When trainer Troy Young is asked to recount the best horses he ever has trained, B.J.'s Delta Pro is always one of the first names he mentions. She won 7 of the first 8 races of her career by a combined 35 lengths and earned $249,387 in all.

B.J.'s Delta Pro, who won five stakes races, went on to become a broodmare, and Young now trains her best offspring, the gelding J.D.'s Bayou Blue.

J.D.'s Bayou Blue has won 2 stakes in his last 3 starts, and despite moving into open company on Saturday, he is the one to beat in the $50,000 Alliance at Louisiana Downs.

Oh So Easy appears perfectly spotted to win her second consecutive race in Saturday's $75,000 Rose DeBartolo Memorial Stakes at Thistledown.

A 5-year-old Take That Step mare, Oh So Easy comes into the nine-furlong DeBartolo off an impressive 5 1/4-length win in the Merry Time Stakes here June 18. She beat three of the seven Ohio-bred rivals she will face Saturday in the Merry Time.

Oh So Easy has carved out a 10-4-3 record from 29 career starts and has earnings of $293,970.

Graysideofjustice heads a field of 11, including an entry, in Saturday's $40,000 ITBOA Sales Futurity at Prairie Meadows.

The 5 1/2-furlong futurity is restricted to horses who passed through the sales ring here at the the Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association 2-year-olds in training sale in April.

Graysideofjustice is the most impressive of the four winners entered in the futurity, having scored a convincing six-length victory over maiden special weight company here on June 14 to earn a field-topping Beyer Speed Figure of 62.

AUBURN, Wash. - Full Force Gale drops a notch in search of his first win at the meeting in Saturday's best race at Emerald Downs, a six-furlong event for $12,500 to $15,000 claimers that has drawn a field of seven.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Knight's Covenant, the 25-1 winner of the June 18 Alberta Derby, looks for his second straight stakes victory when he faces eight other 3-year-olds at Northlands Park in Saturday's one-mile Ky Alta.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Slewpast will probably be the favorite in the $40,000 Liberation at Hastings on Saturday, but she could be vulnerable in the 1 1/16-mile feature, which drew seven 3-year-old fillies.

Slewpast, trained by Robbie Anderson, is a three-time stakes winner, and in her first try going around three turns, she finished second to Regal Pusher in the Dikeakos Architects Mademoiselle Handicap on June 17. The Liberation should shape up completely differently from the Mademoiselle, though.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The quirky Mona Rose seeks to repeat last year's success in the $328,500 Dance Smartly Handicap on Saturday at Woodbine.

Mona Rose notched her first stakes in the 2004 Dance Smartly, at a time when she began to blossom for trainer Earl Barnett. In her June 4 seasonal debut in the Grade 2 Nassau Stakes, she finished a troubled third in her first start under jockey Todd Kabel.

The allowance prep for the Dance Smartly failed to fill, and Barnett said he's concerned that Mona Rosa has had just one start this year.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Run the 2005 Round Table Stakes 10 times, and you might come up with six different winners. If parity is what you look for in a horse race, tune into Arlington Park on Saturday afternoon.

Nine horses were entered in the 1 1/8-mile, $100,000 Round Table, Arlington's premier dirt race for 3-year-olds. It's a nice number with decent quality considering these midsummer months are cluttered with various derbies throwing money around like clover.

As for picking the winner, well, that is another story altogether.

As a deep closer, Naughty New Yorker needs a fast pace to make his late kick effective. He got an ideal setup three weeks ago in the Mike Lee Stakes, but faces the prospect of a different pace scenario and far more traffic in Saturday's $150,000 New York Derby at Finger Lakes.

The 1 1/16-mile derby, restricted to New York-bred 3-year-olds, is the second leg of the OTBs' Big Apple Triple. If Naughty New York Yorker can add the derby to his Mike Lee score, he would be in line to collect a $250,000 bonus by winning the Albany Handicap at Saratoga on Aug. 24.

MIAMI - Trainer Marty Wolfson and jockey Eddie Castro should have themselves a good day Saturday at Calder - all within a 30-minute span.

Wolfson and Castro will team up with prohibitive favorite Pampered Princess in the $75,000 Nancy's Glitter Handicap in the seventh race and then return with Covincing, who appears to have optional claiming company over a similar barrel in race 8.