Martha's Music improved to 2-for-2 in stakes races at Laurel Park, winning the Grade III $100,000 Anne Arundel Stakes for 3-year-old fillies yesterday.

This summer, the horse trained by John Servis took the $150,000 Martha Washington Breeders' Cup over the same surface.

Yesterday, jockey Stewart Elliott was unhurried early in the 11-horse field as Pass The Virtue and Shop Till You Drop set an honest pace. When they turned for home, Martha's Music rolled down the stretch and won by three-quarters of a length over Pass The Virtue. Shop Till You Drop held on for third.

The daughter of Sultry Song covered the 1 1/8 -mile test in 1 minute, 50.84 seconds and paid $22 to win. It was the fourth victory of the year for the Philadelphia Park-based filly who has been in the money eight times in 10 starts this year.

"I had plenty of horse and wasn't too concerned about the two horses in the front," Elliott said. "When I asked her to run at the turn, she had more than enough."

Added Servis: "Our main goal all year was to get a graded stakes win, and we pointed to this race after winning the Martha Washington. She's maturing a lot and gets better with each race. When you call on her, she gives you all she's got."

To The Queen, with Hall of Fame rider Jerry Bailey, finished fourth, 2 1/2 lengths behind the third-place finisher.

"She really wasn't getting a good hold of the surface," said Bailey, who is chasing Mike Smith's record for most stakes wins in a year. "She was doing a lot of moving around but not really going anywhere."

Bailey has 64 added-money wins this year, three behind Smith's 1994 record.