Sunland Park, N. M. - William Clifton Jr.'s favored Premeditation won his first start as a four-year-old in Saturday's $50,000-added Winsham Lad Handicap after dueling longshot Leloup through the stretch and taking a narrow advantage at the wire. Premediation ran the two-turn mile in 1:35.80, fastest of the meet, while toting co-highweight of 122 pounds.

OLDSMAR Fla. - When Derek Bell rallied Nick's Noactor down the middle of the course to take Friday's feature at Tampa Bay Downs, it gave the rider at least one winner on six of the last seven racing days. While not a dazzling statistic, it is one that will surely catch the attention of trainers, and could result in Bell getting a wider choice of mounts.

Ryan Folgelsonger, an Eclipse Award nominee for top apprentice jockey, gave one of the best rides of his young career on P Day, waiting for room in upper stretch and then accelerating at just the right moment to win the $75,000 Native Dancer.

P Day and Full Brush were fourth and fifth and behind horses at the top of the stretch when both shot toward an opening between front-runners Paynes Bay and Hay Getoutofmyway. Both P Day and Full Brush got through, and they battled nostril to nostril to the wire. P Day inched in front a few yards from the finish to win by a head.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - After breaking slowly and going wide into the first turn, Zonk overpowered her six rivals to win the Grade 3, $109,600 Affectionately Handicap by four lengths before 7,471 at chilly Aqueduct.

Wishful Splendor rallied from last to get second by a neck over Kiss a Miss. Shop Till You Drop, Pocus Hocus, Persky, and With Ability completed the order of finish.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Tates Creek earned a winter vacation after extending her stakes winning streak to three in Saturday's $150,000, Grade 2 at Santa Anita.

Trainer Bobby Frankel said the 5-year-old Tates Creek will be pointed to the major stakes of the Hollywood Park spring-summer meeting, which begins April 23. "I'll back off a little and get her ready for Hollywood," Frankel said. "I want to try to give her a Grade 1 win."

NEW ORLEANS - In June, Spectacular Dove couldn't win a conditioned claiming race at Colonial Downs, but Monday at Fair Grounds she will start as a solid favorite in a third-level turf allowance with a $75,000 claiming option. The turnaround coincided with Spectacular Dove's move to trainer Tom Amoss's barn, and she enters Monday's race on a three-race win streak.

NEW ORLEANS - Prince Alphie has spent most of his short racing career in Canada, but on Saturday in the Black Gold Handicap at Fair Grounds he did his best impression of a European racehorse. The Black Gold developed just like most turf races in Europe, slow early and fast late, and Prince Alphie had the best finish of all.

Third at the stretch call, Prince Alphie kicked into high gear a half-furlong from home under Shane Sellers and outsprinted Canaan Land and Oak Hill for a 1 1/4-length win.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - At virtually any other time in his 17-year training career, Mike Gorham would have found it easy to label Bruanna as his "big mare." After all, Bruanna has won three of four starts since Gorham claimed her last summer, including victories in two stakes.

But with Mandy's Gold in Gorham's 20-horse stable, there is no room atop the totem pole. Mandy's Gold was a primary reason that Gorham enjoyed the best year of his career in 2002, as she earned over $666,000 and won five stakes, highlighted by the Grade 1 Ruffian at Belmont Park.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Speed meets speed Sunday at Santa Anita, where 3-year-old sprinters gun six furlongs in the Grade 3 San Miguel Stakes. It's a hot race in which handicappers might anticipate a pace meltdown and support a stretch runner. There's just one question - is there a genuine closer in the six-horse field?

NEW ORLEANS - The two horses who won the first two sprint stakes of the Fair Grounds meet square off Sunday in the $75,000 Colonel Power Handicap. But they aren't the story. What's worth paying to see is whether or not Bonapaw, the best sprinter at Fair Grounds, will win a stakes race less than two weeks after returning from a month of farm rest.