LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Maybe it has something to do with a parent's day. When Red Antics notched the only triumph of his 13-race career, it was on Father's Day last year. Sunday, when hundreds of families gather at Churchill Downs to celebrate Mother's Day, Red Antics might very well come through with his second triumph.

MIAMI - has taken his owner-breeders, Al and Barbara Smollin, to racetracks all over the United states during a career that has seen him win three Grade 1 races and earn just under $2.5 million. But the Smollins and their star have yet to visit Chicago, a situation that will be rectified next Saturday, when Sir Bear should be among the favorites in the $500,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup.

ELMONT, N.Y. - A year ago Sunday, looked awesome winning a preliminary allowance race by seven lengths at Belmont Park. Less than three months later, Victory Ride became a Grade 1 winner in the Test Stakes.

Unfortunately, Victory Ride broke a leg during a workout shortly after the Test, and her future as a racehorse was very much in doubt.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Madame Roar rolled into Woodbine six weeks ago from her Maryland base and embarrassed the locals with a front-running, six-length victory in the five-furlong La Voyageuse Handicap.

Madame Roar will try to turn the trick again, this time going 6 1/2 furlongs, in Sunday's $162,450 George C. Hendrie Handicap, a Grade 3 race for fillies and mares.

AUBURN, Wash. - Sunday's $45,000 Federal Way Handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs will provide the setting for round two of what figures to be a lengthy series of confrontations between Lasting Code and Strong Credentials, who currently rank as the top two 3-year-old fillies in the Northwest.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - John Simms is the latest trainer to join Team Schickedanz.

Simms, 53, will saddle Hugs for Terry on Sunday at Fort Erie. The filly will be his first starter for Bruno Schickedanz, who has been the leading owner at this track for the past five years.

Schickedanz has parted company with Layne Giliforte, who had trained his Fort Erie horses during the five-year run. Now, the Schickedanz's horses here are handled by two trainers: Simms and Ray O'Connor.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society's annual 2-year-old in training sale is slated for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion.

The gallop show will take place on Woodbine's main track at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, and the pre-sale barbecue will be from 3-5 p.m. Thursday.

In a departure from recent years, the horses will be stabled at the receiving barn, just west of the grandstand, a building normally used for harness racing.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - See How She Runs, the Grade 2 Fantasy winner who is unbeaten in four career starts, shipped to Woodbine Race Course on Friday for the Grade 1, $250,000 Selene Stakes.

The 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds fillies is to be run May 20.

See How She Runs went from maiden winner to graded stakes winner in a matter of months, with all of her victories coming at Oaklawn Park between January and April. She has since worked twice at her summer base, Lone Star Park, and in her most recent breeze traveled five furlongs in 1:00.20 on May 4.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Sunday's George C. Hendrie Handicap was not the spot of choice for Ruby Park.

"I was actually aiming her for an allowance sprint, which we haven't been able to get," said Josie Carroll, who trains Ruby Park for owners Eugene and Laura Melnyk. "I was hoping to go from there to the Ballade," a six-furlong stakes for Ontario-sired fillies and mares here June 12.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Madame Roar rolled into Woodbine six weeks ago from her Maryland base, and embarrassed the locals with a front-running, six-length victory in the five-furlong La Voyageuse Handicap.

Madame Roar will try to turn the trick again, this time going 6 1/2 furlongs, in Sunday's $162,450 George C. Hendrie Handicap, a Grade 3 race for fillies and mares.