MIAMI, Fla. - Queue, who began her career at Calder two years ago, returns home a Grade 2 stakes winner Dec. 29, when she makes her next start in the $150,000 La Prevoyante Handicap.

Queue became a graded stakes winner when she won the 1 1/2-mile Long Island Handicap on turf at Aqueduct last weekend.

Like the Long Island Handicap, the La Prevoyante is run at 12 furlongs on the turf.

Queue, a homebred daughter of French Deputy out of the stakes-winning mare P J Floral, is owned by Gerald Robins and Jay Weiss.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - Do you go with the class horses returning from layoffs, or those who are coming off sharp recent races?

Horseplayers have grappled with that question forever, and must do so again to sort out Friday's 1 1/8-mile feature on Aqueduct's turf course.

Steve Klesaris, one of the leading trainers at Delaware Park this year, will relocate part of his stable to Charles Town this winter. Klesaris said he will send most of his 2-year-olds to Florida and keep his older horses up north. He was allotted 12 stalls on Charles Town's crowded backstretch.

Klesaris saddled 23 winners from 89 starters at Delaware to rank third in winning percentage (27 percent) and 15th in wins. His horses finished in the money 59 percent of the time.

EAST BOSTON, Mass - A racing bill that passed the state legislature last Thursday is expected to be signed by acting Governor Jane Swift late this week. The new legislation puts an end to a two-year dispute, during which a string of extensions kept racing alive in Massachusetts.

Although horsemen and management say the bill falls short of their expectations, the measure will provide an estimated $3 million in additional purse money, which will come through a reduction in the state's portion of the mutuel takeout.

ANDERSON, Ind. - With three weeks remaining in the live racing season the popularity of Hoosier Park's signal to simulcast players has been at an all-time high.

The track posted a record handle of $2,107,487 last Friday night. All sources handle has been more than a million dollars for each program in November.

* Leading trainer Stanley Roberts is one win shy of tying the record of 39 wins in a meet. He has a commanding 38-15 edge over Ray Stifano in the trainer standings with 16 days of racing remaining.

After the first two weeks of the Hawthorne fall meet Shane Laviolette was atop the rider standings with 13 wins, three ahead of Randall Meier. Meier scored a stakes double last Saturday riding the winners of the $75,000 Lightning Jet and the $75,000 Powerless at the Cicero, Ill., track.

Hawthorne Hall of Fame jockey Ray Sibille, tied for fourth in the standings through Sunday, plans to shift his tack to the Fair Grounds when it opens on Thanksgiving Day next week.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Reputations tarnished, California sprinters Kona Gold, Caller One, and Early Flyer flew 3,000 miles Tuesday to seek redemption Saturday in - of all places - Maryland.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - With less than three weeks remaining in the turf season in New York, trainers are hoping to get one more race out of their grass horses before laying them up or shipping them south.

The spate of good weather in the East has given trainers ample opportunity to do that, making for some terrific betting races at Aqueduct.

A case in point is Thursday's feature, a third-level allowance race at one mile for fillies and mares, which drew a contentious field of 10 betting interests.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Seven of them have tried stakes, and a couple have actually won one. As a group, the 11 fillies and mares scheduled to clash Thursday in the eighth-race feature at Churchill Downs form a classy bunch, although most racing fans merely will want to know who is classy enough to prevail on this particular afternoon.