INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Zardana, who beat 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra in the New Orleans Ladies in March, is likely to make her next start in the $250,000 Ogden Phipps Stakes at Belmont Park on June 12, owner Arnold Zetcher said.

Zetcher said a start in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps Stakes gives Zardana a chance at a leading race for older fillies and mares on dirt and keeps her away from Zenyatta, the undefeated two-time champion who is scheduled to make her next start in the $250,000 Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park on June 13.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - If you like playing horses for courses, Monday's turf feature at Louisiana Downs offers plenty of opportunities. No fewer than eight of the 10 veteran claimers have won over the local lawn and are hoping that a homecoming of sorts will reverse some marginal recent form.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- If Spaghetti Mouse is going to get back on track and be one of the top stakes horses at Hastings again, he is going to have to run a big race on Sunday. The all-time leading money-earning British Columbia-bred with over $893,000 in earnings, Spaghetti Mouse didn't win a race last year. The way Sunday's race shapes up, a 1 1/16-mile classified allowance race for 3-year-olds and up, he should win if he is anywhere near his old self.

One heavy favorite delivered, but two others failed to even satisfy show bettors in Friday night's stakes tripleheader at Penn National Race Course.

Liam's Dream ($2.40), taking a steep drop in class after winning the Grade 3 Cicada in March, cruised to a 2 1/2-length win in the $75,000 Wonders Delight Stakes for Pennsylvania-bred 3-year-old fillies.

Trainer Derek Ryan offered no alibis for Schoolyard Dreams in the Preakness.

Ryan said he thought Schoolyard Dreams, the tough-luck loser of the Tampa Bay Derby, had a shot in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown. Instead, Schoolyard Dreams got shot down - finishing ninth behind Lookin At Lucky.

"He got beat," Ryan said. "No excuse. He made a little move and flattened out. You take your ball and go home. That's the worst race he's run all year."

Schoolyard Dreams will now be pointed to the Grade 3 Pegasus Stakes here on June 19.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodbine's decision to cut back the Connaught Cup from 1 1/16 miles to seven furlongs has had a predictable impact on the composition of the field for Sunday's renewal.

And among those who will benefit from the shortening of the Grade 3, $150,000 turf race is Grand Adventure, a Kentucky-bred bred 4-year-old who is trained by Mark Frostad.

"If it was still run at a mile and a sixteenth, he wouldn't have been in it," said Frostad, who trains the homebred Grand Adventure for Sam-Son Farm.

Awesome Gem drew a prime post for the Grade 3, $300,000 Lone Star Park Handicap when entries for the 1 1/16-mile race were taken on Friday. He will break from post 3 in a field of eight in what is the richest of seven stakes making up the Lone Star Million Day card on Monday.

"I like the inside post," said Craig Dollase, who trains Awesome Gem. "He'll save some ground and make his run. And he's been lucky with post 3. He won the Hawthorne Gold Cup with post 3. Hopefully, we can continue that."

The decision to cancel Wednesday's racing because of insufficient entries is seen by racing secretary Martin Panza as an isolated incident, and unlikely to occur again through the remainder of the spring-summer meeting, which runs until July 18.

"Anything is possible, but I wouldn't think so," he said of the possibility of future cancellations. "At some point, some of these stables that haven't started any 2-year-olds, they'll have to run."

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -Watching Gallant Son rally from fifth to win his first graded stakes in the Grade 3 Inglewood Handicap at Hollywood Park made a believer of the colt's trainer, Frank Lucarelli.

In the early months of the year, Lucarelli wanted to test Gallant Son in an important turf race. The win by 1 3/4 lengths proved that Gallant Son fits in big grass races such as Monday's $250,000 Shoemaker Mile.

"Months ago, I wasn't sure he belongs in a Grade 1 turf race," he said on Friday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Hot Dixie Chick will be facing older fillies and mares for the first time when she starts Monday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Winning Colors Stakes at Churchill Downs.

The 3-year-old Hot Dixie Chick was one of the most precocious fillies in her class, winning the Grade 3 Schuylerville and Grade 1 Spinaway last summer at Saratoga. But her connections declined to run her over the synthetic surface at Santa Anita last fall in the Breeders' Cup, and more than six months had elapsed when she returned to win the Prima Donna Stakes in March at Oaklawn Park easily.