INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens revised his career total of classic wins to nine with an upset victory on Oxbow in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on May 18. On Monday, Stevens, 50, won his first Grade 1 at Betfair Hollywood Park since 2004, as Marketing Mix prevailed by a head in a thrilling edition of the $250,500 Gamely Stakes for fillies and mares on turf.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – Master Rick keeps getting better. He won his third straight race Monday in the Grade 3, $300,000 Lone Star Park Handicap when he stepped outside his comfort zone and conquered 1 1/16 miles. The race was the richest of the meet at Lone Star Park.

The improving Summer Hit ($4.60) rated nicely on an uncontested lead and scored his first graded stakes victory Monday at Golden Gate Fields with an impressive score in the $100,000, Grade 2 All American Stakes.

The Bertrando gelding, who began his career by winning a $12,500 maiden claimer, had run second in the Grade 3 San Francisco Mile on the turf in his last start. He won the Silky Sullivan Stakes on the turf here last year.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. – Jockey Giovanni Franco learned he was picking up the mount on Bet Seattle in Monday’s $50,000 Honor the Hero Stakes at Canterbury Park at 9 a.m. the day of the race. After a bold inside move at the top of the lane through a hole left open by a tiring Stig’s Deputy, he found himself standing in the winner’s circle.

“My agent called me this morning and told me I had the ride, so I got instructions and rode the race,” Franco said.

Paco Lopez scored a stakes double on Monday as Monmouth Park closed out the Memorial Day weekend on the Jersey Shore.

Lopez was aboard Silverette, a confident winner of the $61,800 Red Cross for filly and mare sprinters. He followed up with a 10-1 upset on Rusty Slipper in the $63,600 Little Silver for 3-year-old fillies on the turf. It was the first stakes win for both fillies.

Silverette, a gray 4-year-old trained by Dale Romans, was well in hand in the deep stretch.

“She had plenty left to hold everyone off,” Lopez said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – After Beat the Blues broke sharpest of all in a field of five filly-mare sprinters Monday in the Grade 3 Winning Colors Stakes at Churchill Downs, jockey Miguel Mena held his position as long as he could – which was all the way to the wire.

In the last of six furlongs, Beat the Blues held off a steady surge from odds-on favorite Judy the Beauty to take the 10th running of the $108,000 Winning Colors by three-quarters of a length.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Rebounding from a fifth-place finish in the Kentucky Oaks, Midnight Lucky turned in a dominating performance to win Monday’s 83rd running of the Grade 1 Acorn Stakes by better than six lengths over Close Hatches, who was exiting the Kentucky Oaks as well.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Comma to the Top lost a fellow pacesetter for Monday’s $100,250 Los Angeles Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park when Fast Bullet was scratched the morning of the race because of illness.

Comma to the Top lost the rest of his competition in the Grade 3 Los Angeles Handicap shortly after the start.

Ridden by Edwin Maldonado, Comma to the Top took the lead a few strides into the six-furlong race and never was troubled, winning the ninth stakes of his career by 1 1/4 lengths.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Cross Traffic had fended off the early pace challenge of Handsome Mike and then turned back a stretch bid from Mark Valeski. With a furlong to go in Monday’s 120th Metropolitan Handicap, it looked as though Cross Traffic was going to avenge his tough head loss in the Grade 3 Westchester Handicap last month.

ELMONT, N.Y. - The primary purpose for bringing Tiz Miz Sue back to the races as a 6-year-old was to try to and get her a Grade 1 victory.

Mission accomplished.

Under a confident Joe Rocco Jr., Tiz Miz Sue engaged Authenticity outside the eighth pole then outfinished that rival to the wire to win Monday’s Grade 1, $400,000 Ogden Phipps Handicap by a half-length at Belmont Park.