LOUISVILLE, Ky. - As usual, trainer John T. Ward Jr. is looking a few steps ahead. Even if Grand Score runs well enough Sunday to win the Iroquois Stakes, Ward said he is inclined to put the colt away for the rest of the year.

"The logical next step would be to run back in the Kentucky Jockey Club," he said, meaning the Grade 2 race that ends the Churchill Downs meet on Nov. 29. "But that would mean we'd probably have to take an early race away from him in Florida, and right now I'm leaning toward advising our camp against that. I think we've got a very nice horse here."

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Trainer Gary Demorest is having a remarkable year. He has won with almost 30 percent of his starters and is fourth in the trainer standings with 22 wins.

Last year Demorest won 17 races from 94 starts, and while those are decent numbers, they are far short of the success he has had this year.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - It's last call for grass racing here Sunday, but a few who were hoping to belly up to the bar for a final shot are being left high and dry.

Three one-mile turf races are carded for Sunday, including the Labeeb and River Memories stakes.

The Labeeb attracted 16 entrants and the River Memories drew 20, but only 14 will be allowed to start in each race. Highweights were preferred, with 3-year-olds allowed five pounds on the scale, and in the case of ties those horses with the lowest lifetime earnings were excluded.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Foot problems haven't stopped Greattobeloved from winning her last five races, all at six furlongs. She goes for six in a row Sunday at Woodbine in the $171,300 Jammed Lovely Stakes, a seven-furlong dash for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.

Greattobeloved's streak began after a short layoff in a June 28 maiden special weight race. She doubled up with another front-running win in an $80,000 claimer, then captured a first-level allow-ance with a three-wide stalking trip in early August.

MIAMI - The 128-day Calder meeting ended Oct. 24, and the final numbers showed distressing declines not only in ontrack attendance and handle but in both the intertrack and interstate simulcast numbers as well. Ontrack attendance and handle were down 4 percent and 6 percent, respectively, from the corresponding dates in 2002, while total ITW and ISW handle was off more than 4.5 percent each.

GROVE CITY City, Ohio - Jessica, upset winner of the $60,000 Best of Ohio Juvenile Fillies last out on Oct. 4, heads a field of nine statebred 2-year-old fillies in Sunday's $50,000 John W. Galbreath Memorial Stakes at Beulah Park.

In the Best of Ohio, Jessica stalked the pace to the stretch of the 1 1/16-mile race and reached the front entering the stretch. She went on to win by two lengths, despite bearing out late under jockey Russ Woolsey.

CHICAGO - Prairie Slam may have run into his ceiling in his last start. My Calabrese hasn't been running at all. One of them - the guessing game is on - could wind up in the winner's circle after the eighth race on Sunday at Hawthorne Race Course.

The eighth isn't the highest-level race on Sunday's card, but it is the best one. The opener is for third-level allowance horses, but it drew a nondescript field of six fillies and mares. By contrast, this second-level allowance, at 6 1/2 furlongs, has a competitive field of 11 - an excellent betting race.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Original One, the Fort's champion distance horse last year, ran eight times before recording his first 2003 victory here Oct. 19.

He will try to make it two in a row on Sunday.

"It was a flashback to last year," said trainer John Simms of the wire-to-wire 3 1/4-length win. "He ran huge, awesome, almost as if in hand the whole race.

"He's back to where he was at the end of last year when he was beating horses like Chris's Bad Boy [Fort Erie's horse of year] and that type. He was a monster."

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - There has been no stopping Tam's Terms since he made the switch from dirt to grass in May 2002.

Tam's Terms, a winner of seven of eight grass races, seeks his first graded stakes win in Saturday's Grade 2 Knickerbocker Handicap at Aqueduct.

Fourteen were entered in the 1 1/8-mile turf race, including also-eligibles Move Those Chains and Willard Straight. The 118-pound highweights are Quest Star, who won the Grade 2 Pan American in March, and Slew Valley, who has not won a race since June 2001.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Trainer Jimmy Jerkens, who has won at a 30-percent clip the last four Aqueduct inner-track meets, will send the bulk of his stable to south Florida this winter.

Jerkens, a son of Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens, will have 24 stalls at the Palm Meadows training center in Palm Beach while leaving about 15 horses in New York. Jerkens said the decision to go to Florida was a direct result of the miserable winter weather in the Northeast a year ago.