INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Grade 1 winner Dublino returned from a six-month layoff and scored an emphatic victory in the Grade 3, $111,000 on Sunday at Hollywood Park. The 4-year-old filly won the mile turf race by two and a half lengths in a stakes-record 1:33.62 to reestablish herself as one of the top female turf runners in California.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The 7-year-old gelding General Challenge finished last in his comeback on Sunday, but 3-year-old upstart Chief Planner picked up the torch for owner-breeder Golden Eagle Farm by running away with the $250,000 Snow Chief Stakes on California Gold Rush Day at Hollywood Park.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Ninebanks ($11.20) got a dream trip and parlayed it into the biggest victory of his career, edging Nicobar by a nose to win the $177,500 Grade 2 on Saturday at Bay Meadows.

Ninebanks sat in third behind pacesetting I'madrifter and Bit Of Luck as he got a rail-skimming trip. He blew past I'madrifter into the lane as he came off the rail. Nicobar, who had tracked Ninebanks from the rail, followed him along the inside and stayed on the rail through the stretch run.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Saint Verre motored through the muck to win Saturday's $117,500 Fort Marcy Handicap at Aqueduct by 8 1/2 lengths over Windsor Castle.

The Fort Marcy, originally scheduled for the turf at 1 1/16 miles, was moved to the sloppy main track at a mile because of rain. Nine horses were scratched, leaving a field of eight.

The Fort Marcy's Grade 3 status was removed because of the surface switch and will be reviewed by the Graded Stakes Committee. The last time the Fort Marcy was run on the main track was in 1998, when Subordination won.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Cee's Elegance and Jetinto Houston dominated six rivals Saturday in the first of six California-bred stakes on California Gold Rush Day at Hollywood Park. Favored at 7-5 in the $150,000 B. Thoughtful Stakes, Cee's Elegance defeated Jetinto Houston by three-quarters of a length. It was 7 1/2 lengths back to Real Paranoide in third in the seven-furlong race, run in 1:21.70 over a track that played lightning-fast early in the card.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Bobby Frankel, Jerry Bailey and bridge-jumpers around the country got their Churchill Downs meet off to a good start Saturday as Midas Eyes rolled to a 2 1/2-length victory in the Grade 3, $167,400 .

Champali, the second choice in the race, ran a game second, finishing 13 1/4 lengths ahead of Desert Warrior. Minor Moss, Private Gold, and Unbridled America completed the order of finish.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Bluesthestandard, who a year ago was racing for a claiming price of $10,000, picked up his fifth straight win with authority Saturday in the Grade 3, $300,000 at Lone Star Park.

He finished four lengths in front of second-place finisher Bonapaw, who changed his running style and rallied from off the pace. It was another neck back in third to Compendium.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Playmera has racked up plenty of frequent-vanner miles during the last year, showing up at five different racetracks to make her last 10 starts. That's plenty of trips for a low-level allowance and starter allowance horse, but the trip Playmera really needs to avoid is a wide one on Monday at Hawthorne.

Playmera drew post 11 in the featured seventh race, which is for second-level filly and mare allowance sprinters. But if jockey Nick Meza can find a way to save ground, the prolific Playmera - with 13 career wins to her credit - can notch another victory.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Rene Douglas, Chicago knows. Wally Dollase, they're learning about fast.

Just two weeks after sending Ten Most Wanted to win the Illinois Derby here, the California-based trainer Dollase shipped in Bare Necessities for a convincing win Saturday in the Grade 3, $250,000 Sixty Sails Handicap.

Douglas, the reigning king of the Arlington jockey colony, was in town for the first time this year, and he gave Bare Necessities a perfect, ground-saving trip as she beat the 29-1 shot Jaramar Rain by 2 1/2 lengths.

Stormy Frolic was entered in Saturday's $150,000 Calder Breeders' Cup Handicap on the hope the race would come off the grass. After heavy rain forced management to move the Calder Breeders' Cup to the main track, Stormy Frolic made the most of her opportunity, sloshing to an easy 6 3/4-length victory over Win's Fair Lady and six other older fillies and mares.

"I was doing a rain dance all night," said Milt Wolfson, who trains Stormy Frolic for the Stride Rite Racing Stable. "She loves an off track."