BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Dutch Girl Holdings LLC and Irving Ventures LLC's Queen Maxima crowned herself the monarch of female turf sprinters in Southern California with a commanding victory in the Grade 3 Monrovia presented by Don Julio. It was the fourth consecutive triumph on the Santa Anita turf for the Jeff Mullins trainee, who defeated five other fillies and mares going six-and-a-half furlongs on the downhill course.

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

OCALA, FL-The first of seven under tack sessions previewing the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company Spring Sale of 2-year-olds in training begins Sunday at the Ocala Training Center with Hips 1 - 173 set to begin breezing at 8:00 a.m. EST. Admission is free and open to the public.

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Mystic Lake, the Florida-bred champion 3-year-old filly and champion female sprinter of 2024 as named by the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association, returns after two months on the sidelines in the $650,000 Resolute Racing Madison at Keeneland Tuesday.

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

APRIL 5, 1997-Florida-bred Frisk Me Now, who two months earlier won his first stakes by taking Gulfstream Park's $100,000 Danka Hutcheson (G2) at odds of 105-1, won the $200,000 Flamingo (G3) at Hialeah with regular rider Eddie King Jr. aboard.

BY JIM SAUNDERS

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TALLAHASSEE - Pointing to the federal government's power to regulate immigration, a U.S. district judge Friday temporarily blocked a new Florida law aimed at cracking down on undocumented immigrants.