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DEL MAR, Calif. Pervis Atkins . -- Ring Weekend did not need a fast pace to display his late rally in Saturdays $201,035 Seabiscuit Handicap on turf at Del Mar.Typically, Ring Weekend has benefited from quick rivals to help his closing style. On Saturday, Om and What a View set a moderate pace of 24.21 seconds for an opening quarter-mile and 48.48 for a half-mile. Ring Weekend was sixth behind the leaders on the backstretch before unleashing a wide rally that carried him to the front in the stretch.The wide rally gave Ring Weekend his second Grade 2 stakes win in his last four starts, preceded by a victory in the Bernard Baruch Handicap at Saratoga in September.The win gave trainer Graham Motion and jockey Drayden Van Dyke a sweep of the two stakes at Del Mar on Saturday. They teamed to win the Grade 3 Jimmy Durante Stakes at a mile on turf for 2-year-old fillies with Journey Home.Ring Weekend ($8) ran 1-1/16 miles on turf in 1:42.29.We knew he had that kick, said Alice Clapham, Motions assistant.Vyjack, the winner of the Grade 2 City of Hope Mile at Santa Anita in October, closed well to finish second by a head, a half-length in front of Om, the 3-2 favorite.Hunt finished fourth, followed by A Red Tie Day, What a View, Hi Happy, and Stylistics United. The Seabiscuit Handicap was the American debut for Hi Happy, the 2015 Argentine Horse of the Year. Hi Happy had won his first six starts in Argentina.The first three finishers ran in Breeders Cup races at Santa Anita earlier this month. Ring Weekend was seventh in the BC Mile, Vyjack was seventh in the BC Dirt Mile, and Om was second, beaten a nose, in the BC Turf Sprint.Ring Weekend finished 3-1/2 lengths behind Tourist in the BC Mile after racing in traffic earlier in the race. Clapham said Ring Weekend was unsettled before the start, which hurt his chances.He was a little restless in the gate and broke slow, Clapham said of the BC Mile. That messed him up, and he lost position. He was better today.Ring Weekend, a 5-year-old gelding by Tapit, has won 7 of 20 starts and earned $1,448,744 for the partnership of West Point Thoroughbreds and St. Elias Stable.Ring Weekend has won six stakes, including the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita in 2015. Clapham said Ring Weekend will be among 10 or 12 horses Motion plans to have stabled in Southern California this winter. Cheap NFL Jerseys China Wholesale .ca NFL Power Rankings, overtaking the Denver Broncos and remaining ahead of NFC competition San Francisco, Carolina and New Orleans. Ping Bodie . The Clippers were angry about blowing a big lead; the Kings didnt like being in that kind of hole and nearly digging themselves out only to lose. https://www.cheapnfljerseyschina.co/frank-oliver-jersey-for-sale/ . Lack made 20 saves for his third shutout of the season as the Canucks blanked the St. Louis Blues 1-0 in the first post-Olympic game for both teams night. ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Its a Minnesota father-daughter tradition. Every March, if Lynx point guard Lindsay Whalen is home instead of playing overseas, she and her dad, Neil, take in an early day of the state high school hockey tournament at the Xcel Energy Center.A scheduling conflict at the Target Center forced the Lynx to shift the first two games of their WNBA semifinal series with Phoenix to Xcel, the NHL arena 10 miles east of Minneapolis, across the Mississippi River. So when Whalen took the court for Game 1 on Wednesday night, with Minnesota facing archrival Phoenix in this round for the fourth consecutive season, the surroundings were more familiar to her than her teammates.It helped that the Lynx shipped their home court from Target Center rather than using Xcels. Whalen and Maya Moore quickly made themselves comfortable, standing out in a game featuring 11 Olympians from Rio and virtually no defense.Moore scored 13 of her 31 points in the runaway second quarter, and Whalen had 19 points and seven assists as the top-seeded Lynx won easily, 113-95, setting a WNBA record for points in regulation playoff game. Game 2 of the best-of-five series is Friday (ESPNews, 8 p.m. ET).They pretty much dominated every facet of the game, said Phoenix guard Diana Taurasi, one of the Mercurys six Olympians. There are a lot of things we have to prioritize, and we didnt do any of them today. We didnt limit anyone. They got what they wanted, when they wanted. Thats just a lack of team defense, which the last couple of weeks weve been pretty good at.Six Lynx players scored in double figures, including reserves Renee Montgomery (11 points) and Natasha Howard (10), as Minnesota shot 63.9 percent from the field. Center Sylvia Fowles had 16 points and 10 rebounds. Taurasi finished with 25 points and Brittney Griner had 16 for Phoenix, which lost despite shooting 53.5 percent from the field. Minnesota owned a 38-20 rebounding edge, limiting the 6-foot-8 Griner to two rebounds, none offensive.Things were so out of hand by the end of third quarter that Mercury coach Sandy Brondello gave Taurasi, Griner, Penny Taylor and Candice Dupree the rest of the night off. Down by 20, theres no use trying to beat a dead horse, Brondello said.The teams hadnt met since June 7, playing their three-game series in the regular seasons first three weeks (the Lynx swept). The eighth-seeded Mercury won back-to-back single-elimination games in the WNBAs new playoff format to reach the semis. But they were no match for the Lynx, rested and fresh after 10 days off and aiming to become the first WNBA team since the 2001-02 Los Angeles Sparks to repeat.Whalen, one of Minnesotas four U.S. Olympians (plus Anna Cruz of Spain), delivered the signature moment in a 14-0 second-quarter run that put the Lynx up 39-25. She finished a fast break with a behind-the-back dribble in the lane and a hesitation layup, wowing the boisterous crowd of 9,013. She waited for a late-arriving Taurasi -- an Olympic teammate in Rio last month -- to sail past before banking it in.Phoenix never came closer than 112 points the rest of the way, and trailed by 25 in the third quarter. Jason Spriggs. I was just trying to push the tempo, Whalen said. Coach [Cheryl Reeve] worked me a lot this year on getting in there, making a move, changing directions. I was able to get it done that time.I almost lost it. Another inch one way and it would have been a turnover and they would have been running the other way. I was a little bit good and a little bit lucky on that play.Said Taurasi: I want to act surprised and I want to act like, How did she do that? But Im not. Ive played with her and against her for so long. She has the ability to do things that no one else in the world can do, especially when shes engaged like that.Shes one of the best players in the world. Sometimes, theyre better than you. Today she made a lot of those plays where she was just better than us.Lynx players wore purple sneakers to honor the memory of Prince, their highest-profile fan who hosted an impromptu victory party at Paisley Park last season after the Lynx won their third WNBA championship in five years. Designated fashionista Seimone Augustus generally picks the color for the Lynx playoff sneakers, but players said this was a team-wide call.Minnesotas home away from homeRelocating playoff games because of building conflicts is an unfortunate fact of life in the WNBA, something the Lynx managed to avoid until this season.Several months ago, Target Center officials pushed back a five-day appearance by Cirque du Soliel, originally slated for the Olympic break, to install a new scoreboard as part of the buildings $130 million renovation. Rescheduling Cirque to Sept. 28-Oct. 2 forced the Lynx to find another venue for Games 1 and 2, abandoning an arena where the Lynx posted the leagues best home record since 2014 (43-8).The Lynx already contracted to play next summer at Xcel, the home of the NHLs Minnesota Wild, during the final stage of renovations. Xcel officials agreed to host these playoff games as well, with the Wild shifting three days of training camp to another location.Xcel general manager Jack Larson said the building hadnt hosted a basketball game since the 2001 state high school boys tournament. So most Xcel workers had no practice experience assembling a basketball floor.The Lynx shipped their court across town on three semi tractor-trailers. Target Center operations director Tom Renner supervised a crew of 20 that put it together in time for the Lynx to practice last Monday. They broke it down for a Wild preseason game Tuesday night, then restored it for Wednesdays shootaround.We could take a second and bemoan it, but it really doesnt do us any good, Reeve said. The mindset is, we are very fortunate we have a beautiful facility in St. Paul. And we said we dont care where the game is played. Its about us being together, and our fans. If were all there, thats our home court.The Lynx, and Whalen, certainly made it feel like home Wednesday night. ' ' '