Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. captured both of Saturday’s turf stakes at Keeneland aboard favorites. In Italian controlled the Jenny Wiley (G1), and Twilight Gleaming revealed a new tactical dimension in the Giant’s Causeway S.

Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. swept both stakes for two-year-olds at Aqueduct on Sunday, piloting Champions Dream in the Nashua (G3) and Good Sam in the Tempted.

Saturday’s Diana (G1) shaped up as a tricky contest on paper, with four well-credentialed Chad Brown trainees. But In Italian dominated her better-fancied stablemates using tactics of brutal simplicity.

Fourth in the past two runnings of the Just a Game (G1), Regal Glory arrived in Saturday’s $480,000 renewal in the form of her life, and it showed.

Bleecker Street extended her record to 7-for-7 in Friday's New York (G1) and Caravel led throughout in the Intercontinental (G3).

Trainer Chad Brown and jockey Flavien Prat kicked off Kentucky Oaks Day action when they captured the $250,000 Modesty Stakes.

Although Saturday’s inaugural $490,500 Pegasus World Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G3) served up a couple of tactical plot twists, 4-5 favorite Regal Glory ensured a logical conclusion at Gulfstream Park.

With the scratch of pace rival Jakarta, 19-10 favorite Blowout capitalized as the controlling speed in Saturday’s Churchill Distaff Turf Mile (G2).