LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Stepping into the Churchill Downs winner's circle after gleefully watching his dream horse run to victory, owner Harry Aleo announced to no one in particular: "The Fog is back."

Indeed, by virtue of his 1 1/4-length triumph Saturday in the $131,450 , a race that snapped his two-race losing streak, Lost in the Fog flashed the form that made him the Eclipse Award-winning sprinter of 2005. Ridden by Russell Baze, Lost in the Fog had a perfect trip, gliding past early leader Exciting Metro and then holding off Kelly's Landing to win the Grade 3 Aristides.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Todd Pletcher maintains Wait a While is a better filly on turf than on dirt. Maybe someday he'll get to prove that theory right.

Saturday was not the day, as the , scheduled for the grass, was rained off to a sloppy main track at Belmont. And, as she did here last fall in the off-the-turf Miss Grillo Stakes, Wait a While galloped to an easy front-running victory.

Grass, at last!

The Meadowlands Racetrack hosts the first of three all-turf cards Monday afternoon. First post is 1:10 p.m. for the eight-race program, topped by the $60,000 Trenton Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.

Gates open at 11 a.m. and grandstand admission is free.

It helps to have a spare turf course available in the ongoing absence of a grass course at Monmouth Park.

Monmouth is installing a new course as part of a $30 million overhaul for when it hosts the 2007 Breeders' Cup.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Dale Romans wishes Joint Effort could run all her races at Churchill Downs. Having once again shown her fondness for her home track by racing to victory Saturday in the $167,850 , Joint Effort may make her next start in the Grade 1 Test Stakes at Saratoga, "but I wish it was here," Romans joked afterward.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Proposed survived a race-long battle on the front and a late threat from favored Star Parade to win the $168,000 at Hollywood Park on Saturday.

MIAMI - The backers and connections of Lord Robyn had to be shaking their heads after he turned his head at the same instant starter Bobby Vaughn sprung the latch

for Saturday's $45,000 Blazing Sword Stakes. As a result, the usually swift-footed Lord Robyn broke well behind the rest of the field while apparently losing all chance in the overnight turf stakes.

Only a hard rain in Louisville, Ky., kept Equal Opportunity from running in a grass race Friday at Churchill Downs. Off the turf at Churchill, Equal Opportunity found himself on a van to Arlington Park. Once there, he made short work of just four opponents Saturday in the Awad Stakes, which scratched down from eight horses to five.

Before Saturday, Fin had raced on dirt one time, finishing fifth in a race in Deauville, France, on Aug. 11, 2004. Her second dirt attempt went much better.

Fin, under Ramon Dominguez, ran down favored Dance Fee in midstretch and pulled away to a two-length victory in the $100,000 John W. Rooney Memorial at Delaware, run at 1 1/8 miles on the main track after rain washed it from the turf course. Dance Fee held second in the scratch-shortened field of five, with Little Buttercup third.

Royal Descent and jockey Erick Rodriquez took advantage of a fierce pace duel between favorites Somethinaboutbetty and Christmas Stocking to score a 24-1 upset in the $75,000 Pearl Necklace Stakes at Pimlico.

Naissance Royale, the favored New York invader, closed widest under Kent Desormeaux to capture the Grade 2, $308,900 at Woodbine.

Ambitious Cat, last year's champion turf female in Canada, finished second at 5-2 after splitting rivals nearing the eighth pole. Kabul, a 38-1 shot, was another 2 1/2 lengths back in third after hitting the front in midstretch of the 1 1/16-mile turf event.

Over a course labeled soft, Black Rock Road set moderate fractions before fading to fourth in the six-horse field. Ballroom Deputy was scratched.