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After winning the Grade 1 Alfred Vanderbilt Handicap with A. P. Indian on Saturday at Saratoga, jockey Joe Bravo came back to Monmouth Park, where he picked up three more graded stakes victories Sunday.The last of Bravos stakes triple came when he guided 5-2 favorite Itsonlyactingdad to a daylight victory in the Grade 3, $110,000 Matchmaker Stakes for fillies and mares on turf.Earlier on the card, Bravo won the Grade 2 Monmouth Cup on heavily favored Bradester and the Grade 3 Oceanport on 5-2 public choice Blacktype. He barely missed a four-win stakes day when Eskenformoney finished a neck short of Genre in the Grade 3 Molly Pitcher.After my day at Saratoga yesterday being able to come down here with the mounts I had is just living a dream, Bravo said. Its fun to deal with good horses and with these horses any jock in the jocks room could have sat on any one of these horses and won the race. Its just nice that it was me.Means Well, a 33-1 outsider led throughout the first mile of the 1-1/8-mile grass race, contested over yielding ground, setting fractions of 48.38 seconds, 1:14.38, and 1:39.87. The 4-year-old Itsonlyactingdad, seventh after the first six furlongs, was closing strongly on the outside through the stretch. She got within a length of the lead with a furlong remaining and finished 1-1/4 lengths clear of runner-up Tammy the Torpedo. It was another 3-3/4 lengths back to Uchenna, who nosed out Bureau de Change for third.The winning time was 1:52.27.It was the first career stakes victory for Itsonlyactingdad, a daughter of Giants Causeway trained by Todd Pletcher for Starlight Racing. Her best previous finish in a stakes came when she was second in last years Belmont Oaks.What makes this filly special is that she did it with so much ease, said Bravo, who was aboard Itsonlyactingdad for the first time. 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Byron Scott Jersey . -- Hunter Smith scored the winner with just 12 seconds remaining in the third period as the Oshawa Generals edged the host Sarnia Sting 5-4 on Friday in Ontario Hockey League action. Seamer Mirwais Ashraf has said that Afghanistans attack will have a key role to play in the upcoming three-ODI series in Bangladesh. The bowlers, led by offspinning allrounder Mohammad Nabi, who claimed 4 for 24, tuned up by dismissing BCB XI for 167 to take a low-scorer.Nabi was assisted by 18-year-old-legspinner Rashid Khan and left-arm seamer Fareed Ahmed, who picked up two wickets each. Fareeds new-ball partner Karim Janant, uncapped at international level, also chipped in with a wicket, helping the visitors defend 233.This was a great preparation for us after spending the last 20 days training in India, Ashraf said. We played positive cricket and gave Bangladesh a tough time. Afghanistans bowling is a key area. It has legspin, left-arm spin, offbreak bowlers and the pace attack. The upcoming matches will be tough.Fareed and Janat are young and talented seam bowlers. They came from the U19s, and have the ability to swing the ball both ways. They deserve to be in the national team.Ashraf himself contributed to the victory, his late cameo - an unbeaten 32 off 19 balls - first lifted the side past 200. He then bowled three tidy overs with his medium-pace.I just play for the team, what they require from me, he said. I try to play according to the condition. Variation is impportant since the pitch wasnt suiting pace bowling.ddddddddddddBCB XIs top-scorer Mosaddek Hossain, who was named in the Bangladesh squad on Thursday, said that Rashid would pose a threat in the ODIs.Rashid bowled accurately and had a lot of variations, he said. I think he was harder to play than the other legspinner. He bowls the googly really well and can stick to bowling at one spot.Mosaddek, who struck five fours and three sixes during his 76, however, drew confidence from reading the conditions well and hoped to justify his call-up to the national squad.Reading the wicket was more important to me today, he said. It was a tough wicket, kept low and there was turn. I think reading the wicket correctly was a big deal to me. A player has more self-belief when he has been selected to play for the country. I am in this mindset, that I have to prove why I am in the national team. I tried to bat till the end but unfortunately, I couldnt manage it.Batting against them [Afghanistan] today has given me some confidence. I dont think anything more will happen than what happened today. I think I will make use of any opportunity that comes in front of me. ' ' '