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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. 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ARLINGTON, Texas -- All-Star outfielder Ian Desmond has turned down a $17.2 million qualifying offer from the Texas Rangers.The Rangers announced Monday that Desmond had turned down the qualifying offer. The free agent can still negotiate with the AL West champions.If Desmond signs with another club before the amateur draft next June, the Rangers would receive a draft pick as compensation at the end of the first round.Desmond last winter turneed down a $15.dddddddddddd8 qualifying offer from the Washington Nationals, the team for which he was a shortstop the previous seven seasons. Desmond signed an $8 million, one-year deal with Texas during spring training and converted to the outfield.Desmond hit .285 with 22 homers and 86 RBI in 156 games for Texas. ' ' '