Hollywood Park Ready for Smaller Friday Fields : Horse racing: Entry deadline might be extended if threatened boycott of night program materializes.

The most interesting action on the first day of Hollywood Park’s 67-day meeting will take place before the races begin today at 1 p.m.

Entries will be taken this morning for the first of 13 programs of Friday night racing, but trainers and owners have threatened not to enter because of their disapproval of night racing and, with it, the simulcasting of quarter horse racing from Los Alamitos and harness racing from Sacramento.

Few trainers have been willing to say they will race under the lights.

“We’ll go with five-horse fields if we have to,” said Don Robbins, Hollywood Park’s president. “We’ll also go with fewer than nine races if necessary, possibly as few as seven.”

If there are not enough entries today to fulfill the requirements Robbins mentioned, it is possible the entry box could be kept open an extra day in hopes the card would be filled then. Although it hasn’t happened lately, such an occurrence wouldn’t be a first for Hollywood Park.

Brought To Mind, who won three consecutive stakes at the track last year, is among eight fillies and mares scheduled to start in the opening-day feature, the $100,000-added A Gleam Handicap at seven furlongs.

Third in the 1991 A Gleam, Brought To Mind bounced back to sweep the Hawthorne, Milady and Vanity Handicaps in succession, but she has fallen on hard times since then. Trainer Ron McAnally’s 5-year-old mare has lost six in a row, and her best finish came when she was a distant third at 48-1 in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.

Most recently, the daughter of Ruthie’s Native was sixth in the Rampart Handicap at Gulfstream Park. Alex Solis, Santa Anita’s leading rider, will return on Brought To Mind. He hasn’t ridden her since she finished fourth in the Chula Vista Handicap at Del Mar on Sept. 1.

Trainer Richard Mandella will start two mares, both of whom have been on layoffs.

Devil’s Orchid, who last raced June 2, drew the inside post for the A Gleam and has been training well for her comeback. Chris McCarron will ride the Devil’s Bag mare, who has eight victories in 14 starts and has been off the board only once.

Sacramentada, who is owned in part by R.D. Hubbard, Hollywood Park’s chairman of the board and chief operating officer, hasn’t run since Jan. 1. A Chilean-bred, Sacramentada won her only start at Hollywood Park by 3 1/2 lengths, and the last time she ran seven furlongs, she won by 17 lengths. Kent Desormeaux has the mount.

The rest of the field includes Santa Margarita runner-up and Santa Monica winner Laramie Moon, Mi Lucia, Tiffany’s Gem, Perky Slew and Forest Fealty, who won the Las Flores Breeders’ Cup Handicap March 7 at Santa Anita by 5 1/2 lengths at 20-1.

Hollywood Park will unveil its new program today. It will cost $1.75 and contains, among other things, various charts and graphs, rankings for jockeys, trainers and a horse’s class and six past performance lines from the Daily Racing Form on each horse.

The meeting will also mark the start of the $1 Win-Place Pick Nine. This is a new exotic wager requiring a player to pick the first- or second-place finisher in all nine races.

Hollywood Park will offer three daily triples, two trifectas, two daily doubles and the Pick Six on races 4-9.