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.

Churchill Downs announced Thursday morning that overnight purses are being increased 15 percent through the end of the meet, effective with that day’s card, marking the second time in two weeks for a purse hike at the Louisville, Ky., track. Purses already were increased by 10 percent on June 3.

Although tracks owned by Churchill Downs Inc. do not reveal attendance and handle figures except on most major race days, track officials attributed the purse increase to “higher than expected all-sources wagering levels.”

Lil Bit O'Fun went from last to first to win the $200,000 Oliver Stakes at Indiana Downs Wednesday evening.

Jockey Leandro Goncalves kept the 3-year-old son of Langfuhr at the rear of the 10-horse field for the first half-mile of the one-mile turf event. On the final turn, Lil Bit O'Fun was asked for run by Goncalves and he responded with a visually impressive move to overtake the field in upper stretch and wen on to prevail by a length and a quarter.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Buoyed by longshot Hooligan's Delight, Wednesday's pick-six at Belmont Park returned a healthy $308,963 to 11 bettors who were savvy enough to come up with the winning combination. None of the winning tickets was sold ontrack.

There were 995 consolation tickets (5 of 6), each returning $763.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Air Support, who won the Grade 3 Pilgrim Stakes here last fall, returns to Belmont Park for Saturday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Hill Prince Stakes going one mile.

The Hill Prince, restricted to 3-year-olds, drew a field of nine.

The mile may be a little short for Air Support, who needed every inch of the Keeneland stretch to run down Great Mills in taking the Grade 3 Transylvania going 1 1/16 miles on April 8. He then finished a late-running third behind Banned and Close Ally in the Grade 2 American Turf on Derby Day at Churchill Downs.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Conspicuous by its absence from the Stephen Foster Day program is the Fleur de Lis Handicap, a longstanding major race for fillies and mares. Churchill officials put the Fleur de Lis on hiatus for a year, with the intention of bringing it back so as to keep its Grade 2 status. (The North American Graded Stakes Committee allows a race to be skipped one year, but no more, to maintain a grade.)

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Todd Pletcher entered three horses in Saturday’s Grade 1, $250,000 Ogden Phipps Handicap at Belmont Park including the enigmatic Life At Ten, who won this race last year. Pletcher also entered Awesome Maria, who has won three stakes this year, and Super Espresso, winner of the Grade 3 Allaire duPont Distaff in her last start.

The race also drew defending Breeders’ Cup Ladies' Classic winner Unrivaled Belle, graded stakes winner Payton d’Oro and Absinthe Minded.