of its existence.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - If Ballingarry only raced on Arlington Park's grass course he might be a champion. Ballingarry's sole 2003 win came here in the Stars and Stripes Handicap, and he had lost five in a row before Sunday, when he won another Stars and Stripes.
Ballingarry looked top class when he won the Canadian International in September 2002, his first start after being privately purchased and shipped out of Ireland. But besides the brief glimmer last summer, Ballingarry has disappointed.
MIAMI, Fla. - What a difference a day makes. Twenty-four hours after watching his 1-5 favorite B B Best finish a frustrating fourth in the Criterium Stakes, trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. was all smiles again while posing in the winner's circle following Unbridels King one length victory in Sunday's $100,000 Mecke Handicap.
Steady showers which began two hours prior to the Mecke softened the turf course, especially around the second turn, and resulted in four late scratches from the original 12 horse field including highweight and likely favorite Mr. Livingston.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - Jockey Chuckie Lopez went to the video tape to help La Reason score the upset Sunday afternoon in the Grade 2 $300,000 Molly Pitcher Breeders' Cup Handicap for fillies and mares at Monmouth Park.
La Reason ($47.40) ran the 1 1-8 miles in 1:51.10 over the fast track.
Lopez had never ridden the 4-year-old mare so trainer David Vance provided a tape of her recent races,
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Rare Cure outgamed 2-5 favorite Pie N Burger for a neck win in the $75,000 Bob Johnson Memorial at Lone Star Park on Saturday night. It was another half-length back in third to Lights on Broadway.
Rare Cure ($21) settled in fifth in the one-mile race, as Won CC, Guaranteed Sweep and Pie N Burger dueled together through fractions of 24.03 seconds for the opening quarter and 47.45 seconds for the half-mile mark. Rare Cure launched his bid on the second turn and rallied through the stretch, covering the distance in 1:36.18.
PLEASANTON, Calif. - Timeintown ($6.60) improved her record to 2-for-2, scoring a gate-to-wire victory in the $47,450 Juan Gonzalez Memorial Stakes at the Alameda County Fair on Saturday.
Timeintown, slightly favored over Kelly's Princess in the wagering, easily made the lead, holding a head advantage over stablemate Lady Siphonica around the turn of the five-furlong race for 2-year-old fillies. She opened in the lane to defeat Kelly's Princess by 3 1/2 lengths, winning in 57.17 seconds.
