ARCADIA, Calif. - Top of Our Game can either salvage the California Cup card for trainer Carla Gaines and owner John Harris, or add icing to the cake when she runs Saturday in race 7, the $150,000 Cal Cup Distaff.

ARCADIA, Calif. - For most of the year, Super High has made her mark on turf, winning three stakes against both statebreds and open company. Saturday, in the $150,000 California Cup Matron at Santa Anita, the 3-year-old Super High can prove she does not need a grass surface to find the winner's circle.

Facing a modest field, Super High will go favored in the Matron, run over 1 1/16 miles on dirt. In her last start on the main track in April, Super High finished second in the Melair Stakes on Gold Rush Day at Hollywood Park.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - A week after the country's best younger horses were showcased in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile in Chicago, another group of promising 2-year-olds will seek the limelight in Saturday's $100,000-added Nashua at Aqueduct.

A competitive field of eight colts entered the Grade 3 Nashua, a mile dirt race. Among the starters are the Cowdin winner and runner-up, Boston Bull and Roaring Fever, and the undefeated Added Edge.

How do you treat a horse with a ton of back class who's returning from a long layoff and prepping for a bigger target down the road?

That's the question handicappers must answer when deciding whether to support Red Bullet at a short price or try to beat him in Saturday's $55,000 Foggy Road Stakes at Delaware Park.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Looking for a winner in Saturday's $150,000 Knickerbocker Handicap at Aqueduct? Then you better study hard.

The Grade 2 Knickerbocker, a 1 1/8-mile grass race, is a wide-open affair. Nine entered the main body of the Grade 2 Knickerbocker. Four horses are entered for main-track only.

North East Bound is the 117-pound highweight and the most accomplished member of the field, but he has lost his last three starts and could be a vulnerable favorite.

Jose Velez Jr. rides North East Bound, who looms the main speed.

ARCADIA, Calif. - What is racing coming to, anyway? For one glorious day each autumn at Santa Anita, the answer is encouraging.

The 13th California Cup, highlight of the Oak Tree meet at Santa Anita, is offered Saturday in a celebration of California racing that has become the blueprint for statebred racing festivals. It's a party, with 10 races for Cal-breds with purses of more than $1.3 million, full and competitive fields, and something for every bettor and every horseman.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Sure, winning for the first time in more than a year was great. But for Shane Sellers, the mundane aspects of being a jockey again are the greatest joys of his latest comeback.

"Just being back in the jocks' room with all the guys, that's special," said Sellers. "It's what I've done my whole life, and it's what I missed the most when I was gone."

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It didn't take very long for David Forster to get the attention of Kentucky racing fans.

Forster, who had never raced in Kentucky after a training career of more than 40 years in the West, sent out Youcan'ttakeme to win an allowance race on the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup undercard at Keeneland Oct. 12.

Now Forster is back for more, although this time at Churchill Downs. Youcan'ttakeme is one of eight 2-year-old fillies entered in the Saturday feature, the $100,000 Pocahontas Stakes.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - In most years, Mobil would lock up Canadian champion juvenile honors with a win in Saturday's Coronation Futurity, an important nine-furlong race for Canadian-breds.

But because of the triumphs of his high-profile stablemate Wando and the unbeaten Added Edge, it will probably take a Herculean effort for him to have a chance at the Sovereign award.

CHICAGO - Mystery Giver made his first start a year and a half ago at Hawthorne. Last fall, he turned a corner winning the Autobot Stakes there. Mystery Giver will be at another crossroads at Hawthorne on Saturday when he faces nine opponents in the Robert Carey Memorial.

A strong performance would build on Mystery Giver's recent win in the $100,000 Sea O' Erin at Arlington, and would send him south for the winter with a full head of steam.