Muir Beach has won routing and sprinting, on turf and on dirt. Horses don't come much more professional than Muir Beach, who is in peak form for the $50,000 Queen of the Green Handicap at Turf Paradise on Saturday. The mile turf race has a field of eight.

, 3, was a maiden coming into 2004. But she has won four of her last six starts, and comes in Saturday off a smart win at 3-5 in the 7 1/2-furlong Chandler Handicap at Turf Paradise Nov. 19.

Since she won that race going away, and since she has won before at a mile, the distance Saturday is obviously within her reach.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Norm McKnight has come full circle.

McKnight, once a prominent Standardbred trainer-driver, switched breeds in 1995, moving into the world of Thoroughbred racing.

In 1999 McKnight went out on his own and has forged a successful training career through the past six seasons, winning 122 races with stakes winners Dawson's Legacy, Brite Adam, and Slightlymorelikely among his success stories.

And while he's certainly not about to sever his connection with the Thoroughbreds, McKnight, 48, has begun moonlighting as a harness driver.

Sea Dub will cut back to the distance of his last two wins Saturday night in the $40,000 Buffalo Bayou Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park.

The 1 1/16-mile turf race drew a field of nine, including multiple stakes winner Crowned King and Late Expectations, who won the $50,000 Richard King Handicap last weekend at Sam Houston.

Multiple-stakes-placed Marketable leads a field of nine Ohio-bred 2-year-old fillies, all seeking their first stakes victory, in the $40,000 Glacial Princess Stakes at Beulah Park.

Marketable rallied to finish third in the 1 1/16-mile John W. Galbreath at Thistledown on Oct. 9, making her the only member of the mile and 70-yard Glacial Princess field to be stakes placed around two turns. Four of the fillies are maidens and the other five, including Marketable, have only a maiden win.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Kerrobert and March With Me, both possibilities for next year's Queen's Plate, are among the contenders in Saturday's $137,500 Display Stakes at Woodbine.

The 1 1/16-mile Display is one of two 2-year-old stakes on the card, along with the $104,000 Sunny's Halo, a 6 1/2-furlong sprint for Canadian-breds.

CHICAGO - In winter racing at Hawthorne, sharp form can take a horse further than inherent class, which is one reason Coping looks so good in the featured sixth race here Saturday.

Coping was one of seven horses entered in the feature, a third-level allowance with a $35,000 claiming option carded for 1 1/16 miles on dirt. Coping has five wins and doesn't qualify under the race's allowance condition, so he and two others, Road Town and He's Hammered, run for the tag.

Water Cannon, the sharpest 3-year-old based in Maryland during the spring, returns from a five-month layoff to face the sizzling shipper Play Bingo in Saturday's $100,000 Northern Dancer Stakes at Pimlico.

A 1 1/8-mile race, the Northern Dancer is restricted to Maryland-bred 3-year-olds.

Jayhawk Janet, an easy winner in her last three starts, and Lets Just Do It, coming off an impressive stakes victory, head a full field of fillies and mares in the $50,000 Autumn Stakes at Charles Town.

A 4-year-old, Jayhawk Janet is 2 for 2 at the seven-furlong distance of the Autumn and will be making her stakes debut.

Lets Just Do It returned from a two-month layoff to win the seven-furlong City of Ranson by two lengths in early October and will be making her first start since then.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Everyone should do so poorly. Perfect Drift hasn't won a race this year, but even if he falls short again Friday in the Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs, he could still go over the million-dollar earnings mark for the year by posting yet another second-place finish.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Eurosilver is moving by leaps and bounds into the Clark Handicap on Friday at Churchill Downs. The colt is jumping into so many new categories that not even his trainer, Carl Nafzger, knows what to expect.

is a 3-year-old who will be facing older rivals for the first time in his career. He is making his second start following a lengthy layoff. He is making his first start around two turns in nearly 14 months. And he is stepping up into Grade 2 company after last competing in an ungraded race.