Champali edged clear in the final strides to win the $50,000 Turfway Prevue Stakes for 3-year-olds by a nose over the previously unbeaten Great Notion. Ridden by James Lopez, Champali pressured Great Notion from the outset and gradually worked his way past in the stretch. He ran 6 1/2 furlongs in the mud in 1:17.53 and paid $4.60.
Champali is 4-0-0 in five starts and has earned $155,874.
ALBANY, Calif. - Apprentice jockey Belen Quinonez knows his way around a racetrack.
Quinonez, 23, is now starting to learn his way around northern California.
Quinonez picked up his first victory at Golden Gate Fields on Saturday with a patient, ground-saving trip aboard Repayma in a $12,500 claimer at one mile.
"That was really nice," said Quinonez, who finished ninth in the standings at Remington Park with 26 victories before heading west.
The victory came in his ninth ride here.
"I didn't come here and expect to win, win, win," Quinonez said.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Victories in maiden races over the weekend left the trainers of Atswhatimtalknbout and Ten Most Wanted dreaming of more significant races in coming months.
Both lightly raced colts won as favorites - Atswhatimtalknbout in a six-furlong sprint on Saturday and Ten Most Wanted in a one-mile race on Sunday.
The rally that carried Atswhatimtalknbout from 10th to the front in the final quarter-mile is hopefully a preview of what's to come for the colt, owned by B. Wayne Hughes and trained by Ron Ellis.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - A little more than three years after training champion sprinter Artax, and 14 months after taking what he thought was "a chance of a lifetime," Louis Albertrani is starting over again.
Albertrani, 45, has a four-horse stable based at Belmont Park, with a couple of claiming horses and a pair of New York-bred maiden 3-year-olds. Wise N Valid, a 3-year-old daughter of Valid Expectations, makes her second start for Albertrani in Wednesday's fourth race at Aqueduct, a maiden $50,000 claiming race.
ALBANY, Calif. - Bob's Lady ($5.60) got a dream trip sitting last behind a brisk early pace before rallying in the lane and pulling away to win the $100,000 Work The Crowd Handicap at Golden Gate Fields on Sunday.
Demo Memo raced to the front entering the first turn as favored Brite Sunny Day conceded the lead to her in the one-mile race for Cal-bred fillies and mares.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Atlantic Ocean scored her third career stakes win in Sunday's $110,900 at Santa Anita, beating a field that lacked any other graded stakes winners.
Sent off as the favorite in a field of six 3-year-old fillies, Atlantic Ocean overcome trouble on the first turn to reach a stalking position on the backstretch behind pacesetter Harbor Blues. On the final turn, Atlantic Ocean rallied three-wide to challenge Harbor Blues, took the lead in the final furlong and held off the late challenge of Sea Jewel and Summer Wind Dancer through the stretch.
NEW ORLEANS - Usually the Fair Grounds turf course is no place for a speed horse, but Royal Spy didn't have a problem with it, leading for much of the way Sunday in the Colonel E.R. Bradley Handicap.
Second around the clubhouse turn, Royal Spy and Robby Albarado took the lead on the backstretch and never lost it, finishing strongly after a soft pace to score a one-length win.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - San Dare, last at the top of the stretch, finished full of run on the extreme outside then outgamed Calista to post a head victory in Sunday's $100,000 . Amonita, the 7-5 favorite in a field of 10 filly and mare turf specialists, finished a tiring sixth after reaching the lead in early stretch.
San Dare became the fifth straight double digit stakes winner since the meet began on Friday, returning $25.20 after covering 1 1/16 miles over a firm turf course in 1:46.19 under Mark Guidry.
Term Sheet, who seems to be getting better with age, picked up his first stakes win Saturday night when he drew clear by three lengths over Agrivating General in the $50,000 Sprint Handicap at Sam Houston Race Park in Houston.
It was another length and a quarter back in third to Padlock.
Mighty Merlin overtook 3-5 favorite Slam Bam by a neck at the wire to win the $40,000 Triple Sec for 3-year-olds Saturday night at Delta Downs in Vinton, La. It was another length and three-quarters back in third to Amplitude.
Mighty Merlin($12.40) settled in fifth early in the five furlong race while Slam Bam set fractions of 21.66 seconds for the opening quarter and 46.15 for the half-mile mark. Slam Bam appeared clear in the stretch, but Mighty Merlin closed with a rush to cover the distance over a fast track in 59.20 seconds.
