LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Keeneland Association and Martin Collins Equine Services are dissolving their partnership in a company that manufactures and markets Polytrack, the synthetic racing surface in place at a number of racetracks in North America, including Keeneland.

Comicsperfectstorm, who has won her last five races, and Rose’s Desert, a winner of her last three starts, are stablemates who will meet for the first time Sunday in the $110,000 New Mexico Racing Commission Handicap at Sunland Park.

“We couldn’t avoid it anymore,” trainer Todd Fincher said.

The Racing Commission Handicap is a six-furlong race for fillies and mares bred in New Mexico. It will share a card with another statebred stakes, the $110,000 Johnie L. Jamison Handicap.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Celestial Kitten won her first stakes in Thursday’s Spearfish Stakes at Hollywood Park and will have the fifth chance of her career to win a graded stakes in the $150,000 Robert Frankel Stakes at Santa Anita on Jan. 1.

Owned by Triple B Farms and trained by Ben Cecil, Celestial Kitten, 4, has run in four graded stakes in the past, with her best results second-place finishes in the Grade 2 Sands Point Stakes at Belmont Park in June and the Grade 3 Harold Ramser Handicap at Santa Anita in October.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Crossbow appeared on his way to a promising 3-year-old season after winning a maiden race in New York and a first-level allowance race at Gulfstream Park last January.

Purses for maiden special weight races and allowance races will be marginally higher at the forthcoming Santa Anita winter-spring meeting, while most claiming races will remain the same compared to the 2010-11 season.

Santa Anita released its first condition book Thursday, detailing the races likely to be run in the first two weeks of the meeting, from the Dec. 26 opening day through Jan. 8.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The last time Trip for A.J. and Askbut I Won’ttell met, they finished a half-length apart in that order fighting for the winner’s share of a $300,000 purse in the 2011 Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf. The pair will square off again for a lot less swag – a mere $60,000 – when they head a full and well-matched field of filly and mare turf specialist in Sunday’s 7 1/2-furlong South Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Even though the 3-year-old Tiz Flirtatious is undefeated after winning two sprints at Santa Anita in October, trainer Marty Jones thinks she is more suited to run long.

She gets her chance in Sunday’s $80,000 Cat’s Cradle Handicap for statebred females over 7 1/2 furlongs at Hollywood Park.
“I’ve always thought she wants to run farther,” he said. “She’s not built like a sprinter and she doesn’t run like a sprinter.”

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Reigning Florida Derby winner Dialed In is back on familiar grounds at Palm Meadows with trainer Nick Zito, who said he is not going rush his star back into action this winter.

Portland Meadows holds its biggest day of stakes racing on Sunday’s Oregon Championship Day, with five Oregon-bred stakes races. L G Jet will gun for his third straight victory in the $15,000 Bill Wineberg for 2-year-old males, while Forty Something has a good chance to win for the first time in the $15,000 Janet Wineberg.

The other stakes on the card are the $10,000 Oregon His for 3-year-olds and $10,000 Oregon Hers for 3-year-old fillies, and the $10,000 Lethal Grande Sprint Championship.

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. – Trainer Juan Aleman’s biggest fear is that Last to Fire won’t be able duplicate his trial race in Sunday’s $2,236,300 Los Alamitos Two Million, the richest race in track history.

Last to Fire was the fastest qualifier for the Los Alamitos Two Million. He won his division of the Nov. 20 trials by three lengths, finishing 400 yards on a wet-fast track in 19.72 seconds. I Like the Odds had the second-fastest qualifying time of 19.86, or nearly a length slower than Last to Fire.