Notes on Saturday's full slate of stakes from coast-to-coast are coming to you a day late courtesy of Blogger's downtime.

Winslow Homer made his stakes debut a winning one with a professional effort in the Grade III Holy Bull Stakes for 3-year-olds at Gulfstream Park.

The gray son of Unbridled’s Song, who broke his maiden at Saratoga last summer, stalked the pace through hotly contested fractions down the backside. He split horses turning for home and edged away from favored Jackson Bend late to win by three-fourths of a length, stopping the clock in 1:35.97 for the mile.

"There is always a little concern when you are up on the inside covered up, especially with a young horse like him, but I was hoping that somewhere along the line things would open up because I felt like I had a lot of horse," said NYRA leading rider Ramon Dominguez, who was aboard the colt. "When the hole barely opened up, he squeezed through horses, and did it very professionally. When he made the lead, he started to come back to me so I had to encourage him a little to keep going, but he’s a professional and he’s just improving tremendously with each race."

Tony Dutrow, who trains Winslow Homer for Rick Porter’s Fox Hill Farms, said the colt would be pointed toward the Fountain of Youth on Feb. 20.

Jackson Bend, making his first start for trainer Nick Zito, had a five-race win streak snapped.

"My horse ran his race," jockey Jeremy Rose said. "I had him positioned right where I wanted him, but when the winner split horses and made his move, he had a little more left. But my horse is a good horse. He ran well."

William’s Kitten, who was near the back of the pack early, rallied to be third, just over three lengths back.

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Meanwhile, the well-traveled Ron the Greek ran down favored Maximus Ruler in deep stretch to take the Grade III Lecomte Stakes at the Fair Grounds.

The colt broke from the far outside in the field of 10 and trailed early as Maximus Ruler set a hot pace from the rail while pressured by longshot Depaul. Ron the Greek still had eight to beat as the field entered the stretch but rallied on the far outside to get the win under James Graham. Maximus Ruler repelled a challenge from Cool Bullet before yielding late to the winner; Letsgetitonmom was third, a half-length behind.

Tom Amoss trains Ron the Greek, who was running on his fourth different track with his fourth different rider in as many starts; he broke his maiden at Hoosier Park in October, won an allowance at Delta Downs in November and was fourth in the Springboard Mile at Remington in December.

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Returning to stakes company at the scene of his biggest wins, Friesan Fire had things all his own way in winning the Louisiana Handicap earlier in the day at the Fair Grounds.

Taking the lead out of the gate, he reeled off moderate fractions and held off General Quarters, winner of last year’s Blue Grass, to win by nearly two under Shaun Bridgemohan.

Friesan Fire won the Lecomte, Risen Star and Louisiana Derby last year to stamp himself as the Kentucky Derby favorite; he finished last, then came out of the Preakness with an injury. He was third in his first start back against allowance company on Dec. 3; trainer Steve Asmussen took the blinkers off for that performance, but they were back on Saturday.

General Quarters, who was also injured in the Preakness and is working his way back from a similar layoff, ran a solid race in defeat, rallying mildly into a soft pace and finishing 7 ½ lengths ahead of third-place Good and Lucky.

Also on the Fair Grounds card, the 3-year-old filly Jody Slew took the Tiffany Lass Stakes, Cash Refund won the Gaudin Memorial, El Caballo returned from a nearly seven-month layoff to take the Colonel E.R. Bradley Stakes and Annihilation won the Leggio Stakes.

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Wall Street Wonder captured the 102nd running of the Paumonok Stakes Saturday at Aqueduct.

Under Channing Hill, the son of City Place outsprinted odds-on favorite Driven By Success through fractions of :22.72 and :45.44 down the backside and opened up under mild urging down the stretch, winning by eight and stopping the clock in 1:09.40 for six furlongs. John Terranova trains.

The Aqueduct card was marred by the fatal breakdown of Honest Wildcat in the first race. Jockey Richie Migliore was removed from the track on a stretcher complaining of blurred vision; X-rays came back negative and he was found to have suffered a mild concussion. He plans to visit a neurologist this week. Migliore will be off his mounts Sunday but won't miss much riding if he gets clearance by the weekend; following today's card Aqueduct is dark until Friday.

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Kinsale King won the Grade II Palos Verdes Handicap at Santa Anita as Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Dancing in Silks finished third in his 2010 debut.

Kinsale King dueled with Eaton’s Gift early, stuck his head in front turning for

home and held off a stubborn Ventana for the win. It was the third straight win for Kinsale King, who is now headed for the Dubai Golden Shaheen.

Dancing in Silks sat behind the duel, swung wide turning for home, and rallied mildly for the show.

Santa Anita ran an incident-free program in its first day of racing after poor weather in California forced the cancellation of three cards last week.