INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Irguns Angel wore down pacesetting Secret Liaison in the final yards at Hollywood Park on Sunday to capture the $200,000 and earn her third straight victory since returning from ankle surgery.
Irguns Angel was off for eight months before returning to action on May 2. She won two straight against softer company in preparation for the A Gleam, a seven-furlong, Grade 2 race for older female sprinters.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Trainer Steve Asmussen swept both closing day stakes at Lone Star Park on Sunday, and overall won seven races on the 14-race card to shatter the track record for trainer wins on a program.
Asmussen also came within one win of tying the North American trainer mark for wins on a card, eight, which was set by J.C. Williams at Waterford Park in West Virginia in 1979.
The previous Lone Star record for trainer wins on a card was four, which was shared by Asmussen and Cole Norman.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Steve Asmussen won seven races on the 14-race closing day card at Lone Star Park on Sunday to come within one win of tying the North American mark for trainer wins on a program.
J.C. Williams set the national record in 1979 when he won eight races on a card at Waterford Park in West Virginia.
Asmussen's seven wins Sunday set a Lone Star record. The previous record for trainer wins on a program was four, which was shared by Asmussen and Cole Norman.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - From longshots to logical contenders, Sky Jack fought off all challengers to win Sunday's $750,000 at Hollywood Park.
Through an exciting stretch duel, Sky Jack prevailed by a nose over Momentum, after fighting off an early threat from 30-1 Macaneo. Momentum finished three lengths in front of Milwaukee Brew, the 7-5 favorite who won the Santa Anita Handicap earlier this year.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Came Home surpassed $1 million in earnings and won his fifth stakes of 2002 in Sunday's $500,000 , a performance that left new jockey Mike Smith wondering what the colt could have done if he had concentrated.
"He was looking around a lot more than I remember him doing," Smith said. Smith rode Came Home for the first time in the Grade 2 Swaps, replacing the retired Chris McCarron.
Sent off as the 1-2 favorite, Came Home led through fractions of 23.51 and 47.06 seconds and was never threatened, winning by 1 1-4 lengths over Like a Hero.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - Summer Swing closed from far back off a rapid pace and stormed by the leaders in mid-stretch to win the $50,000 Bernie Dowd Handicap for 3-year-olds and up at Monmouth Sunday.
Sheryar Special set the quick early fractions of 21.64, 44.27 while H.M.S. Jackson and Spectacular Slew sat off the pacesetter. Turning for home, jockey Eddie King darted Summer Swing off the rail and to the outside, and he came six-wide down the stretch to draw off for a 2 1/2-length victory.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Rights Reserved won his maiden in a lucrative way at Woodbine Sunday, taking the $133,625 Colin Stakes for 2-year-olds under Robert Landry.
It was the first stakes victory for trainer Gail Casselman, who owns Rights Reserved in partnership with John Mitchell.
"He's been a little fractions at the gate," said Landry, "and Gail's been doing a lot of work with him. He got away well, and had a good trip."
VALLEJO, Calif. - Odds-on favorite Channing Way battled Hadl while setting speedy fractions and outlasted her rival by a neck to win the $50,770 Vacaville Handicap on Saturday at the Solano County Fair.
The two battled through fractions of 21.10, 43.88 and 55.97 before Channing Way scored her first victory of the year and seventh win in 11 starts. Her winning time in the six-furlong race for older fillies and mares was 1:09.38. Late-running Fancee Bargain was third, a neck behind Hadl.
INGLEWOOD, Calif.-There is a pick six carryover of $171,548 for Sunday's program at Hollywood Park after favorites failed to win any of the pick six races on Saturday.
Sunday's 10-race program includes the $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup, the richest race of the meeting, and a $1 million guaranteed pick six pool, which should be easily reached with the additional lure of the carryover.
The winners of Saturday's pick six races were Osho ($22.80), Real Paranoide ($28.60), Golden Hare ($13.40), Symph ($10.80), Honesty Darling ($15.60) and Suave Meteorite ($7.40).
