OCEANPORT, N.J. - Todd Pletcher already has the top 3- year-old filly in Belmont Stakes winner Rags to Riches. Now the trainer has one of the leading 3- year-old colts in his barn with Any Given Saturday.

Taking the lead in the final eighth of a mile, Any Given Saturday cruised to a 4 1/2-length victory over Hard Spun in the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on Sunday, with Preakness Stakes winner Curlin a disappointing third.

Curlin was sent off as the 4-5 favorite by the crowd of 43,106, but when the big chestnut colt turned for home, he just didn't accelerate the way he had in beating Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense in the Preakness and then finishing a head behind Rags to Riches in the Belmont.

"He ran the worst race of his career and we'll have to find out why," Curlin's trainer Steve Asmussen said.

Any Given Saturday has won five of nine career starts for owners Winstar Farm and Padua Stables, and Pletcher said he expects his colt to return to Monmouth for the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic on Oct. 27.

ETC.: Marchfield came on down the stretch for a one-length victory in the $500,000 Breeders' Stakes, the final jewel of Canadian thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown, in Toronto. . . . Quarter horse jockey Carlos Bautista has begun serving a one-year suspension for using an electronic buzzer on his horse last year at Fairplex Park in Pomona, Calif.