OPELOUSAS, La. – Miss Addison picked up her first stakes win in Saturday night’s $50,000 Matron at Evangeline Downs. Pacesetter and favorite Little Polka Dot finished 1 1/2 lengths back in second, followed by Burning Creole.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Uncaptured, Canada’s champion 2-year-old male and horse of the year for 2012, is scheduled to van up from Churchill Downs on Wednesday and will continue his preparations here for Fort Erie’s Prince of Wales Stakes.

The $500,000 Prince of Wales, the 1 3/16-mile dirt race that is the second leg of the Triple Crown for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds, will be run July 30.

ALTOONA, Iowa – Smack Smack exhibited a potent turn of foot to mow down five rivals and pull away late for a three-length tally in Saturday's $75,000 Prairie Gold Juvenile.

Dawdling a bit through an opening quarter-mile after which he was eight lengths behind the pacesetting Bad Boy Peter, jockey Jake Barton gave Smack Smack a few taps of the whip, and the Don Von Hemel-trained Closing Argument gelding responded.

Marks Mine, a 3-year-old filly meeting older for the first time, stalked a fast pace and dominated in the lane to win Saturday's $75,700 California State Fair Sprint Handicap at Sacramento.

Marks Mine ($7.20) settled nicely under jockey Frank Alvarado as Fightin Mean Mad cut out an extremely fast pace. She was third, 1 1/2 lengths behind the leader, through a 21.43-second opening quarter.

Marks Mine was still 1 1/2 lengths back at the quarter pole but second as Distinctive Yolie began to give was after a 43.57 opening half.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Last of nine on the first turn, Jeranimo trailed by 15 lengths in the first half-mile of Saturday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Eddie Read Stakes at Del Mar, a position that was little concern to co-owner B.J. Wright.

As Fed Biz and Slim Shadey set quick fractions of 23.22 and 46.23 seconds, Wright said he thought jockey Rafael Bejarano had made the right decision to keep Jeranimo well off the pace.

“I thought he’d win,” Wright said.

Sister Ginger took advantage of a perfect trip under Ricardo Santana Jr. to win the $125,000 Indiana Grand at Indiana Downs on Saturday evening.

Trained by Steve Asmussen, Sister Ginger ($5) saved ground to the far turn while in behind the dueling leaders over a soft turf course. Midway around the turn, Santana took his mount off the rail  to split horses and Sister Ginger surged into the stretch to draw clear late to win by 1 1/2 lengths. Longshot Miss Scout closed for second, a neck in front of pacesetting Finding More ,who tired to wind up third.

Wicked Courage won his ninth consecutive race in the Grade 1, $1,054,992 Rainbow Derby for Quarter Horses at Ruidoso Downs on Saturday, and the outcome was never in doubt. In a powerful display of talent, he pulled away late for a one-length win over Jjs Gone. It was another head back in third to Joker on Jack.

Wicked Courage ($3.60), who with the victory went past $1 million in earnings, has now won the first two legs of the meet’s Grade 1 derby series. Back in June, he accounted for the $823,000 Ruidoso Derby. The final leg, the $2.8 million All American Derby, is Sept. 1.

DEL MAR, Calif. - From Florida by way of Indiana, Closing Range found her way to the winner’s circle of  the $102,550 Osunitas Stakes at Del Mar on Saturday, closing in the final sixteenth to catch 7-5 favorite Unusual Hottie in the last strides of the turf race.

Ridden by Corey Nakatani, Closing Range ($35.40) rallied from seventh in a field of 10 fillies and mares to win by a neck, finishing 1 1/16 miles in 1:41.44. Closing Range was fifth at the eighth pole, trailing then leader A Time to Love by three lengths.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Todd Pletcher had an embarrassment of riches with his 3-year-old fillies this year, but it was the diamond in the rough who has climbed to the top of the division.

Confirming her 38-1 upset victory in the Kentucky Oaks 11 weeks ago, Princess of Sylmar cemented her status as the leader of the division with an authoritative six-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Hard Enough pulled a 12-1 upset in the $63,000 Jersey Derby for 3-year-olds on the turf at Monmouth Park on Saturday.

A $50,000 claim at Gulfstream Park over the winter, Hard Enough earned his second win since joining the Bobby Dibona barn.

“This is the best horse in my barn right now,” Dibona said. “It’s been a while since we had a horse of this caliber so we’re all very excited.”

Hard Enough had been running primarily in first-level allowance races, usually against older rivals. The Jersey Derby was an opportunity to face his own age group.