OCEANPORT, N.J. - Joe Bravo felt he was little unlucky with Big Blue Kitten in the Grade 2 Monmouth Stakes last month, shaking clear a tad too late to catch Boisterous.

This time Big Blue Kitten got the big prize, the Grade 1, $525,000 United Nations Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth Park.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Raging Daoust edged Big Sur by a nose in a battle of longshots in the Grade 3, $157,500 Salvator Mile on Saturday at Monmouth Park.

Raging Daoust paid $69 for the upset victory, giving Buddy Carlesimo one of the biggest wins in his career.

MIAMI - Starship Truffles proved that Grade 1 winners can come from just about anywhere.

One week after winning a $6,250 starter allowance race, Starship Truffles dominated Grade 1 opposition, cruising to a 3 3/4-length victory over the unlucky Judy the Beauty in Saturday’s Princess Rooney Handicap at Calder Race Course.

The Princess Rooney shared top billing on Calder’s Summit of Speed program, which ran in direct conflict with an eight-race  card conducted just eight miles away at Gulfstream Park.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Saint Leon does not run frequently, but he is making the most of limited opportunities. The vintage 8-year-old turf sprinter won his fourth straight start Saturday at Arlington when he captured the $100,000 Arlington Sprint for the second year in a row, gamely holding off Hogy to win by a head.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Already proven in turf sprints, Schiaparelli showed on Saturday that she can stretch her speed to a mile with a victory in the $150,000 Royal Heroine Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Moreno shipped from California to New York primarily to be a workmate of another horse in the barn with stakes aspirations. As the Belmont Park meet nears its end, it is Moreno who turns out to be the star of trainer Eric Guillot’s stable.

Validating the front-running maiden victory he recorded here on Belmont Stakes Day, Moreno once gain used his speed to record a seven-length, front-running victory in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Dwyer Stakes at Belmont.

Broadway Empire romped by 7 1/4 lengths in the $50,000 Ky Alta at Northlands Park on Saturday.  Sent off as the heavy favorite in one-mile race for 3-year-olds that drew six horses, Broadway Empire paid $3.80

MIAMI - David Fawkes, who won the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Sprint with Big Drama, is well on his way to going back again after his Bahamian Squall rallied to a 1 3/4-length victory over reigning Sprint champion Trinniberg in the $350,000 Smile Handicap, the co-feature on Saturday’s rich Summit of Speed program at Calder.  

The Grade 2 Smile is a Win and You’re In event for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. Bahamian Squall’s victory was Fawkes’s third in the Smile, following  Big Drama during the summer of his championship season and Forty One Carats 10 years earlier.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Even though his horse was the 7-5 second choice in the race, trainer Chad Brown knew the only real chance his Last Gunfighter had to win Saturday’s Grade 2 Suburban was if the multiple Grade 1 winner Flat Out was off his game.Looking at Flat Out in the Belmont Park paddock before the race, Brown didn’t see anything amiss with the favorite.

My Perfect Ten made her first start for trainer Steve Lyster a memorable one Saturday, rolling to an easy triumph at 8-1 in the $50,000 Ellis Park Turf Stakes in Henderson, Ky.

With Roberto Morales aboard, My Perfect Ten quickly drew off in the final furlong of the 1 1/16-mile race to finish 3 1/4 lengths ahead of another 8-1 shot, Run a Risk. Soft Whisper was just a head back in third as the 8-5 favorite.