ELMONT, N.Y. – Unrivaled Belle was denied her second straight victory in the La Troienne Stakes at Churchill Downs when she was outfinished by the champion Blind Luck. Unrivaled Belle’s connections hope to be denied a second straight runner-up finish in the $250,000 Ogden Phipps Handicap when she looks to one-better her position from this race last year against five quality opponents in the Grade 1 race at Belmont Park on Saturday.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Funny how the pecking order in a barn can change in a hurry.

Prior to last weekend, Louisiana Derby winner Pants On Fire was a leading 3-year-old for Kelly Breen, the private trainer for George and Lori Hall.

Then Ruler On Ice upset the Belmont Stakes applecart at 24-1.

Suddenly, the barn had a new hero.

“It’s all about winning,” Breen said.

And Pants On Fire now has some catching up to do, starting Saturday in the Grade 3, $200,000 Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park.

At first glance, it might appear that trainer Mike Matz is holding a couple of aces for Saturday’s $75,000 John Rooney Memorial Stakes at Delaware Park with a South American import who finished one length shy of winning a Group 1 race last summer and a horse-for-the-course who has registered 4 wins and a close second in 5 starts over the local turf course.

Chamberlain Bridge, who has yet to display the same form in three starts this season that carried him to victory in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint last fall, looks to regroup over a turf course where he is unbeaten in two starts when he returns to suburban Philadelphia for Saturday’s inaugural running of the $200,000 Parx Dash Handicap at Parx Racing.

Penn National Racecourse in Grantville, Penn., will drop its Monday and Tuesday night programs and switch to a Wednesday-through-Saturday schedule beginning in September, the track announced.

Penn added the Monday and Tuesday night programs at the start of this year in the hope of boosting its presence in the national full-card simulcast market. In a statement, the track’s vice president of racing, Mark Loewe, said that “the move didn’t generate the interest we had hoped for.”

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Majesticality will appreciate the move to a middle distance when he makes his second start of the year in a first-level optional $50,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up at Hastings on Saturday. The 1 1/16-mile feature drew seven horses and goes as race 7 on the eight-race card that begins at 3:20 p.m. Pacific. The change from the usual 1:20 post time is to attract fans that will be going to the Vancouver Whitecaps soccer game that begins at Empire Fields at 7 p.m.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Impossible Time, Canada’s champion older female of 2010, is scheduled to make her seasonal bow in Saturday’s $100,000 Zadracarta.

The Zadracarta, which goes over seven furlongs on turf, is an overnight stakes and attracted a rather surprisingly large field of 13 Ontario-foaled fillies.

And, the field also has one unofficial member, as Impossible Time was declared to be in foal to Speightstown about seven weeks ago and will be looking to add to her credentials before calling it a career late this summer.

Trainer Greg Tracy likes his chances in the $50,000 Western Handicap for 3-year-olds at Northlands Park on Saturday. He just isn’t sure which horse he prefers – Bond James Bond or Dollarwaitnonadime – in the six-furlong sprint that drew eight horses.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Ralph Biamonte won last Saturday’s Bold Ruckus Stakes with the steady Citius. He will try to keep the ball rolling this Saturday at Woodbine when he sends out Banner Bill in the $150,000 Victoria Stakes, a five-furlong dash for 2-year-olds.

Terry Wallace, who for the past 37 years has been the track announcer at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., has retired from that position. Wallace plans to continue his affiliation with Oaklawn, which opens again in January, in other areas.