OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Bill Mott sent six of his prospective seven Breeders’ Cup horses out for workouts Thursday morning over the Oklahoma training track at Saratoga. Elite Power, the defending Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner and reigning sprint champion, worked five furlongs in 1:01.40 going in company with BC Mile contender Casa Creed, who was timed in 1:01.80. According to Mott, Casa Creed started a couple of lengths in front of Elite Power and the pair finished together. Elite Power will go into the Sprint having not run since finishing second to Gunite in the Grade 1 Forego. Casa Creed will go into the Mile having not run since winning the Grade 1 Fourstardave at Saratoga on Aug. 12. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match + FREE All Access PPs! Join DRF Bets. “I’m not looking to set a track record at this point. We already know [Elite Power] can run, just trying to do enough to keep him fit and get him to the race,” Mott said. “Casa Creed, he’s had a little more time in between races, I didn’t think a couple of good works would hurt him.” Mott’s four other BC workers Thursday went by themselves. War Like Goddess, pointing to the BC Turf, went four furlongs in 49.90 seconds; Gala Brand (Juvenile Fillies Turf) went a half-mile in 50.22 seconds; Just F Y I (Juvenile Fillies) went a half-mile in 48.20 seconds and Caramel Swirl (Filly and Mare Sprint) went a half-mile in 47.00 seconds, fastest of 25 at the distance. “The only one working faster than ever is Caramel Swirl,” Mott said. “She worked fast last week, too, and the rider was just sitting against her.” Caramel Swirl is coming off a victory in the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom in which she was elevated to first after finishing third and the stewards disqualified the two top finishers for interference. Gala Brand disappointed as the 5-2 favorite in the Grade 2 Miss Grillo, but Mott blamed the soft turf and slow pace for that effort. “I don’t think anybody thought she had the best of trips,” Mott said. “It just looked like with the slow pace, she was never in position to get it done. The rider [Jose Ortiz] said he just didn’t feel we should be discouraged by the race.” Mott said Cody’s Wish, looking for a repeat victory in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, was scheduled to work Friday. All seven of Mott’s Breeders’ Cup horses are scheduled to ship to Southern California on Wednesday and will have one work at Santa Anita. :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. Rocco Strong has familiar path Sea Foam, who gave trainer Michelle Giangiulio her first victory as a trainer 11 days after she claimed the horse in 2021, has been retired from racing. Giangiulio said the 8-year-old New York-bred had put in two sub-par performances and may have been bothered by some chronic foot issues. Giangiulio claimed Sea Foam for $45,000 on July 11, 2021, and 11 days later he won the Evan Shipman Stakes, giving Giangiulio her first victory. Sea Foam retires with 10 career victories from 35 starts and earnings of $856,103. Giangiulio hopes she can have similar success with recent claim Rocco Strong, who she and Ten Strike Racing took for $32,000 and who runs in Saturday’s first-level allowance feature at Aqueduct. Rocco Strong enters the race off a solid win for $25,000. Giangiulio said Rocco Strong “blew me away the way he ran last time,” when he came from off the pace to win a one-turn mile claimer, the same distance as Saturday’s race. “He doesn’t have to run back to that race to win and I don’t think he’s going backwards,” Giangiulio said. Macallan, Cascais, and Signator are other contenders in Saturday’s race. The one-mile allowance replaces the Grade 3 Athenia as the Saturday feature. With the threat of rain this weekend, the Athenia, scheduled for the turf, has been rescheduled for next Friday. Cancel eyes Thursday return Jockey Eric Cancel, who underwent surgery to repair a broken foot in July, is expected to return to race-riding next Thursday, his agent, P.J. Campo, said this week. Cancel got on horses Wednesday and Thursday morning at Belmont Park and will continue to do so leading up to his return. Cancel was initially injured in a spill on June 17 at Belmont when the horse he was riding, Fast Corey, ducked in sharply and crashed through the temporary rail on the turf course, unseating Cancel. Cancel attempted to ride a few more days – June 25, July 1, and July 15 – but was still experiencing pain. Regular X-rays did not reveal the fracture, but an MRI did. Cancel won the 2020-21 Aqueduct winter meet when he erased a five-win deficit by riding six winners on the final card of the meet. Last winter, he finished fifth in the standings with 23 wins. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.