SAN MATEO, Calif. - Double Shot Latte, a good third in her comeback try on Oct. 19, looms the one to beat in Friday's $32,000 allowance feature at six furlongs for fillies and mares at Bay Meadows.

Double Shot Latte, conditioned by Jeff Bonde, has made only six starts in her career. She has posted one win, three seconds, and a third and seems in a good spot to add to that total. Double Shot Latte began her 2001 season in February at Santa Anita with a strong second, beaten just three-quarters of a length in an allowance race.

ELMONT, N.Y. - As he has attempted to do in each of the past three years, Affirmed Success will try to rid a sour Breeders' Cup experience with a sweet cigar.

Affirmed Success, who finished 11th in the Breeders' Cup Mile, will return to dirt in the Grade 1 $350,000 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct on Nov. 24. It will be

the fourth consecutive year Affirmed Success has run in the Cigar, a race he won in 1999. In 1998, Affirmed Success finished second in the Cigar Mile and a year ago he finished third after enduring a troubled trip.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - Evening Attire played a nasty Halloween trick on horseplayers Wednesday, rallying along the inside to upset the Grade 3 $109,300 Discovery Handicap by one length at odds of 65-1 before an opening-day crowd of 3,536 at Aqueduct.

Street Cry, the 4-5 favorite, hung in for second, 1 3/4 lengths ahead of Free of Love.

Eddie Cox Jr. is set to defend his title Friday night in the second annual American Quarter Horse Association Jockey Championship at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie.

The winner is determined by the highest number of points from four starter allowance races at distances from 350 to 550 yards.

Cox's mounts have earned more than $1.2 million this year, and he is the regular rider of Shining Sky, the top 2-year-old in Texas.

NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - Three of the nation's top eight trainers in number of wins are racing at the recently opened Cranwood meet here. They are Jerry Hollendorfer, who is fourth in the national standings; Dale Baird, who is seventh; and Gary Johnson, who is eighth.

Hollendorfer, a native of nearby Bath, Ohio, has 25 horses on the grounds under the care of Tom Roberts and leads the standings with eight wins from 15 starts. Baird has saddled three winners from 13 chances and Johnson has won with two of 22 starters.

EAST BOSTON, Mass. - Mrscoppolaskitchen pulled off a $13.60 upset in last Saturday's Mom's Command Stakes, but it was Yacht to Pay For, who didn't even run in the race, who came away with the big prize.

Mrscoppolaskitchen, owned by the Green Spot Stable, came from just off the pace in the six-furlong Mom's Command and scored by a length under Dodie Duys.

Darlin Dixie, who returned from a five-month layoff to win the $50,000 Ricks Memorial Handicap on turf in September, switches back to the main track Friday night in the $25,000 Carris Memorial Handicap.

The one-mile race for fillies and mares has drawn six others, including Runaway Magic, who finished third in the Ricks Memorial, and Western Delight, who earlier this meet won the Remington Park Oaks for trainer Randy Oberlander.

ANDERSON, Ind. - With 27 days remaining in this 70-day meet, Stanley Roberts has a hammerlock on the trainer standings. Roberts saddled nine winners from 18 starts last week and holds a 34-12 edge over Gary Patrick.

Roberts is poised to eclipse the meet record of 39 wins, set a year ago by Ray Stifano. Roberts checked in second last year with 36 wins, making him the track's all-time leading trainer, with 86 wins here.

The Milltown starter handicap series continues Friday night, with the distances getting significantly longer for the final three races.

MUSKEGON, Mich. - In the closest race she has been involved in here, Born to Dance was selected the Great Lakes Downs horse of the year. Secret Romeo, the champion 3-year-old colt, was a close second in the voting. The 130-day meet closed Wednesday night.

Born to Dance was born to run, and she proved it with five victories here, four of them stakes, for trainer James Jackson and owner Rosendo Parra.

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. - Owner William Stiritz, trainer Jimmy Zook, and jockey Gary Kurek combined for back-to-back wins Saturday night. They won with Chasseur's Tresor ($31.60) in the sixth and Saint Clair ($5.60) in the seventh. The same connections scored in Tuesday's $15,000 Pleasant Colony Handicap when W W Robin de Hood ($4.60) won for the fifth time this year.

Trainer Frank Randazzo Jr. saddled three winners on Tuesday's card. The hat trick gives Randazzo 47 wins on the season, good for fourth place in the local trainer standings.