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ARCADIA, Calif. -- Ian Kruljac has won four races as a trainer, all with Finest City. The latest and easily the most important victory came Saturday when Finest City ran the race of her life -- as Kruljac had promised -- when pulling an 8-1 upset in the $1 million Filly and Mare Sprint at Santa Anita.Always in the hunt after breaking sharply from post 12 in a field of 13, Finest City and jockey Mike Smith held off the oncoming Wavell Avenue to prevail by three-quarters of a length. Paulassilverlining was third, another 1-1/4 lengths back, with Taras Tango nailing By the Moon for fourth, another three-quarters of a length behind.Finest City returned $19.40 after finishing the seven-furlong distance in 1:22.37 over a fast track. A 4-year-old Pennsylvania-bred daughter of City Zip, Finest City is owned by the Seltzer Thoroughbreds of Tyler and Wayne Seltzer.The pace was hotly contested in the Filly and Mare Sprint, with Gloryzapper holding a tenuous lead over Paulassilverlining and Finest City leaving the half-mile pole, and By the Moon poised to strike from in behind that line. Approaching the quarter pole, Wavell Avenue and jockey Joel Rosario were well under way with a big looping move, and by the eighth pole, the race had boiled down to Smith going to work on Finest City to fend off Wavell Avenue.Kruljac, 28, dropped out of the Racetrack Industry Program at the University of Arizona as a senior when returning to his racetrack roots. His father, Eric, and uncle, Jay, are veterans of the California and Arizona circuits, and Ian has been a licensed trainer for only a little more than a year. Leading up to the Breeders Cup, Kruljac said he and the Seltzers had eyed the Filly and Mare Sprint with Finest City for months despite the fact she had run at a variety of distances and on both dirt and turf. Given the wide-open nature of this race -- the favorite, Carina Mia, was a tepid 3-1 -- Kruljac was quietly confident in the days approaching the race, saying: Shes running, not me.She sends herself out of there and Mike chose not to take her back, Kruljac said in the race aftermath. It was absolutely perfect. She has a high cruising speed and I could tell he was in hand. It is just such an honor to compete with all these top trainers and have a top filly.The old handicapping angle of turf to dirt and a long turf race to middle-distance sprint is really a good way to get a horse ready for a race like this, said Smith. They learn to relax a little better and its easier on them.Last year at Keeneland, Wavell Avenue and Rosario won the BC Filly and Mare Sprint at 10-1. Dismissed at 13-1 this time, she was bidding to become the second two-time winner in the 10-year history of this race, following Groupie Doll (2012-13).She ran huge, said Rosario. I thought I was going to go by Mike for a minute, but she was second-best today.After the top five, the order was Spelling Again, Haveyougoneaway, Irish Jasper, Carina Mia, Wonder Gal, Gloryzapper, Paola Queen, and Gomo.The $2 exacta (12-10) paid $216.40, the $1 trifecta (12-10-9) returned $1,235.70, and the 10-cent superfecta (12-10-9-3) was worth $839.20.Howie Long Raiders Jersey . Nathan MacKinnon, Jamie McGinn and Jan Hejda also scored for the Avalanche, who won despite being outshot 38-23. MacKinnons goal, also on the power play, came with just over a minute remaining. Otis Sistrunk Jersey . 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Foster Moreau Jersey .Y. -- Syracuse has turned up the defence at the right time all season, and when High Point threatened to pull off a monumental upset the second-ranked Orange did what they do best with their quick hands and savvy play.PHILADELPHIA -- With the games remaining on the schedule quickly running out, each night out becomes crucial for a Miami Marlins team trying to make a late run at a National League wild-card spot.A crushing 4-3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies in 13 innings on Friday night halted a run of five wins in seven games, costing the team a chance to climb above .500 and instead dropping the Marlins to 73-74. That comes after a horrid 1-10 stretch from Aug. 27 to Sept. 6 that nearly ruined their playoff chances.Every one is painful from the standpoint of you know where youre at, and you have to think about winning absolutely every game, Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. Every one is tough, it hurts, you know, and thats just the way it is this time of year.If you have a team that cares and is trying to obviously fight for stuff, which I know we are, these kind of rip your heart out a little bit, but youve got to bounce back and keep playing because you still never know.Those 11 games were enough to send Miami from 1 1/2 games out of the two wild-card spots to six games back, though theyve battled back to cut that down to four games behind with 15 to play.Two teams are ahead of them for the last spot: St. Louis (76-70) is three games up on the Marlins but still two games back of the New York Mets, who remain in control of their own destiny after beating the Minnesota Twins 3-0 at home on Friday nigght.ddddddddddddMiami has three games left against New York on Sept. 26-28 but first has to navigate two more against Philadelphia and then three each against Washington and Atlanta before the Mets visit south Florida.To keep the momentum going, Mattingly will turn to Saturday night starter Jose Urena, whos coming off the best outing of his two-year professional career. Urena beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-0 and came one out shy of a complete-game shutout, pulled after 8 2/3 innings with four strikeouts and no walks.Since moving into the starting rotation in July, Urena is 3-5 with a 3.88 ERA.Philadelphia, which isnt yet officially eliminated from playoff contention for the fifth straight season -- it wont be much longer, with an elimination number of three -- sits 12 1/2 games back of the second wild-card spot.The Phillies will hand the ball on Saturday to Jeremy Hellickson, who enters with a 11-9 record and 3.76 ERA. Hes coming off a win over Pittsburgh on Sept. 12 in which he gave up one unearned run in 6 1/3 innings.In five starts against the Marlins this season, hes 2-1 with a 2.59 ERA, giving up 10 runs (nine earned) in 31 1/3 innings. His last time against them, on Sept. 7, he took the loss, giving up four runs (three earned) in six innings of a 6-0 loss. ' ' '