SAN MATEO, Calif. - Ninebanks and Trapper won top honors for the 2003 Bay Meadows racing season that ended Sunday.

Ninebanks was voted Horse of the Meeting, top older horse and top turf horse. He won the Grade 2 San Francisco Breeders' Cup Handicap during the sprint meeting and the California Turf Championship during the fall meet. The 6-year-old gelding, owned by Peter Abruzzo and trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, also ran second in the Foster City and Pacifica handicaps and was third in the Bay Meadows Breeders' Cup Handicap.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Very Vegas ($5.40) led every step of the way as she captured the $60,850 Bay Meadows Lassie at Bay Meadows on Sunday.

After veering out at the start, Very Vegas assumed command in front of Secret Courier, who ran second all the way. Secret Courier sat less than two lengths off Very Vegas most of the way. Very Vegas expanded the margin to two into the lane, and Secret Courier launched a good rally but fell a neck short in the one-mile race. Very Vegas, making her first start around two turns, clocked 1:37.35 for the victory.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Favored Willow Bunch ($4.40) loved the sloppy going and posted an easy victory in the $171,300 Jammed Lovely Stakes, a seven-furlong dash for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies at Woodbine Sunday.

Willow Bunch pressed the pace while three-wide under Patrick Husbands, and took control from Miss Crissy at the quarter pole, after fractions of 22.46 and :45.76. She drew off in the stretch, and won by five and three-quarter lengths over a closing Kabul, who ended a half-length in front of third-place finisher Deputy Cures Blues. The final time was 1:25.02.

Canyon de Oro rallied for a two-length win over Ww Robin de Hood in the $30,000 Woodlands Handicap at The Woodlands in Kansas City, Kan., on Saturday. It was another three and a half lengths back in third to Morning Merry, while favorite Patton's Victory finished fifth after setting the pace into the stretch. The race was the closing day feature at The Woodlands.

Canyon de Oro ($11.40) covered the mile and a sixteenth in 1:43.20. Gary Kurek rode the winner for trainer Leroy Hellman.

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. - Trainer Janet VanBebber and jockey Alvin "Bubba" Brossette scored their third straight wins in the Grade 1, $300,000 when Panther Mountain upset even-money favorite Catchmeinyourdreams on Saturday night at Los Alamitos.

The 440-yard Challenge Championship was the headliner on a 13-race program that featured five Grade 1 stakes.

Guy Weimer's PantherMountain, at 20-1, held off Kirk Goodfellow's Catchmeinyourdreams by a neck to get the win in a sharp 21.457 seconds, the second-fastest time in the stake's 11 runnings.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Stanley Park ($16.80) sat well back in the field, moved four wide on the second turn and unleashed a strong stretch run to win the $100,000 Grade 3 at Bay Meadows on Saturday.

Stanley Park drew even with favored Bis Repetitas early in the stretch but pulled away effortlessly to win the 1 1/8-mile turf race by 2 1/2 lengths winning in 1:48.97. Kewen finished third.

"This was our objective since Del Mar," winning trainer John Shirreffs said.

The colt was third in one division of the Oceanside Handicap but was sixth in the Grade 3 La Jolla.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Rush Into Heaven avoided the traffic that plagued several rivals to score his first stakes win in Saturday's $78,300 Pinjara Stakes at Santa Anita.

Ridden by Iggy Puglisi, Rush Into Heaven ($20.40) rallied wide to win by a nose over Lucky Pulpit, who was stuck in traffic in mid-stretch. Mister Bere, the 3-1 favorite, rallied from ninth to finish third in the field of 10 2-year-olds. Mister Bere was held up at the eighth pole, but made up ground once clear in the final furlong.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Eighty-two minutes before the running of the 2002 at Aqueduct, a then 3-year-old gelding named Better Talk Now won a second-level allowance race at Aqueduct. His final time for the nine furlongs on turf was 0.46 seconds faster than Dawn of the Condor's clocking for the Knickerbocker.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Cherishing Duke and Ionix, the top two finishers in a race here on opening day, will have a rematch in Monday's six-furlong feature for $5,000 fillies and mares.

Cherishing Duke proved best by three-quarters of a length on opening day, when she came from just off the pace to prevail in a 5 1/2-furlong race in 1:08.01. It was the third win from 11 starts for Cherishing Duke, a 4-year-old daughter of Go for Gin from the barn of trainer Debbie Van Horne. Jose Rivera Jr. had the mount on opening day and will ride again Monday at 121 pounds.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Trainer Shug McGaughey never has to be in a hurry when it comes to training horses for owner Emory Hamilton. The fact La Reina is ready to make her stakes debut in Tuesday's Grade 3, $100,000 Tempted Stakes says a lot about the quality of the 2-year-old filly.

"[Hamilton] would rather she be a good 4-year-old than a good 2-year-old," McGaughey said of La Reina.