ALBANY, Calif. - If Sanibel Sunset, the likely favorite in Wednesday's Golden Gate Fields feature race, were in another barn, she might have run in Saturday's $75,000 California Oaks.

She hadn't run badly when a troubled third to Oaks favorite Lucky Sabre two races back. She rebounded from that loss to win a $40,000 starter allowance race at a mile in her next start. On Wednesday, she meets four rival 3-year-old fillies in a $25,000 optional claimer at a mile.

Patience is a way of life in Art Sherman's barn.

* Believe Im Special ($8.60) overtook pacesetter Fine Story late for a neck win in the $50,000 Cajun Express for statebreds Sunday night at Delta Downs in Vinton, La.

The Deputy Is Home ($9.40) needed just about the entire length of Laurel Park's stretch to finally catch front-running Sassy Hound.

The Deputy Is Home ran down Sassy Hound and earned a half-length victory in the $60,000 Endless Surprise Stakes.

The Deputy Is Home completed six furlongs in 1:08.97 to win his first stakes race.

At the sixteenth pole it looked like Snake Mountain ($3) wouldn't get there in time, but he dug in tenaciously to win Sunday's $80,975 Stymie by a nose over Classic Endeavor.

It was Snake Mountain's fifth consecutive win and his fourth in an Aqueduct stakes race.

OCALA, Fla. - Edgar Prado rode three of the four winners of the OBS Championship Stakes series on Monday's all-stakes program at the Ocala Training Center.

Prado's streak began in the $50,000 OBS Sprint for 3 year-old fillies at six furlongs when he guided Shot Gun Favorite to a neck victory over the pace-making Hope for Love.

The second race, the $50,000 OBS Sprint for 3-year-old males at six furlongs, was won by last year's Sapling Stakes winner, Valid Video. With Prado aboard, he pulled away to a 3 1/2-length victory.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - While Dynamite Miss has been quite impressive in her last two starts, trainer Frank Alexander knew she would have been overmatched against Gold Mover and Harmony Lodge in Sunday's Hurricane Bertie Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Alexander may have found an easier spot for Dynamite Miss in Wednesday's $40,000 third-level allowance race at Gulfstream, but his filly stands to be tested nonetheless against returning stakes winners French Satin and Sixtyone Margaux.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Dynever, one of the most talked about 3-year-old maiden winners in the country this winter, will waste little time getting tested for class when he makes his next start in the $250,000 Aventura Stakes at Gulfstream Park on April 5.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Hombre Rapido has turned in two spectacular efforts this winter, and his trainer, John Sadler, believes the lightly raced 6-year-old gelding can continue to bang out big races as long as they are well spaced, and at six furlongs or less.

Sadler will put that theory to the test Wednesday, when Hombre Rapido goes for his third straight victory in Santa Anita's featured seventh race, a $65,000 classified allowance race at six furlongs. It will be his first start since he led from start to finish in a third-level allowance race on Jan. 12.

ARCADIA, Calif. - For the past several months, Gary Stevens was working alongside producer Frank Marshall and director Gary Ross on the movie "Seabiscuit." Stevens has gone back to his day job, riding horses, and on Sunday found himself in the position of spoiling the Hollywood ending for Marshall and Ross in the San Felipe Stakes.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The remarkable Santa Anita meeting of trainer Jeff Mullins hit its highest point on Sunday when his Buddy Gil upset such highly regarded Kentucky Derby prospects as Atswhatimtalknbout, Domestic Dispute, and Man Among Men in the $250,000 .

Buddy Gil, sent off at 9-1, bulled his way between horses in the final furlong and just did outlast the fast-finishing Atswhatimtalknbout to win by a nose under jockey Gary Stevens. Brancusi, a 48-1 shot who was coming off a victory against maidens, was third, another three-quarters of a length behind.