Tamara gets to be a couch potato this weekend, watching television on the monitor trainer Richard Mandella has set up in her stall at Santa Anita.

Well, there’s really no tube – but there is plenty to watch.

Between this Friday and Saturday, there are three Win and You’re In stakes for next month’s Grade 1, $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. Tamara, who is training up to the championship race on Nov. 3 at Santa Anita, is the early 5-2 favorite on David Aragona’s line for Daily Racing Form.

As European participation in the Breeders’ Cup Mile has grown tenuous in the last week, the importance of the $1 million Coolmore Turf Mile on Saturday at Keeneland has increased commensurately.

The Ireland-based Tahiyra and the England-based Inspiral a few weeks ago looked like decent bets to show up at Santa Anita for the Mile and would’ve been among the shorter prices. Now, both horses might remain on the east side of the Atlantic.

Three Grade 1 stakes being run this weekend from coast-to-coast – the $300,000 American Pharoah at Santa Anita, the $600,000 Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland, and the $400,000 Champagne at Belmont at Aqueduct – should bring the field for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Nov. 3 into clearer focus.

As usual in this division, two of the top cameramen are Bob Baffert and Todd Pletcher, both of whom have several top contenders for the Juvenile, a race the two have combined to win eight times, seven over the last 15 years.

Practical Move returns to action Friday in an allowance at Santa Anita that has the potential to produce starters for the Grade 1, $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 4.

Practical Move has won three graded stakes in his last three starts, his most recent the Santa Anita Derby on April 8. For his return, which comes at a mile, he’s logged a strong series of works. Trainer Tim Yakteen said Friday’s race will start to determine the path for Practical Move.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The role of Breeders’ Cup Distaff favorite will solidify after the Grade 1 Spinster Stakes on Sunday at Keeneland, but in the meantime there is no doubt about the identity of the hometown favorite.

Adare Manor scored her sixth Santa Anita victory last Sunday, wiring the Grade 2 Zenyatta Stakes in a virtual public workout over three rivals. It gets tougher for Adare Manor on Nov. 4 in the BC Distaff at Santa Anita.

The only virtual certainty in trying to forecast the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint is that the race should have a full field – and that the picture for that starting gate should begin coming into focus following four stakes this coming weekend.

Following Indiana Derby Day, which was July 8 this year, the stakes portion of the marathon race meeting at Horseshoe Indianapolis turns inward. The last 18 races on the 2023 stakes schedule after the Indiana Derby are restricted to Indiana-bred or Indiana-sired horses. Only two of them at $75,000 don’t have six figure purses, four boast purses of $200,000 or greater, and the total prize money available in those 18 races is about $2.5 million.

The unbeaten 2-year-old Prince of Monaco is likely to skip Saturday’s Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita in favor of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at the same venue on Nov. 3, trainer Bob Baffert said Sunday.

Prince of Monaco, rated as the nation’s leading juvenile male, has won three races, including a sweep of the two graded stakes for the division at the Del Mar summer meeting – the Grade 3 Best Pal Stakes by 4 1/4 lengths at six furlongs on Aug. 13 and a hard-fought win by three-quarters of a length in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity at seven furlongs on Sept. 10.

Less than a week after missing a scheduled workout, White Abarrio was exercised five furlongs in 1:01.60 on Monday at Santa Anita, resuming preparation for the Breeders’ Cup Classic at the Southern California track on Nov. 4.

The workout was the first for White Abarrio since he zipped five furlongs in 1:00.80 on Sept. 20 shortly after he was shipped to California from trainer Richard Dutrow Jr.’s New York base.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Ichiban will try to transfer her Saratoga form to Aqueduct when the New York-bred 3-year-old filly meets open company for the first time in a first-level allowance/optional $50,000 claiming race for fillies and mares 3 years old and up scheduled for one mile at Aqueduct.

Ichiban, trained by Linda Rice, went 3 for 3 against New York-breds at Saratoga, winning a maiden race going seven furlongs on July 15, a first-level allowance going 1 1/8 miles on July 26, and the $200,000 Fleet Indian, also at 1 1/8 miles on Aug. 27.