ELMONT, N.Y. - Once trainer Greg Gilchrist and owner Harry Aleo decided this spring to bypass the allure of the Triple Crown to focus strictly on sprints for Lost in the Fog, the Breeders' Cup Sprint became the ultimate year-end goal. Saturday, Lost in the Fog will get a dress rehearsal.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Jimmy Jerkens suffered some anxious moments during the running of the Grade 2 Dixie on Preakness Day at Pimlico when his horse Artie Schiller bobbled twice in the stretch.

While racing in tight quarters on the inside, Artie Schiller stumbled at the eighth pole and again at the sixteenth pole and wound up losing by a nose to Cool Conducter.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Bobby Frankel has decided to make an equipment change when Mass Media runs in Saturday's $200,000 True North Breeders' Cup Handicap at Belmont Park.

will race with blinkers off for the first time in his 11-race career. Frankel said Mass Media has trained well without blinkers and would like to see him relax during the early stages of his races.

Mass Media is among 12 entered in a wide-open edition of the Grade 2 True North.

In his last start, Mass Media finished fifth in the Grade 1 Carter on April 9 at Aqueduct, his third loss of the year.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Bobby Frankel will run eight horses in seven races on Saturday's 13-race card at Belmont Park. If he only wins one, it will most likely be the Grade 2, $300,000 Just a Game Breeders' Cup Handicap.

Frankel will send out Intercontinental, who won this race last year and who may just be the best female turf miler in the country. At this distance and over firm turf, Intercontinental appears to have an edge over Grade 1 winners Wonder Again and Riskaverse, who both make their seasonal debuts in this race.

Monmouth Park will offer three competitive stakes races on Saturday. Sprinters meet in two of those events, the $60,000 Coronado's Quest, at six furlongs for 3-year-olds, and the $65,000 Longfellow, a six-furlong race for 3-year-olds and upward. The $60,000 Battlefield Stakes, for 3-year-olds and upward, will be run at 1 1/8 miles over the turf course.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Five of the six juvenile fillies in Thursday's $81,000 were unbeaten going in, but only one, Fifth Avenue, remained perfect after posting a nose decision over 27-1 outsider Blissful Trip in the five-furlong dash.

Fifth Avenue, a debut winner for trainer Mark Hennig earlier at Belmont Park's spring/summer meet, stalked pacesetter Stolen Prayer from close range around the turn through an opening quarter of 21.92 seconds, reached the front coming to midstretch after a half-mile in 45.46 seconds, and determinedly staved off Blissful Trip to the wire.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The odd distance of 7 1/2 furlongs for Saturday's $75,000 Ack Ack Handicap at Hollywood Park is the ideal middle ground for top contenders Congrats and Ender's Shadow.

Congrats, who in his last start finished fifth in the $6 million Dubai World Cup March 26, was not ready for the $750,000 Stephen Foster Handicap over 1 1/8 miles at Churchill Downs on June 18, trainer Richard Mandella said.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Saturday's $350,000 at Hollywood Park has been the goal for Red Fort all year.

A win in an allowance race at Santa Anita in March and a runner-up finish in the Grade 3 Inglewood Handicap here in April were only the prologue to a summer campaign that owner Walter Swinburn and trainer Neil Drysdale hope will include the Eddie Read Handicap at Del Mar and the Arlington Million at Arlington Park.

"That's the plan," Drysdale said. "Whether he can execute it is another matter."

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Carl Nafzger is excited about what the future may hold for Atlas Valley. And as long as Summerly isn't part of that immediate future, Nafzger is content.

With Summerly not entered, figures as one of the favorites Saturday in the $150,000 Dogwood Breeders' Cup, a Grade 3 race in which Summerly had been scheduled to make her first start since her two-length victory in the May 6 Kentucky Oaks.

ALBANY, Calif. - Graded stakes winners Skipaslew, Smoocher, and Yougottawanna meet in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Berkeley Handicap at Golden Gate Fields.

On the original Golden Gate stakes schedule, the 1 1/16-mile Berkeley was listed as a $75,000 stakes race. But when racing secretary Sean Greely confirmed that the race would be able to retain its graded status, he rearranged stakes purses to enable the Berkeley to meet the $100,000 minimum to qualify as a graded race.

As a result, the Berkeley drew a talented field of seven.