INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Forty on Line has made a quick impression in this country. A maiden when she arrived from England during the summer, Forty on Line is now 2 for 2 in the United States after a front-running win in Friday's $200,000 Miesque Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Hollywood Park.

Ridden by Corey Nakatani, Forty on Line ($43) was not challenged until late, when Riskaverse got within a length, the margin at the finish. Forty on Line finished a mile on turf in 1:36.38. The stakes win came a five weeks after she won a maiden race on turf at Santa Anita in her U.S. debut.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - Things are going so well for trainer Shug McGaughey at the Aqueduct meet that even when his even-money favorite fails, he still comes out on top.

Cat Cay, the less-heralded part of McGaughey's uncoupled entry, rallied from last to nip front-running Tugger by a head in Friday's $150,000, Grade 2 Top Flight Handicap. Atelier, the even-money favorite also trained by McGaughey, finished another 1 1/2 lengths back in third.

It was the eighth winner from 21 starts at this meet for McGaughey - the leading trainer - who also has three seconds and three thirds.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Ben Cecil reacted as fast as a game show contestant when asked on Friday how 3-year-old fillies have done in recent runnings of the Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park.

He knew that 1998 winner Ryafan was the most recent 3-year-old filly to succeed, preceded by Flawlessly in 1991 and Castilla in 1982.

On Sunday, Cecil hopes that his Golden Apples can become the fourth 3-year-old filly to win the late-season Grade 1 when she is likely to start as a slight favorite in the $500,000 Matriarch, run over 1 1/8 miles on turf.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - When Anthony Dutrow shipped Saratoga Way to New York for a maiden race in September, he was expecting a big performance out of the colt, based on the way he had trained.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - During the four months he was sidelined by injury, jockey Jose Santos thought long and hard about his career. He decided that he wants to ride for another five to seven years, and he plans on making the most of that time.

"I'm definitely not going to beat Laffit Pincay," Santos said, referring to Thoroughbred racing's all-time winningest rider. "I'm just trying to imitate him a little bit."

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Kona Gold, the beaten favorite in the Breeders' Cup Sprint last month at Belmont Park, will be given six weeks off after failing to impress trainer Bruce Headley in the Frank J. De Francis Memor-ial Dash at Laurel Park in Maryland last weekend.

Headley on Friday said that Kona Gold, the champion sprinter of 2000, has been turned out on property at his home in Arcadia, Calif., near Santa Anita.

"He's either lost interest, he's over the hill, he didn't like the track, or I didn't train him right," Headley said. "There is a lot of speculation."

PORTLAND, Ore. - Lethal Grande, a runaway winner of the OTBA Sales Stakes on Nov. 10, will be the one to beat on Sunday when he takes on nine other Oregon-bred 2-year-olds in the $13,250 Bill Wineberg Stakes at Portland Meadows.

NEW ORLEANS - The developing Flick, the stakes-placed Purple Princess, and the speedy Right Spice form the backbone of Sunday's $60,000 Pontalba Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, though neither can the three other entrants in the Pontalba be eliminated. File the race under "closely matched."

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Based on sheer volume, trainer Bobby Frankel should win the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby on Sunday at Hollywood Park.

Frankel starts four of the 14 runners in the $500,000 derby, each with fitting credentials. Denon's European form makes him the likeliest winner. He will be coupled with Aldebaran, who crushed older in his United States debut at Belmont. Frankel also starts Bay Meadows Derby winner Blue Steller, and Mizzen Mast, who is being wheeled back in 18 days after a win in a scorching 1:34.15 for a mile.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Gonetofarr, who earned one of the highest Beyer Speed Figures by a 2-year-old at Woodbine this year in her last outing, should be favored in Sunday's $144,180 Ontario Lassie, a 1 1/16-mile stakes for Canadian-bred juvenile fillies.

Trainer Reade Baker said Gonetofarr, a daughter of Southern Halo, has come a long way since the spring.