As the only 2-year-old fillies in Monday's $55,000 Irish Sonnet Stakes at Delaware Park with more than a maiden victory to their credit, Linda D's Roomy and Lets Just Do It are the obvious favorites in the six-furlong sprint.

POMONA, Calif. - Is there another Squirtle Squirt hidden somewhere in the Barretts Juvenile field? Or is the $100,000 stakes just an ordinary race with an extraordinary purse?

Five juvenile colts, four of them maidens, race 6 1/2 furlongs Sunday at Fairplex Park in the Barretts Juvenile, won by Squirtle Squirt in 2000 before he emerged the next season as the country's champion sprinter. It is reasonable to suggest the Barretts field this year is not as strong.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Chauffe Au Rouge will try to make amends Sunday in the $100,000 Louisiana Downs Handicap after finishing fourth at 1-2 in his last start - but his task will not be easy.

Highweighted at 118 pounds for the 1 1/16-mile turf race, he spots his opponents from two to nine pounds each, including the three horses who finished in front of him last out in the $50,000 Barksdale Handicap: Rebridled, Big Hubie, and Big Numbers.

ELMONT, N.Y. - An accomplished group of 3-year-old male turf horses meet in Sunday's $200,000 Jamaica Handicap at Belmont Park.

Nine entered the Grade 2 Jamaica, plus two main-track only runners, Dr. Rockett and Volkonsky. The strong field includes Chiselling and Jazz Beat, the winner and runner-up in the Grade 1 Secretariat. The 1 1/8-mile Jamaica also drew Devious Indian, a group winner in France; graded winner Miesque's Approval; and Ibn Al Haitham, who showed dramatic form reversal when recently switched to the grass.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Added Edge will try to extend his unbeaten streak to three races as the heavy favorite in Sunday's $133,250 Swynford Stakes at Woodbine.

Just three others were entered in the seven-furlong dash, which has surprisingly lost its graded status, even though each of the last four winners of the race were voted Canada's champion 2-year-old.

Added Edge came from just off the pace to capture one of the quickest maiden 2-year-old dashes of the meeting on Aug. 8, when he ran 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:17.60.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Following the excitement of Saturday's Alberta Fall Classics program, which comprises stakes races for Alberta-breds in seven categories, the Thoroughbred season in this province will be set to wind down.

Sunday's nominal feature, the seventh race, brings together seven $15,000 claimers at a mile.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Delta Colleen, who used a tremendous late move to win more than $800,000, would love the way the race named in her honor sets up on Sunday. With speedsters Grooms Derby, Lady's Jewel, and Lilsisterlightning all entered, it should favor a horse that does her best running late.

Catahoula Rose certainly fits the bill, and she faces eight other fillies and mares in the $35,000 feature, which will be contested over 1 1/16 miles.

MIAMI - Ariel Smith, 1999 Eclipse Award winner as top apprentice, has been suspended 27 days by the Calder stewards, seven for careless riding and 20 more for being the aggressor in a wild jockeys' room brawl following the running of the fifth race here Monday. He was also fined $1,000 for destroying track property.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Trainer Brent Sumja is excited about Federal Highway's turf debut in Sunday's $60,000-added Half Moon Bay Stakes for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles.

Sumja, who purchased Federal Highway in Florida this spring, had considered running the colt on turf, but wasn't sure it was the right move.

"I never thought of running him on turf when we were in the process of purchasing him," Sumja said. "I was told a long time ago: 'Don't ever buy a horse to make him do something else.' I've always followed that advice."

CHICAGO - There are no stakes races at Arlington this weekend - there will be plenty next week - and Saturday's second-level allowance feature appears on paper to be a one-horse race. But almost any racing program is crisscrossed by tangled story lines, and Sunday's is no exception.

With only four wins in 84 starts, trainer David Hinsley has struggled through the summer, though he typically wins his share of races here. But Sunday, Hinsley will find out in the first race if Afleet Loyd is a diamond in the rough.