SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Squirtle Squirt proved he's back atop the ranks of 3-year-old sprinters with an impressive wire-to-wire win in the grade 1, $200,000 King's Bishop at Saratoga.

	Squirtle Squirt went wire-to-wire for the win.

Squirtle Squirt, the favorite in the field of eight trained by the red-hot Bobby Frankel, set blazing fractions of :22 and :44.32 while clear on the lead.

The winner was seriously challenged only once in the seven furlong event when second-choice City Zip came to him at the top of the stretch. However, Squirtle Squirt found another gear, turned on the juice, and spurted clear through the stretch to win by 3 1/4 lengths in a time of 1:21.97.

City Zip, trained by Linda Rice and ridden by Jorge Chavez, was coming off three straight wins, but could not match Squirtle Squirt and ended up tiring to third behind late-running Illusioned under Pat Day.

Squirtle Squirt paid $5.00 to win.