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With veteran sprinter Rebel Dane grabbing headlines, trainer Gary Portelli has received a boost with the Gerry Harvey-owned Improvement emerging as a promising new talent for the stable.Sent out the $3.10 favourite, the three-year-old filly foreshadowed her potential by winning the TAB Maiden Plate (1200m) at Canterbury on Wednesday.Loveletter ($9.50) and Peaceful Sea ($4.20) filled the placings.Portelli is preparing to fly to Hong Kong with dual Group One winner Rebel Dane for the International Sprint on December 11.Its good to get a winner for Gerry in town, Portelli said.Ive only had a few horses for him but this is the best one.While Improvement led all the way, Portelli believes she will be a better horse when she can take a sit behind the speed.When shes got a horse to run down at trackwork shell run down anything, Portelli said.Id like to see her when she steps up in grade.Shes a little fighter.Improvement was beaten by Montreal in a maiden at Hawkesbury when she made her debut on November 19.Montreal is a horse rated highly by trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott and he is down to run at Rosehill on Saturday.Bong Bong Cup form held up strongly for nine-year-old Tradtri as he won the #TheRaces Handicap (1900m).The veteran was narrowly defeated in the picnic Cup and returned to city grade to pull away by 3-1/4 lengths.Trainer Robert Price, who rides Tradtris work, said the plan was originally to retire the horse after he gave the owners a day out at Bong Bong.I said geez guys, this horse is going too good to retire, lets give him another crack, Price said.Godolphins imported English jockey James Doyle narrowly missed out on making his first ride during his Australian stint a winner with Miami Dade finishing second to Kingsguard in the final race.Doyle arrived in Australia on Monday to replace James McDonald who is not riding after being charged with a betting offence.He has five rides at Rosehill on Saturday - four for Godolphin and the Peter Robl-trained Ninth Legion in the Group Three Festival Stakes. 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Now tied for second in the league in shootout goals, the 24-year-old likes to see what the opposing goaltender has in store before he ultimately lands on a move. TORONTO -- Jose Bautista understands its been a slow month for the Blue Jays offense.If things dont speed up soon, Toronto might miss out on a wild card spot.Ubaldo Jimenez and two relievers combined on a three-hitter and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Blue Jays 4-0 on Thursday night, moving into a tie with Toronto in the AL wild card race with three games remaining.He executed well, kept us off-balance and made some good pitches, Bautiusta said of Jimenez. His ball was moving.Toronto was held scoreless for the third time in September. The Blue Jays have lost 16 straight games in which they havent homered. They went 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position Thursday.We just need to get back to hitting the baseball, getting on base and knocking them in, Bautista said. It falls on guys like me to drive the runs in and we have to do a better job.The Orioles visit New York for the final weekend of the season, while Toronto head to Boston to face the AL East champion Red Sox.Boston is a tough place to play but our guys play pretty good there, manager John Gibbons said. Im not worried about our guys. Weve got our backs up against the wall but were a good spot.Detroit, which was rained out Thursday, is 1 1/2 games behind the Orioles and Blue Jays.When he last started at Toronto on June 12, Jimenez allowed five runs and six hits in 1/3 of an inning, the shortest start of his career.The right-hander carved up the Blue Jays for 6 2/3 innings. The only hit he allowed was Ezequiel Carreras single to begin the first. Josh Donaldson followed with a walk but Jimenez retired the next six batters in order.He basically shut us down, Gibbons said. We couldnt get anything going.Torontos Marcus Stroman (9-10) gave up nine hits and four runs in seven-plus innings, reaching the 200-inning plateau for the first time. Stroman is winless in eight starts.Were hoping our luck starts to turn, Stroman said. Were hoping to go into Boston and come outt firing.ddddddddddddJimenez (8-12) improved to 3-1 with a 2.31 ERA in five September starts. He walked three and struck out five.(Jimenez) was in command pretty much all night, Orioles catcher Matt Wieters said. In a big game like that, he really kept his emotions under control like I knew he would. He threw the ball great.Donnie Hart got one out in the seventh and Brad Brach finished.Baltimore trailed through eight innings on Wednesday before winning 3-2 on Hyun Soo Kims two-run homer in the ninth. Thanks to Jimenezs effort on Thursday, the Orioles have won five of six.This time of year, momentum is huge, Wieters said. Over 162 (games), momentum is going to come and go but once you start getting close to the playoffs, momentum is big. Were going to try and keep it going as long as we can.LONG ODDS WITHOUT LONG BALLToronto is 8-34 this season when it does not homer.END OF THE LINETorontos team-record streak of starting pitchers allowing one earned run or less ended at seven games.DRAWING POWERThe crowd of 47,791 was Torontos 39th sellout. The Blue Jays drew an AL-high 3,392,099 this season.TRAINERS ROOMBlue Jays: Travis returned after sitting out the previous two games. He jammed his surgically repaired shoulder in Mondays benches-clearing brawl with New York.UP NEXTOrioles: Yovani Gallardo left Toronto on Thursday afternoon to fly to New York, where he will start Friday night against the Yankees. Gallardo (5-8, 5.63) allowed eight runs, seven earned, in 1 1/3 innings in his previous start at New York, a 14-4 loss on Aug. 26. RHP Michael Pineda (6-11, 4.68) starts for the Yankees.Blue Jays: RHP Marco Estrada will start against the Red Sox on Friday night. Estrada has allowed one run and five hits in 14 innings over his previous two outings. Rick Porcello (22-4, 3.11) starts for the Red Sox. ' ' '