The Bruce Levine-trained Roaring Lion just outlasted a closing Wildcat Brief to post a narrow win in the at Monmouth Park on Monday.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Cornelio Velasquez attempted to get Rightly So off the pace in Monday's Grade 3 at Belmont Park. But the 4-year-old filly wanted no part of it.

Smart filly.

Combining her strongest weapons - her natural speed and her tenacity - Rightly So scored a front-running, head victory over even-money favorite Qualia in the $150,000 Bed o' Roses. It was 3 1/4 lengths back to McVictory in third.

"I didn't send her," Velasquez said. "I tried to get her back, but she ran off and I let her go."

The Florida-based mare Cherokee Queen registered the biggest victory of her 21-race career Monday when she drew clear in the stretch to capture the $200,000

at Philadelphia Park.

Ridden by Julien Leparoux, Cherokee Queen ($6) sat about a length behind pacesetter Talike Me through the first six furlongs in 1:11.56. Cherokee Queen drew even just past the quarter pole, open up a two-length lead with a furlong remaining and was three lengths in front of Chestoria at the wire after completing 1 1/16 miles on firm turf in 1:41.33.

Haynesfield earned a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 105 for his 2 3/4-length victory in Saturday's Grade 2 Suburban Handicap, but his connections are at least a week away from deciding what to do next with the New York-bred colt.

The Grade 1 Whitney Handicap at Saratoga on Aug. 7 would have to be considered a possible spot, but Toby Sheets, the Belmont Park-based assistant to trainer Steve Asmussen, said Monday that discussions on where the horse would run next won't be had until after the colt works back next Monday.

ELMONT, N.Y. - With the unofficial start to the second half of the season less than a month away, many of the locally based 3-year-olds began picking up their training over the weekend in preparation for races such as the Haskell Invitational and Jim Dandy.

On Sunday, about 3 1/2 hours apart, Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver and Belmont Stakes winner Drosselmeyer - both owned by WinStar Farm - put in workouts over the main track. Also on Sunday, up-and-coming 3-year-olds Trappe Shot and Friend or Foe breezed.

INGLEWOOD, Calif.- Hollywood Park has cancelled its live racing program for Thursday because of insufficient entries, the third day of racing lost under such circumstances at the spring-summer meeting.

Live racing will resume on Friday evening, with an eight-race program. The track will be open for simulcasting on Thursday.

The draw for Thursday's program was scheduled for Sunday. When the track failed to attract enough horses to conduct racing, the draw was postponed until Monday and then abandoned.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The Nick Gonzalez stable is a study in contrasts, a fact made most apparent by Big Red Mike's victory in Sunday's Queen's Plate.

Participating in the Queen's Plate represented a pinnacle for Gonzalez, who has a large stable at Fort Erie while his wife, Martha, runs the show here at Woodbine.

But while the horses were heading out to the track for the Queen's Plate, Gonzalez asked his son and assistant, Nick Jr., to text a staff member at Fort Erie to find out how Talk to Da Manager had made out in the day's final race.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - While Big Red Mike will be heading down to Fort Erie for the July 25 Prince of Wales, the second jewel in the Canadian Triple Crown, the post-Queen's Plate roll call includes few others planning to take that route.

Sam-Son Farm's trio of Hotep, Giant's Tomb, and Dark Cloud Dancer all will be considered for the Prince of Wales, as will Mobthewarrior.

Hotep and Giant's Tomb, the Queen's Plate's second- and fourth-place finishers, both won on the dirt at the Fair Grounds this winter, and the Prince of Wales is run over 1 3/16 miles on that surface.

MIAMI - The homecoming of old friend D' Funnybone and full fields in the afternoon's two main events, the Grade 1 Princess Rooney Handicap and Grade 2 Smile Handicap, should make Saturday's Summit of Speed program one of the most attractive in the 11-year history of Calder Race Course's marquee event.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Jockey Mike Smith is sensing a change in Zenyatta in recent months. She seems to be more willing to wait later in the stretch before unleashing the explosive kick that has led to 17 consecutive wins and two champion female titles.

Zenyatta, 6, won her 17th race in the Grade 1 Vanity Handicap on June 13 by catching St Trinians in the final 50 yards. Monday, in her second work since that race, Zenyatta caught stablemate Theodora in the final 50 yards, finishing five furlongs in 1:01.20.