Favored Political Attack and jockey Ramon Dominguez held off the late charge of 16-1 longshot Estio to win the $100,000 Sussex Handicap.

Political Attack ($4.20) stalked pacesetter Stanzaic to the far turn of the 1 1/16-mile race, run over yielding turf, and took the lead in the stretch. Estio rallied up the inside, but fell three-quarters of a length short. Stanzaic held third, three lengths farther back.

Owned by Erdenheim Farm and trained by Michael Matz, Political attack ran the distance in 1:44.98.

Gators N Bears did all the dirty work in the $50,000 Sonny Hine Stakes, and his reward was a victory in the six-furlong race for 3-year-olds. Under Rick Wilson, Gators N Bears pushed the early pace of Philadelphia Jim, put him away in midstretch, and had enough left to edge the late-running Super Fuse by three-quarters of a length.

Super Fuse bobbled at the start and rallied wide. He finished a head in front of First Blush.

Gators N Bears ($5.20) is owned and trained by Leo Nechamkin. He ran the six furlongs in 1:08.80.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Tusayan ($12.70) came charging down the center of the course in the stretch to capture the $144,750 Bunty Lawless Stakes for Ontario-sired runners.

Jockey Emile Ramsammy had Tusayan near the back of the pack during the first six furlongs of the one-mile turf race. All Star Lover dueled with Starbeau, Mister Coop, and Don't Seven Out through fractions of 23.47 and 47.23 over a course labeled as good, and All Star Lover emerged with the lead in midstretch.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Dancal already owned an impressive international portfolio before she arrived at The Meadowlands for Friday's Grade 3, $150,000 Violet Handicap.

The 5-year-old, bred in Ireland, had won races in South Africa and Dubai over the last two seasons, and on Friday she scored a front-running victory for her first North American graded stakes victory.

Dancal moved into Todd Pletcher's barn over the summer and has settled right into the program with two wins in three starts.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Three-time stakes winner Lord Samarai heads a full field of 2-year-olds in the $100,000 Ascot Graduation at Hastings on Sunday. The 1 1/16-mile Ascot is the lone middle-distance race open to all 2-year-olds at Hastings and is the final major stakes race at the meet, which closes Nov. 30.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Snow Dance has had a terrific career in middle-distance turf races, winning several graded stakes and $938,597. But with no more than two races left in her career, trainer John T. Ward Jr. will try something different by running her Sunday in the $150,000 Rood and Riddle Dowager Stakes, a 1 1/2-mile turf race at Keeneland.

"Three turns," said Ward. "I think she'll probably run real well. There just weren't a whole lot of opportunities left for her. She's shown her ability to go long and kind of relax now."

ELMONT, N.Y. - With a record of 2 for 2 on the grass, Artie Schiller takes his game to the next level in Sunday's $75,000 Pilgrim Stakes at Belmont Park.

Artie Schiller meets eight other 2-year-old males in the 1 1/8-mile Pilgrim, which will be run on the inner turf course.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Wind Flow's trainer, Caesar Dominguez, evaluated the competition that his filly trounced in the $48,000 Bustles and Bows Stakes last month at Fairplex Park. "I hate to say this," Dominguez said, "but she was running against $40,000 fillies. Even though it was a stakes race, it was a weak stakes race."

ELMONT, N.Y. - Joe Hampshire Jr., the king of the New England jockey colony, will ride in New York this winter.

With no Thoroughbred racing scheduled in Massachusetts during the winter, Hampshire has decided to start riding at Aqueduct when the fall meet opens on Oct. 29. The last time Hampshire, 39, had a mount in New York was 1988.

Max Hall, Hampshire's agent, was at Belmont Park on Friday morning, announcing his rider's imminent arrival.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Different day, same result. Jockey Robby Albarado, riding Joe's Son Joey, came from midpack on Friday to win the $84,525 Woodford County Stakes at Keeneland in a virtual replay of what occurred the previous day, when Albarado urged On the Fritz to victory in the Clark County Stakes.