Tammi Piermarini spent the summer balancing her career as a jockey and motherhood, with the scales tilted strongly toward being a mom. Since giving birth to her second child last month, she worked quickly to tip the balance back to her work by riding 10 winners in six racing days at Suffolk Downs, including four on Tuesday's card.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Trainer John Snow is pleased with how his year at Hastings has gone and he's looking forward to spending the winter in northern California. Snow, who won 14 races from 100 starts, arrived at Golden Gate on Monday with 11 horses and plans to ship a couple more there this weekend.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - While U D Ghetto finished seventh last Saturday in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, his Tony Reinstedler-trained stablemate Shermanesque was far removed from the action despite having a legitimate claim to ranking among the top echelon of

2-year-olds.

Shermanesque recently underwent minor surgery, but should have plenty of time to rejoin his class on the Kentucky Derby trail, said Reinstedler.

MIAMI - Who is the best 2-year-old stabled at Calder this season? That argument will be settled right where it should be, on the racetrack, when division leaders Straight Faced, Yesbyjimminy, and Green Vegas all square off for the first time in Saturday's $150,000 Jack Price Juvenile Stakes.

The seven-furlong Jack Price is the most interesting race on a 12-race Florida Million program that includes seven other stakes, all for Florida-breds.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Apparently it's never too soon to start making your Kentucky Derby Day plans. Neil Howard already knows what he would like to be doing on May 5, 2007, and that's placing a saddle on Brilliant before the Grade 1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic on Derby Day.

Rousing Victory beat Dave by a length in the John Henry Stakes last month at the Meadowlands. If either horse is able to duplicate his Meadowlands effort at Aqueduct on Saturday, he should be in the mix of a competitive renewal of the Grade 2 , run at 1 3/8 miles.

Rousing Victory, trained by Phil Serpe, finished second in the Red Smith last year to Grade 1 winner King's Drama. He hadn't run that race back until the John Henry, when he overcame a slow pace and ran down Dave in the final furlong.

Mini Mom goes for her second stakes victory when she heads a field of seven Ohio-bred 2-year-old fillies in the $50,000 Glacial Princess Stakes at one mile at Beulah Park.

Mini Mom scored a one-length victory in the $75,000 John W. Galbreath Stakes going 1 1/16 miles on Oct. 6 at Thistledown. In her most recent start, Mini Mom finished sixth, beaten 10 1/4 lengths, in the $125,000 Jessamine Stakes over the turf at Keeneland on Oct. 26.

Overall, Mini Mom has a record of 2-3-1 from 7 starts, all for trainer Tim Hamm. Mini Mom carries high weight of 122 pounds.

Father John can secure his spot as the leading Indiana-bred 2-year-old Saturday night if he can beat eight rivals in the $40,000 Indiana Futurity at Hoosier Park.

A deceptively easy 1 1/4-length winner of the Hillsdale Stakes at Hoosier last month, Father John figures to be odds-on in the Futurity, a level of support he had from bettors in both the Hillsdale and in his maiden debut, which he won by nearly 10 lengths.

Trainer Donnie Von Hemel has won seven stakes races at Remington Park in the last five weeks, including the last two run at the track. He can make it three in a row on Saturday night, when he starts defending champ D Fine Okie in the $75,000 Lady's Secret.

The 1 1/16-mile race is for fillies and mares and it drew a competitive field of seven, including multiple stakes winner Plaid.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The Maple Leaf Stakes is a source of pleasant memories for trainer Tom O' Keefe, who sent out his pride and joy Wings of Erin to win back-to-back runnings of the Maple Leaf in 1995 and 1996.

But the present will be on O'Keefe's mind at Woodbine Saturday, when he sends out Gold Fish in the $175,000 Maple Leaf, a 1 1/4-mile race for fillies and mares which has attracted a field of seven.

Gold Fish comes into the Maple Leaf off a fourth-place finish in the five-horse Maple Leaf allowance prep, a 1 1/8-mile race here Oct. 20.