ALTOONA, Iowa - Two-time defending Iowa-bred Horse of the Year Sure Shot Biscuit proved his mettle against open company once again as he turned back several challengers and held sway for a half-length score over Battle Mountain in the $75,000 Precisionist Handicap at Prairie Meadows.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Nasty Storm gamely held off heavily favored Love at Noon to win the $109,700 Dogwood Stakes, reversing the form that took her to a 13th-place finish in the Kentucky Oaks three weeks earlier.

Always prominent from the start of the 1 1/16-mile, Grade 3 Dogwood, Nasty Storm overtook Happily Unbridled, then held off Love at Noon to win by a neck. Golly Greeley finished third, another 3 1/2 lengths back.

Nasty Storm, trained by Dallas Stewart, returned $13.80 to win as third choice in a field of seven 3-year-old fillies.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Two months after he won the world's richest sprint - the $2 million Golden Shaheen in Dubai, Caller One took quite a pay cut when he won the $107,300 Los Angeles Handicap at Hollywood Park on Sunday.

But his victory against five others emphasized his status as a leading contender for Kona Gold's title of champion sprinter.

MIAMI - Platinum Tiara got all the attention coming into the $150,000 Calder Breeders' Cup Handicap, but trainer Joe Waunsch warned everybody not to forget his other horse in the race, the older and more experienced Silver Bandana.

Waunsch proved prophetic when Silver Bandana upset her more publicized stablemate, rallying to a one-length victory under a rail-skimming ride by Rene Douglas.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Keeping Happyanunoit in training for another year seems to have turned out to be a brilliant decision. Making her first start as a 6-year-old, Happyanunoit won the $221,350 Gamely Breeders' Cup Handicap at Hollywood Park on Saturday, her first start since finishing third in the Matriarch Stakes last November.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - While the races for the leading jockey and trainer at Hastings Park will be hotly contested all year, it looks like a walkover for the leading apprentice rider as Mario Velazquez is the only bugboy currently riding at the Vancouver ova.l.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Winning a Queen's Plate had been a recurring dream for the father-and-son team of owners Frank DiGiulio Sr. and Frank DiGiulio Jr., longtime players in the local racing game.

But last Saturday DiGiulio Sr. died at home at age 91, leaving his son to cheer on Win City in his quest for the $1 million Queen's Plate here June 24.

"The fact that this horse acts like a legitimate contender, and he won't be here to see it, is very saddening for us," said Bob Tiller, who has trained for the senior DiGiulio since he became an owner in 1981.

ETOBICOKE, ONTARIO - Geraint, unbeaten in two stakes preps this year, should be favored when he ascends to stakes company Wednesday at Woodbine in the $110,200 Steady Growth for Ontario-sired runners.

Geraint has already banked $84,660 this year while winning the allowance preps for the Vigil and Eclipse Handicaps. Trainer Catherine Day said she bypassed both of those races with Geraint in favor of the 1 1/16-mile Steady Growth.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - After riding three winners at

Churchill Downs Sunday, Pat Day is just one win away

from becoming just the third jockey in North American

racing history to hit the 8,000-win milestone.

Day is scheduled to have just one mount Monday:

Traditionally, the favorite in the Grade 1 Met Mile at

Belmont Park. Day's next scheduled day of action is

Thursday at Churchill.

After narrowly winning Sunday's eighth race aboard

odds-on favorite Buckle Down Ben ($3.80), Day finished

ELMONT, N.Y. - Monarchos, the Kentucky Derby winner, breezed a half-mile in 49.17 seconds Sunday morning over a sloppy, sealed Belmont main track in preparation for the June 9 Belmont Stakes. The move was done around a single set of dogs, or cones, used to protect the inside part of the track.