HALLANDLAE BEACH, Fla. - Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide made a triumphant 2004 debut and notched his first victory since the Preakness Stakes when drawing off to an easy five-length victory over four overmatched rivals in Saturday's at Gulfstream Park.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Live racing returns to Portland Meadows on Monday, following the cancellation of three programs due to wintry weather.

Monday's headliner, a nonwinners-of-three allowance for older fillies and mares at six furlongs, has a field of eight.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Wynn Dot Comma showed a new dimension in Saturday's at Gulfstream Park, rallying from off the pace to a 1 1/4-length victory over runner-up Saratoga County in the Grade 3 sprint for 3-year-olds.

Wynn Dot Comma had raced on or with the pace in each of his five previous starts. But with jockey Joe Bravo aboard for the first time, Wynn Dot Comma rated off a contested pace, swung wide after Smokume bore out into the stretch, then finished full of run once leveling off to wear down the leaders and win going away.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Megahertz won the eighth stakes of her career in Saturday's $147,000 at Santa Anita, giving Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel his 100th career stakes win at the track's winter-spring meeting and his seventh victory in the San Gorgonio, a turf stakes for fillies and mares.

Ridden by Alex Solis, Megahertz ($3.20) rallied from last in a field of four to win by a length over pacesetter Garden in the Rain. Megahertz finished 1 1/8 miles on turf in 1:49.51.

ALBANY, Calif. - Even-money favorite Skipaslew ($4) scored his second straight stakes victory and won his first graded race, capturing the $100,000 Grade 3 Golden Gate Derby at Golden Gate Fields.

"We're on the [Kentucky Derby] path," said Skipaslew's owner, Merv Griffin.

Skipaslew won by two lengths over O.K. Mikie, who edged Bensquito by a head for second. The winning time for the 1 1/16-mile race over a wet-fast track was 1:41.84.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - Wild Speed, under Derek Bell, stalked pacesetter Crafty Tears for more than a half-mile, passed her leaving the furlong marker, and won the $60,000 Sandpiper Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs by 2 1/4 lengths.

Owned by Victoria Farms Inc. and trained by Javier Contreras, Wild Speed won her third race from four career starts. She returned $14 and covered the six furlongs over a "good" strip in 1:11.93.

Weight has been blamed for the losses of many stakes horses, but it could not stop Saratoga Humor in the $50,000 Wishing Well Stakes at Turfway Park.

Carrying 122 pounds and picking up 12 pounds off a stakes victory in the New Year's Eve Handicap at Mountaineer, Saratoga Humor spotted her nine rivals six pounds apiece and won comfortably by 1 3/4 lengths over Emily Ring. Sent immediately to the front by leading rider Rafael Bejarano, she broke the hearts of her opponents by forcing them to chase a fast pace.

Fuse It held off favorite Prized Amberpro by three-quarters of length to win the $50,000 Camelia at Delta Downs in Vinton, La., on Friday night. It was another 5 1/2 lengths back to Light Fling in third.

Fuse It ($19.80) settled in fourth early in the 6 1/2-furlong race for statebred fillies and mares before overtaking the leaders through the stretch. She covered the distance, which was run over a muddy track, in 1:20.77.

NEW ORLEANS - Finally, things had gone the way trainer Gary Palmisano had mapped them out. Each fall, it seemed, he would enter Coach Rags in a prep race for the Louisiana Champions Day Turf, and like clockwork, the Fair Grounds grass course would come up wet the day of the prep. The race would be moved to dirt, Coach Rags would scratch, and he would go into the Turf without a race under a belt, exactly what Palmisano had tried to avoid.

NEW ORLEANS - Two months and two races ago Shiloh Bound was a maiden claimer. Now he is a stakes winner. Shiloh Bound went to the lead Saturday in the $60,000 Black Gold Handicap at Fair Grounds. Bachelor Blues, a graded stakes winner last summer, looked him in the eye and gained an advantage in midstretch, but Shiloh Bound battled on and won by a half-length.