11.   Inside Information and her stablemate Heavenly Prize, the two best fillies in the East, have won five stakes in the last six weeks.

12.   Lukas also gave Smith the mount on the top sprinter Snow Ridge, on whom he has won four stakes this year.

13.   McCarron has won back-to-back stakes many times in his Hall of Fame career.

14.   Mocha Express won the Lone Star Park Handicap and Assault Stakes last season, and recently won a stakes on grass at Turf Paradise in Phoenix.

15.   Pat Day did win a stakes.

16.   Remaining is a field of California-based horses, with only General Challenge, Malek and Baffert-trained River Keen having won stakes on U.S. dirt tracks.

17.   Romarin and Fit to Lead won stakes back there but were missed in California.

18.   So, Pulpit, who had never run in a stakes race, showed great maturity as he outran rivals who had won stakes.

19.   Spokesman Reiner Hochscheid said negotiations over the past six months had given Thyssen reason to believe it could win the stake.

20.   The Chinese government won the stake in the two airlines with some arm-twisting.