SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Holiday Soiree returned quick dividends to her new connections when she rallied from off the pace to an impressive 3 3/4-length victory over Delightful Quality in Monday’s $100,000 Shine Again Stakes at Saratoga.

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Wise Dan, the reigning Horse of the Year, was assigned 129 pounds for Saturday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Fourstardave Handicap, the race he won last year to start his current seven-race winning streak.

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Four years ago, trainer Al Stall Jr.  sent out Blame to win the Curlin Stakes with a career-best performance, after which he skipped the temptation to run his rising star in the Travers.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Strut the Course ($6.70) notched her first stakes win with ease Monday at Woodbine in the $125,000 Eternal Search.

Strut the Course won from off the pace by 6 1/2 lengths over Seeking Toussaud. Dancing Bay wound up third, and the favored front-runner, Laughing Falcon, faded to fourth.

Todd Kabel rode the Barb Minshall-trained Strut the Course, who completed the 1 1/16 miles in 1:44.67.

“I expected a big race from her today, and she showed up,” Minshall said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Paso Doble ($4.90) danced his way into the winner’s circle as the 124-pound highweight in the $125,400 Shepperton Stakes on holiday Monday at Woodbine.

The pace was slow in the 6 1/2-furlong sprint, and second choice Phil’s Dream assumed command into the stretch after tracking the early leader, Executive Five. Paso Doble rallied wide from midpack to hit the front at the sixteenth pole en route to a 1 1/2-length score in 1:16.39.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Evidently, Steve Asmussen didn’t empty out his chamber when he won 35 races at the Churchill Downs spring meet, including 11 with his 2-year-old crop.

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DEL MAR, Calif. – It is tough enough at Del Mar lately to pick one winner at a time. String together six winners? Good luck with that.

The fourth carryover in six days is up for grabs Wednesday when a $265,129 carryover is likely to attract another $1.5 million. The man in the spotlight is trainer Doug O’Neill, with two promising juvenile fillies among his entrants in four of the pick-six races.

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Charm the Maker has had a steady diet of stakes racing since her win against maidens here in the summer of 2011, so the class relief she gets in Wednesday’s sixth race could prove beneficial.

Charm the Maker, freshened since February, returns in a second-level allowance and turns back to a six-furlong sprint on Polytrack, the distance and surface over which she won her debut two summers ago.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Two things come immediately to mind when cracking open the past performances for Wednesday’s $100,000 New York Stallion Series Stakes at Saratoga.

First, West Hills Giant looks like the one to beat returning to the grass off a third-place finish in the New York Derby at Finger Lakes, and second, what is a Louisiana-bred like Old Pal of Mine doing in the restricted race?

DEL MAR, Calif. – Pick six carryovers have translated into box office success for Del Mar, whose handle figures are continuing to increase as the meet progresses, with overall handle now up 11 percent through Sunday, encompassing the first three weeks of the meet.

A two-day pick six carryover going into Saturday’s races spurred more than $2.4 million in fresh money that day alone in the pick six, and helped contribute to an overall handle average of $12,968,426 per day compared to $11,679,037 through the first 15 days last year, a gain of 11 percent.