INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Unzip Me, winner of five stakes for female turf sprinters, is a candidate for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint against males Nov. 6, trainer Marty Jones said earlier this week.

Unzip Me won her most recent start, the $100,000 Sen. Ken Maddy Handicap against fillies and mares over six furlongs on turf at Hollywood Park on Sept. 30. The Grade 3 Maddy was her second consecutive graded stakes win, preceded by the Grade 3 Royal North Stakes at Woodbine.

The $1 million BC Turf Sprint is run over five furlongs on turf.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The multiple Grade 1-winning 3-year-old filly Devil May Care will miss next month’s Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic as well as the remainder of the year after being diagnosed with a non-contagious case of hepatitis, trainer Todd Pletcher said Saturday.

Devil May Care, who won the Mother Goose and Coaching Club American Oaks following a 10th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, has been treated with antibiotics and is at her owner John Greathouse’s Glencrest Farm in Kentucky.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Though she only won by a head, Aruna’s victory in a first-level allowance race on closing day at Saratoga impressed her trainer Graham Motion quite a bit.

With only one horse beaten at the top of the stretch, Aruna rallied to win the one-mile race in her first start in four months and first in North America. She ran a final quarter-mile in under 23 seconds to get the win over a course that had become extremely speed-favoring.

Wickedly Perfect, the winner of Friday’s Grade 1 Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland, will miss the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5 because of a bone chip in a knee, trainer Doug O’Neill said.

The diagnosis was made Saturday morning, O’Neill said. Wickedly Perfect would have been among the leading contenders for the BC Juvenile Fillies.

“She had a little heat in a left knee,” O’Neill said. “We did X-rays and she has a chip.”

Over the past month, no trainer has been hotter at Finger Lakes than Michael Ferraro, who has put together a 13-for-31 streak, which translates to a 42 percent hit rate.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Rich Coleman, the Minister of Housing and Social Development who is responsible for horse racing in British Columbia, said there would be government help forthcoming to the beleaguered horse racing industry.

Coleman didn’t give the exact number in terms of dollars but he did say it would be substantial. Currently, slot revenue to the horse racing industry comes from slots at Hastings and Fraser Downs, the local Standardbred track.

GROVE CITY, Ohio – Beulah Park begins a 52-day fall/winter meet under new ownership Tuesday. Penn Gaming purchased the track in the spring and the deal was finalized over the summer. Although most of the same personnel are in place, quite a bit has changed.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Ralph Biamonte should be front and center in Monday’s $125,000 Bull Page Stakes at Woodbine, when he runs Altius and Citius in the six-furlong sprint for Ontario-sired 2-year-olds.

Altius and Citius are both sons of leading Canadian freshman sire Old Forester, and they were both bred by Biamonte.

The speedy Altius was second in his five-furlong debut in June. He graduated over 5 1/2 furlongs, with the addition Lasix in another Ontario-sired maiden dash July 25.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Sidney’s Candy, a four-time graded stakes winner in California this year, was scratched from the Grade 2 Oak Tree Mile on Saturday at Hollywood Park because of a pending sale, trainer John Sadler said Saturday morning.

Sadler said the deal was expected to be finalized by Monday but declined to identify the potential buyer. Under terms being discussed for the potential sale, Sadler said he would continue to train Sidney’s Candy for the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Churchill Downs on Nov. 6.

Northlands Park will close its 2010 meet with a strong 10-race card headed by an excellent field in the $50,000 Harvest Gold Plate for 3-year-olds and up. The 1 1/16-mile feature attracted nine horses and appears to be a wide-open race.

Adding excitement to the closing-day festivities is the late move by jockey Shannon Beauregard. Through Friday, Beauregard was just four wins shy of Anthony Salgado in the standings.