ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Kombat Kitty made a favorable impression in her only outing, and will be looking to stay perfect in Friday’s fourth race at Woodbine, a 6 1/2-furlong allowance for 2-year-old fillies.

Kombat Kitty came three wide from a stalking position to win a five-furlong maiden special Aug.  21 over next-out winners Duettina and Street Prize. For covering the distance in 58.51 seconds, she was awarded a Beyer Speed Figure of 66. She has worked three times in the interim, including a half-mile breeze Sept. 24 in 47 seconds, the fastest of 21 moves at the distance.

PHOENIX – As a long stretch of hot temperatures in the Phoenix area begins to subside, a long stretch of racing is set to commence as Turf Paradise opens its doors Friday for its 2010-2011 season.

The 156-day meet runs through May 8, 2011, with racing scheduled five days a week, Friday through Tuesday. The meet opens with a nine-race program.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Glitter Rox, who has been a going concern in turf sprints stakes here over the past couple of seasons, has been retired to the breeding shed.

A homebred 6-year-old who is owned by Joe and Ellen MacLellan and partners, Glitter Rox has been trained throughout her career by Ian Black.

“She’s had bad feet all her life, and one foot has kind of caught up with her,” Black said.

The Breeders’ Cup three-peat. It has never happened, and only once been attempted, but if things go as planned, Goldikova, the marvelous French miler, will try to make history this year. Goldikova starts Sunday at Longchamp in the Prix de la Foret, and any kind of decent performance will propel her to Churchill Downs and an attempt to win the Breeders’ Cup Mile for the third year in a row.

The $163,700 Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association Derby at Los Alamitos on Friday is likely to produce Headturner’s fifth consecutive win. Headturner set the fastest qualifying time in the 400-yard trials on Sept. 17 and will be heavily favored to repeat that performance.

For trainer Jose Flores, the lucrative derby is a prep race. He has the late November time trials for the $750,000 Champion of Champions on Dec. 11 as an autumn goal for Headturner, who races for Jose Ramon Sandoval.

Something has to give when Chatahoochie, Salsa Express, and The Cat’s Affair – all coming off back-to-back victories – meet in Friday’s featured sixth race for fillies and mares going six furlongs at Northlands Park.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Officials with the Oak Tree Racing Association and Santa Anita are scheduled to make presentations to the board of directors of the Thoroughbred Owners of California on Thursday regarding their respective proposals to host six weeks of racing in the fall of 2011.

At the California Horse Racing Board meeting last Thursday, the racing board did not take action on the 2011 Southern California Thoroughbred calendar, with chairman Keith Brackpool urging racing associations and horsemen’s groups to conduct discussions before the next racing board meeting on Oct. 14.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Beautician, who finished strongly and ended a long winless drought against allowance sprinters at Saratoga last month, is the morning-line favorite to score right back in Thursday’s $70,000 Belle Cherie overnight stakes.

Beautician, runner-up in last year’s Spinaway and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, drew the outside post in a field of 11 3-year-old fillies. The daughter of Dehere will be handful if she runs back to her Aug. 29 allowance race, when she rallied from next-to-last to win going away and earned her best Beyer Speed Figure in almost a year, a 90.

The nation’s top 3-year-old filly is now good to go to suburban Philadelphia.

Blind Luck on Tuesday put in her final work for Saturday’s Grade 2, $750,000 Fitz Dixon Cotillion at Parx Racing in Bensalem, Pa. She blew out a half-mile in 48.80 seconds at her Hollywood Park base for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, and was scheduled to fly to Pennsylvania on Wednesday.

“She went real nice and easy,” Hollendorfer said Tuesday. “I was very happy. “

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The new name takes a little getting used to – Oak Tree at Hollywood Park.

For 40 years, Oak Tree at Santa Anita was an autumn fixture on the Southern California racing calendar. The race meeting was a springboard for California’s best horses trying to reach the Breeders’ Cup and the season that cultivated the California Cup into one of the nation’s showcase days for statebreds.

All that shifts to Hollywood Park for the first time this year when the Oak Tree meeting opens Thursday night for a 22-day season through Oct. 31.