GROVE CITY, Ohio - Nine 2-year-old Ohio-bred fillies, all seeking their first career stakes win, are entered in Saturday's $35,000 Glacial Princess Stakes at Beulah Park.

Happy Endings Too may be the one to beat in the mile and 70-yard Glacial Princess, based on her half-length maiden victory over special weight company last out Nov. 1 at Mountaineer Park.

A daughter of Forest Gazelle, Happy Endings Too rallied from off the pace to win that race, which was contested at a mile and 70 yards. She is the only filly in the field who has won around two turns.

VINTON, La. - Just as every horse in Friday night's $1 million Delta Jackpot has something to prove, so does the race itself. Doubled in value for its second running, the Jackpot boasts the kind of purse that can help it carve out a national niche.

It is the second-biggest offering for 2-year-olds in North America behind the $1.5 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile, and is the richest race in Louisiana.

VINTON, La. - Trainer Doug O'Neill and jockey Jon Court come from different worlds. O'Neill is having a breakout year in Southern California, while Court is a successful rider in the Midwest.

But their worlds came together last weekend, when they teamed to win the richest race of both their careers with Fleetstreet Dancer in the $2.3 million Japan World Cup Dirt. And on Friday night, their paths cross again, at Delta Downs in Vinton.

VINTON, La. - Trainer Patrick Biancone thinks so highly of recent maiden winner Salty Romance that he wanted to run her against male rivals in the $1 million Delta Jackpot at Delta Downs on Friday night. But she was excluded from the race based on earnings, and instead will run against her own sex in $250,000 Delta Princess, one of three undercard stakes on the card.

A one-mile race for 2-year-old fillies, the Princess drew a full field of 10, and a case can be made for most of the starters in the field.

MIAMI - Funny Cide settled into his winter headquarters at the Palm Meadows training center over the weekend to begin preparations for the upcoming Gulfstream Park meeting. Just when and where he will run this winter remains up in the air, though.

Funny Cide shipped to south Florida shortly after returning to New York from the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita. He spent three weeks at Gulfstream Park before moving up to Palm Meadows when the facility opened last Saturday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Unforgettable Max has had a pretty forgettable career thus far.

But that could change as early as Saturday, when Unforgettable Max runs in the Grade 3, $100,000 Queens County Handicap at Aqueduct.

NEW ORLEANS - Trainer Mike Stidham does awfully well winning entry-level allowance races. Especially on turf and especially at Fair Grounds. Thursday, he takes two swings under those conditions.

The Stidham barn, which won an entry-level sprint allowance opening weekend with Cabo Sunrise, has a Gary Bisantz-owned horse for both divisions of a first-level grass allowance. American Son is no worse than second choice in the seventh race; Salvino is an unknown quantity in the ninth. Both races, at about 1 1/8 miles, are scheduled to go with eight starters.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Richard Migliore has been the go-to rider for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin all year. So it is noteworthy that when McLaughlin brings Arctic Drift back to the races in Friday's featured entry-level allowance race at Aqueduct, Migliore is riding for someone else.

Migliore will pilot the New York-bred Blink Twice in her seventh career race but first against open company. Meanwhile, Aaron Gryder will be aboard Arctic Drift, who makes her first start since July 18 in this six-furlong race for fillies and mares.

PORTLAND, Ore. - In Search of Fame will accept a highweight assignment of 128 pounds when he takes on 10 challengers in Friday's Quarter Horse version of the Columbia River Handicap, which will be run at 400 yards for a purse of $6,000-added.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - A surprisingly strong optional-claiming race featuring the crack sprinter Thunder Bullet and the well-regarded South American import Recordado tops Friday's eight-race card at Hollywood Park.

Thirteen were entered in the one-mile grass race, but only 12 can run. Handicappers trying to stay alive in the pick six may have to use several runners, as this field is deep in both quantity and quality.