Barnavara, the narrow winner of Sunday’s Group 1 Prix de l’Opera at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, will not be sent to Del Mar for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf on Nov. 1.

Trainer Jessica Harrington said on Tuesday that Barnavara will not race again this year, and is scheduled to be sold at auction in December.

“I don’t think we will be going” to Del Mar, she said. “I think she had a hard enough race. I don’t want to end up with a bad run.

“She’s done very well this year.”

The North American preliminaries came to a close last weekend, clarifying the division, and while the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket in England comes Saturday, we’ve probably already found the favorite for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.

Aidan O’Brien, who has trained the last three winners of the Juvenile Turf, and who has won the race seven times, as of Tuesday had six horses still among the possible final entrants for the Dewhurst. But his prime candidate for Del Mar, Puerto Rico, ran this past Sunday.

Even if Thorpedo Anna’s misfire last weekend softened the field for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, the trainer of Argentina Group 1 winner Sarawak Rim acknowledged his filly faces a tall order.

“Distaffs are always tough,” Ignacio Correas said. “There’s not an easy Distaff.”

Correas would know, having won the 2019 Distaff with Blue Prize, an Argentine who was in the U.S. more than two years and won two U.S. Grade 1s prior to winning the Distaff at Santa Anita in her second try in the race. This year is different, even if the field does not include 2024 winner Thorpedo Anna.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The featured eighth race Thursday at Keeneland comes infused with international flavor. Cima de Areco, unbeaten after four starts in her native Argentina, and a Group 1 winner there, makes her North American debut in a second-level turf allowance over 1 1/16 miles. She also makes her first start for her Japanese owners, Hironaga Hashimoto and Yuki Hashimoto, and for trainer Graham Motion, originally of England, now fairly thoroughly Americanized.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Richard Mandella took a conservative outlook regarding his chances in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Sunday, a day after Tamara easily won her 2025 debut in the Grade 3 Chillingworth Stakes at Santa Anita.

“I’ll have two good chances,” he said.

Make that two magnificent chances, or perhaps even great ones.

Tamara will be joined in the race by the three-time graded stakes winner Kopion, who was brilliant in winning the Grade 1 Derby City Distaff at seven furlongs at Churchill Downs in May.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Before he reaches the gate as an outsider in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar on Nov. 1, the Uruguyan import Touch of Destiny will have had a stern introduction to American racing.

Touch of Destiny has been an occasional workmate of the star 3-year-old Journalism in recent weeks at Santa Anita.

Unbeaten in six starts in Uruguay, Touch of Destiny is now based with trainer Michael McCarthy at Santa Anita. A 3-year-old colt, Touch of Destiny earned a fees-paid berth to the BC Dirt Mile with a win in a Group 3 stakes at a mile in Uruguay in June.

ARCADIA, Calif. – There are five-figure carryovers in four bets at Santa Anita on Friday.

The $2 pick six starts in the fourth race with a carryover of $45,583 from Sunday. Bettors are likely to add more than $300,000 to the pool. In Friday’s ninth race, there is a carryover of $35,706 in the $1 Super High Five, which requires the selection of the first five finishers in order.

Two other wagers that have carryovers include races from Gulfstream Park in Florida. The two tracks are both owned by 1/ST Racing.

Sacrosanct, the New York-bred champion 2-year-old of 2024 who has not raced since an eighth-place finish in the Grade 3 Gotham Stakes in March, is now with trainer Linda Rice after having previously run for Brad Cox.

On Sunday, Sacrosanct had his first work since the Gotham, going a half-mile in 48.76 seconds over the Belmont Park training track. Sacrosanct worked with the unraced 3-year-old filly Dia Por Dia.

“Very nice, in hand, on the bridle – the rider had a good hold of him,” Rice said.

Owner John Stewart sounded hopeful about running Village Voice in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf following her victory in Sunday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Waya Stakes, her first start in the U.S. and first anywhere in nearly a year.

Village Voice, trained by Chad Brown, rallied down the center of Aqueduct’s inner turf course to beat Beach Bomb by a head in the Waya, a performance for which she earned a 95 Beyer Speed Figure.

Trainer Ray Handal went into last week’s Grade 2 Pilgrim Stakes saying the only way he would consider the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf for Heeere’s Johnny were if he won or ran a bang-up race.