Syncline, checked and steadied while bottled up down the backstretch, came through along the inside turning for home and won the $100,000 Sussex Handicap at Delaware Park.
Syncline, ridden by Brent Bartram, won the 1 1/16-mile turf race by a nose over Dr. Kashnikow, with Sardaukar another half-length back in third. Mus-If, the 2-1 favorite, finished sixth in the field of seven.
Trained by Jonathan Sheppard, Syncline paid $24.40 to win. He ran the distance in 1:42.17.
Cellars Shiraz, sent off at 2-5, gave her backers some anxious moments when stumbled at the start of the $50,000 Convenience Stakes at Calder. But under Cornelio Velasquez, Cellars Shiraz gathered herself to stalk the pace, took the lead on the far turn, and won the 1 1/16-mile turf race by 1 1/2 lengths.
Company B finished second in the field of eight 3-year-old fillies, with Cagey Move third.
Cellars Shiraz, trained by Bill Cesare, completed the distance in 1:42.79 and paid $2.80.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - Forever Partners stamped herself as a 2-year-old filly to be reckoned with down the road in the $50,000 Colleen Stakes at Monmouth Saturday, winning by 11.
Forever Partners, a New Jersey-bred trained by Anthony Dutrow, broke well under Chuck Lopez and raced four wide through the early part of the 5 1/2-furlong race before taking the lead at the half-mile pole. She raced four lengths clear of the field turning for home and cruised home.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Lord Shogun rides a four-race win streak into Monday's $100,000 Manitoba Derby and will be the one to beat in the 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds at Assiniboia Downs.
The Manitoba Derby, a Grade 3 race, is the highlight of the biggest day of the meeting.
Monday's card also features the $30,000 Wheat City and Jack Hardy and the $40,000 Winnipeg Futurity.
EDMONTON, Alberta - Sixthirtyjoe spots his archrival, Timely Ruckus, six pounds as he seeks his sixth stakes victory of the year in Monday's $50,000 Northlands Sun Sprint Championship.
Owned, trained, and bred by Deanne Davies, Sixthirtyjoe will carry 124 pounds, two more than he packed in the 1 1/16-mile Klondike just nine days ago. Monday's race is at 6 1/2 furlongs, same distance as the Journal, which Sixthirtyjoe won earlier in the meet.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Ginger Gold and Silver Nithi, the winners of the first two jewels of the Canadian triple tiara, clash Monday in the final leg of the series, the $250,000 Wonder Where Stakes, a 1 1/4-mile turf race.
Monday's Woodbine card also features the Victoriana Stakes and a simulcast of the Manitoba Derby from Assiniboia Downs.
Ginger Gold, last year's Canadian champion
2-year-old filly, won the June 8 Labatt Woodbine Oaks with determination. She dueled through rapid fractions in the 1 1/8-mile Oaks, and held off a closing Silver Nithi.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - B.C. Cup Day, featuring eight races restricted to B.C.-breds, seven of them stakes, is scheduled for this Monday afternoon at Hastings with the first post set for 2:23 pm.
Clearly the highlight of the day will be the match-up between Lord Nelson and Kid Katabatic in the $65,000 B.C. Cup Classic. The six other added money races are worth $50,000 each.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - One of the reasons Kid Katabatic is still competitive in stakes company as a 9-year-old is the way he's been handled by his owner-trainer Shauna Ferguson. As she puts it, she's babied him throughout his career. The Kid has started only 37 times and any time that he showed any signs of wear and tear, Ferguson would stop on him. Given his advanced age, and the way Ferguson treats him, it's very possible that this Monday's B.C. Cup Classic could be his last race.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Slowly but surely, the prospective field for Monday's Victoriana Stakes diminished this week.
First it was Nymphenburg, the defending champion in the race, who was forced into retirement by injury.
Then Devastating, a multiple stakes winner, was taken out of consideration and pointed toward Saratoga's upcoming Ballerina.
Finally, Classic Ingrid, a stakes-placed filly in good form, suffered an untimely physical setback.
Boots On Sunday dug down deep and held off Ski Bum by a neck to win his second straight $30,000 J.R. Straus Memorial on Friday at Retama Park before an opening night crowd of 4,569.
It was another length back in third to Two Punch Sonny.
Boots On Sunday broke well as the 3-5 favorite, and dueled with Wild Axe through an opening quarter in 22.24 seconds. He took command of the race soon afterward, and was game in deep stretch when challenged first by Two Punch Sonny on his outside, then by Ski Bum to his inside.