LOUISVILLE, Ky. - One thing is clear: Peace River Lady likes the Churchill Downs turf course.

When Peace River Lady raced twice in a 17-day span here in the spring, she ran two of the best races of her career, winning maiden and entry-level allowance races on May 10 and 26. She returned in June to run second over the course in the Grade 3 Regret.

So when a full field of fillies and mares go postward in Monday's feature at Churchill, horesplayers will certainly be aware of how well Peace River Lady performed six months ago.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Skylar May attempts to parlay a sharp recent allowance score into her first stakes win on Sunday, when she meets many of the same rivals she just beat in the $10,000 Diane Kem Handicap for fillies and mares at six furlongs.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A couple of sharp 2-year-old fillies could have the edge over four colts and geldings in the feature Sunday, a $50,000 optional race at 6 1/2 furlongs.

The fillies Vegas Folly and Proactive are each coming off a relatively easy win in which they earned identical 67 Beyer Figures, a number far superior than those earned by the other horses in the field.

Delta Downs in Vinton, La., was not allowed to simulcast its races out of state on Thursday night, its season opener, because no contract had been signed between the track and the Louisiana Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Julie Krone rode the first winner of her week-old comeback on Thursday at Hollywood Park. And the victory could not have come any easier.

Krone, a member of racing's Hall of Fame and the world's winningest female rider with 3,546 winners, rode Jade Vixen ($3.80) to a comfortable six-length win against maiden claimers in the eighth race.

The victory was the first success of a comeback that had been several months in the making. "I got a little teary-eyed when I pulled up," she said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The majority of Dat You Miz Blue's wins have come on the dirt, but the 5-year-old Cure the Blues mare, who first ran on the turf earlier this year, has some solid efforts on the grass.

With turf experience on her side, Dat You Miz Blue seeks her first stakes win on the grass in Sunday's $100,000 Perfect Arc at Aqueduct.

The one-mile Perfect Arc, restricted to the progeny of New York-based stallions, has attracted a field of 11, including last year's winner and runner-up, Wake Up Kiss and Lovely Amanda.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Ongoing negotiations with an insurance company has pushed the potential launch date of a less expensive worker's compensation program for California trainers from Nov. 15 to Nov. 22 at the earliest, according to a top racing official.

The new policies will be administered by American International Group, and were first presented to trainers in September. There have been repeated delays in the last three months.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Roger Attfield won the 2000 running of the Glorious Song Stakes with Poetically, who went on to receive the Sovereign Award as Canada's champion 2-year-old filly.

And while Attfield doesn't expect Sunday's renewal of the Glorious Song to lead to similar honors for either of his two entrants, he does have high long-term hopes for both Smart Angel and Neblina, who are in a field of six for the seven-furlong feature.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Aside from saddling Malcoha, a 10-year-old gelding, to three consecutive wins in the summer, Wilf Jones

hasn't had too much to cheer about this year.

Going into the final four days of the meet the trainer had recorded just six wins from 53 starts, a far cry from 2000 when he won 24 times in 92 starts and reached fifth place in the standings here.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Beautiful America's only loss came against males in the New York Breeders' Futurity in September. Her record against fillies is a perfect 3 for 3.

Sunday at Aqueduct, Beautiful America goes after her third consecutive stakes win in the $125,000 Fifth Avenue for 2-year-old fillies. The six-furlong Fifth Avenue is one of four races on Sunday's card for the progeny of New York-based stallions.