NEW ORLEANS - Before Sunday, Badge of Silver was a flashy sprinter who ran very fast. Now, he's a flashy route horse who runs very fast.

Making his first start over a distance of ground, Badge of Silver dispatched his rivals as easily as he had in two starts at one turn, winning the $150,000 by 10 lengths. Badge of Silver ($7.80) pressed a fair pace under Robby Albarado and took off just before the quarter-pole, running alone through the stretch under the mildest encouragement. His time of 1:42.99 for one and one-sixteenth miles missed the stakes record by .01 seconds.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - An uneventful trip for Man From Wicklow led to a big event in the career of trainer Rick Violette.

Under a perfect trip from Jerry Bailey, Man From Wicklow rallied powerfully through the stretch to a 4 3/4-length victory in Sunday's $200,000 before 13,999 at Gulfstream Park.

The victory was the first Grade 1 stakes win for Violette, 50, who has been training horses for 25 years.

``It's my first Grade 1 and with a horse I own, which is great,' Violette said. ``The breeder [J.R. Cavanaugh] is a very, very good friend of mine.'

Live racing was cancelled at Aqueduct after today's first race due to frigid weather conditions.

The $75,000-added Hollie Hughes Handicap that was to be run today has been rescheduled for next Sunday, February 23. It will be reopened to original nominations and redrawn.

Candid Glen won the $200,000 for the third consecutive year on Saturday night when he darted clear by a length and a half over runner-up Red Mountain and third-place finisher Dynameaux in the mile and an eighth race, which was the richest of five stakes on the card at Sam Houston Race Park.

Attendance ontrack was 8,236, while handle on the 10-race card was $3,355,424.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Ten years ago, Kotashaan finished second in the San Marcos Stakes and won the San Luis Obispo Handicap in a Horse of the Year campaign that included a victory in the Breeders' Cup Turf at Santa Anita.

So far this year, The Tin Man has matched the first two objectives. On Saturday, The Tin Man scored an easy victory in the $200,000 , leading throughout and drawing off through the stretch to win by 9 1-2 lengths.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Horses from all over the Eastern seaboard converge on South Florida to prepare for the spring classics, but in order to come up with the winning exacta in Saturday's at Gulfstream Park, you merely had to look eight miles. Trust N Luck ran away with the first Grade 1 race of the year for 3-year-old males, and when fellow Calder resident Supah Blitz ran second, the locals had tattooed the invaders with a one-two punch.

Thanks to the whims of Mother Nature, horseplayers at Laurel Park will get a rare opportunity to tackle three six-figure stakes on one card.

A snowstorm that wiped out live racing at Laurel on both Saturday and Sunday has created a stakes bonanza for Monday's special Presidents Day program.

The regularly scheduled feature is the Grade 2, $200,000 General George Handicap, which drew a field of 12 older sprinters, led by Grade 1 winners Affirmed Success and D'wildcat.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Martha's Music shoots for her fifth straight win in Monday's $75,000-added Rare Treat Handicap at Aqueduct, although there could be something standing in her way, namely the weather.

The forecast in the Northeast was for several inches of snow, beginning Sunday evening and continuing on Monday.

Even if the Big A is open for the special Presidents Day holiday card, Martha's Music still has to get there from her Philadelphia Park barn.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Explosive Beauty was such an overwhelming winner last month in the $50,000 Dixie Belle on opening day at Oaklawn Park, the obvious question has to be asked: Can she duplicate the effort when she starts Monday in the track's $50,000 Martha Washington?

"I hope she does," said Cole Norman, who trains Explosive Beauty. "Off a huge race like that you're always concerned about a bounce, [but] she seems to have come out of the race just fine, and had a good work this week.

ALBANY, Calif. - When you win 400 races a year, winning five in one day becomes, well, almost routine.

That's how Russell Baze started the holiday weekend with five victories on Friday at Golden Gate Fields. He then won the first four races on Saturday's program.

Baze opened Friday's card with a routine wire-to-wire victory aboard Condellone in a 5 1/2-furlong race for $6,250 claimers. Condellone had not won since her debut on July 12, 2001, but was dropping from a $16,000 claimer at Santa Anita.