Berts Law won the $48,000 Mendocino Purse by a length over Fire Break at Santa Anita Parks Oak Tree meeting Sunday.

Ridden for the first time by Joel Rosario, Berts Law led for most of the turf mile for 3-year-olds and up and held off a late charge from Rafael Bejarano and Fire Break to win in 1:34.61.

It was the third win of the day for Rosario, and the victories moved him past Bejarano atop the Oak Tree jockey standings.

Berts Law paid $19.20, $8.80 and $6.60. Fire Break returned $8.20 and $4.80. Blazing Spirit paid $4.80 to show.

It was the first win in the last seven starts for Berts Law. The 4-year-old gelding trained by Ed Moger Jr. earned $31,200 to take his career total to $162,072.

You Go West Girl and Banrock won the $150,000 closing day features on the turf for New York breds Sunday at Belmont Park.

You Go West Girl dominated the Ticonderoga for fillies and mares, beating Love Cove by 3 lengths.

Jose Lezcano was aboard for trainer Tom Proctor as the 5-year-old captured a second-straight state-bred stakes, improving to 8 for 21 overall. You Go West Girl ran the 1 1-8 miles on the rain-softened course in 1:53.53, paying $15 to win.

Banrock beat Gimme Credit by one length in the Mohawk for his 12th win in 30 races. Javier Castellano rode for trainer Tom Bush as Banrock, a 6-year-old, covered the 1 1-8 miles in 1:52.66.

New York racing shifts to Aqueduct on Wednesday.

Ramon Dominguez rode four stakes winners Saturday at rainy Belmont Park, including a three-quarters of a length victory by Haynesfield in the $250,000 Empire Classic.

The card featured five stakes for New York-bred horses, but it was the jockey from Venezuela who stole the show.

The victory on Haynesfield gave Dominguez a sweep of the final four stakes races on the card. He rode Driven by Success in the Hudson, Rightly So in the Iroquois and Fenway Faithful in the Sleepy Hollow.

It doesnt get any better. Im very excited, Dominguez said. Its special, especially being my first year riding year-round here. Its a very special day here in New York and to be able to win four races is a great feeling.

The win aboard Haynesfield capped the memorable afternoon. Trained by Steve Asmussen, Haynesfield took charge early and held off a late run from Ruffino. The time was 1:50.76 for the 1 1-8 miles. Haynesfield, a 3-year-old, improved to 5-for-8 with a victory that paid $11.

In other races:

Driven by Success, the 4-5 favorite, set the pace to easily take the $125,000 Hudson by 3 lengths over Legal Consent. Trained by Bruce Levine, Driven by Success got his second win in eight starts this year, a campaign in which the 4-year-old gelding faced most of the top sprinters in the Northeast. The time was 1:10.51 for six furlongs.

Rightly So extended her winning streak to four, rolling to a 2-length win over My Dinah in the $125,000 Iroquois Stakes for fillies and mares. The 3-year-old lost her debut by a half length in January and is unbeaten since for trainer Tony Dutrow. The 5-1 choice ran seven furlongs in 1:24.64.

Fenway Faithful pulled off an upset at 9-1 in the $100,000 Sleepy Hollow for 2-year-olds, beating City Trooper by one length. The colt got his second win in three starts for trainer Rick Violette, covering one mile in 1:38.94.

Kent Desormeaux won the only stakes race that eluded Dominguez as Mineralogist, the 3-5 favorite, beat Embrace Change by three-quarters of a length in the $100,000 Maid of the Mist for 2-year-old fillies. Trained by John Kimmel, Mineralogist ran one mile 1:40.04 for her third win in five starts. Dominguez was third aboard Stellaluce.

Drivers Cat Manzi and Jason Bartlett were injured Saturday in an accident during a race at Freehold Raceway.

Track officials say the horses were approaching the homestretch in the sixth race when American Idol, who was on the lead, broke stride and caused Fireinthesharkwith Bartlett in the sulkyto swerve outside sharply and unseat him.

Manzi was driving Royal Man, who was behind Fireintheshark, and could not avoid the sudden happenings. He was then tossed onto the track.

Both drivers were taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, said Howard Bruno, the tracks general manager.

Bartlett sprained his ankle and was released Saturday night.

Ellen Manzi, Manzis wife, said he fractured his tail bone, needed stitches on his chin and bruised his lower back.

British-bred filly April Pride and jockey Garrett Gomez rallied past pacesetter Century Park to win the $100,000 Harold C Ramser Sr Handicap at Santa Anita Park on Saturday.

Century Park and jockey Tyler Baze went straight to the front and led throughout the turf mile with April Pride a distant fifth on the backstretch, but April Pride moved up to second at the top of the stretch and overtook the leader in the final furlongs, winning by 1 1/2 lengths in 1:34.02.

April Pride paid $17.80, $9 and $5. Century Park paid $13.20 and $6.80. Starklarks paid $4.20 to show.

The favorite, Minute Limit, was never a factor and finished fourth.

It was the third win in 14 career starts and the first graded stakes win for the 3-year-old filly April Pride, who is trained by James Cassidy for owner Forging Oaks Farms. She earned $60,000 for a lifetime total of $182,967.

Obrigado beat Itsnotjustagame by 1 lengths Wednesday in the $47,400 Long Walk Home Purse at Santa Anitas Oak Tree meeting.

Ridden by Joel Rosario, France-bred Obrigado ran 1 1/2 miles on the turf course in 2:27.00 and paid $6.40, $3.20 and $2.20.

Itsnotjustagame returned $3.60 and $2.60, and Buenos Dias paid $2.60 to show.

Hall of Fame trainer Neil Drysdale had to risk losing Obrigado for an $80,000 claiming tag to make him eligible to run in the race. But the horse wasnt claimed and remained in Drysdales barn.

The victory, worth $28,200, increased Obrigados career earnings to $674,004, with seven wins in 34 starts. It was just his second win since 2007, including a span of 12 starts, 10 of them in graded stakes.

A downturn in wagering as a result of the sluggish economy is forcing Santa Anita to slash its overnight purses by 10 percent at the Oak Tree meeting.

The reductions take effect Saturday.

Track officials said Wednesday that through the first 16 days of racing, Oak Trees overall pari-mutuel wagering was down 12 percent compared to last year.

The meeting began Sept. 30 and runs through Nov. 8, including the Breeders Cup world championships on Nov. 6 and 7, the two richest days in thoroughbred racing.

Oak Tree director Sherwood Chillingworth said unemployment in Los Angeles County is near 13 percent, which has negatively affected wagering.

Belle Allure, the 2-5 favorite, nipped Kristi With a K by a head Wednesday to win the $106,500 Athenia Stakes for fillies and mares on the turf at Belmont Park.

Trapped behind a wall of horses turning for home, Belle Allure and jockey Ramon Dominguez found an opening in the lane. Belle Allure, a 4-year-old trained by Christophe Clement, surged past Kristi With a K to get up in the nick of time. The Irish-bred filly improved to 4-for-13 with her first stakes victory in the U.S., having captured a Group 3 stakes in France last year.

Belle Allure ran the 1 1-8 miles in 1:43.30 on the course labeled good, paying $2.90, $2.20 and $2.10. Kristi With a K, the second choice at 5-1, returned $3.50 and $2.10. Cable paid $3.10 to show.

The Athenia was originally scheduled for last Saturday. It was postponed due to inclement weather that rendered the Belmont grass course unusable.

There will be racing at Hollywood Park next year.

There had been questions about the tracks future since the Inglewood City Council in July approved a $2 billion retail and residential development on the site where there has been racing since 1938.

The California Horse Racing Board set the annual spring-summer meeting for April 21 through July 18. The fall meeting runs Nov. 3 through Dec. 19. The decision came at the boards regular meeting in Coalinga, Calif.

The track will open this years 27-day fall meeting on Nov. 13. It will be 13 days shorter than last year, with four stakes races dropped.

The Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission is investigating the death of a Texas jockey who was thrown from his horse during a thoroughbred race at Blue Ribbon Downs in Sallisaw over the weekend.

Racetrack general manager Blaine Storey said Mark Pace, 58, died Sunday after falling off his mount, Reep What You Sow, during the first race. According to the race chart, the horse, a 60-1 long shot, hit the rail on the backstretch, lost its jockey and did not finish.

Constantin Rieger, the racing commissions executive director, said an investigator for the agency is looking into the accident. He said Pace was from Devine, Texas.

The track ran a second race, but after other jockeys learned of Paces death, they asked that the rest of the card be canceled, Storey said. He deferred further comment to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, which owns the eastern Oklahoma track.

Choctaw Chief Greg Pyle said in a statement issued Monday that races will continue as scheduled at Blue Ribbon Downs for the remainder of the season. The track is scheduled to run races on Saturdays and Sundays through Nov. 28.

According to Lexington, Ky.-based Equibase Co., which keeps a database of racing information and statistics, Pace had ridden in only two thoroughbred races this yearthe one Sunday and another at Blue Ribbon Downs on Oct. 10. Rhonda Norby, Equibases marketing and communications manager, said the companys records dating back to 1976 do not show Pace having ridden in another thoroughbred race.

Pace rode in three quarter horse races between 1981 and 1986, according to the Amarillo, Texas-based American Quarter Horse Association.

According to Darrell Haire, the western region manager for The Jockeys Guild, Pace is the fourth rider to die from injuries sustained in an Oklahoma race since 1940, when the guild began keeping records. Three of the deaths have come at Blue Ribbon Downs.

Of the Oklahoma deaths, Craig Orville died in a race at the Canton City Fair in August 1946. At Blue Ribbon Downs, 16-year-old Kevin Lindsey died in a schooling race in July 1986 and Kemberly Stogner, 36, died in a training race in May 1998.

Haire said 150 jockeys have died in riding accidents in North America since 1940.

The race in which Pace was riding was a 5 1/2 -furlong maiden claiming race for fillies and mares 3 years and older with a purse of $5,000.

I didnt actually know the guy, but nonetheless, he was a jock who was a part of the colony and anytime anything happens to one of them, it strikes close to home and it gets you thinking, longtime quarter horse jockey G.R. Carter said. This profession, its not a matter of if you get hurt, its when and how bad. We all know the chances are there.

Before Pace, Haire said the last riding fatality in North America was Dec. 25, when 36-year-old jockey Sam Thompson Jr. died five days after he was thrown following a race at Los Alamitos in California.

Another jockey also was injured on Saturday night while riding at Remington Park in Oklahoma City. Martin Escobars mount, Cuvee Blanc, fell a stride after the finish line, and Escobar broke his right hand and suffered a small fracture in his back, according to his agent, Kevin Johnson.

Escobar walked away from the incident under his own power but will likely miss four to six weeks because of his injuries.