ARCADIA, Calif. – Although they’ve seemingly been in each other’s orbit for two seasons, the paths of the 4-year-olds Improbable and Maximum Security have only crossed once previously, in last year’s Kentucky Derby. It was a wholly unsatisfying endeavor for both, with Improbable, the race favorite, crossing the wire fifth, and Maximum Security, who crossed the wire first, having that result go far south 22 minutes later.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Gamine, the beaten favorite in the Kentucky Oaks earlier this month, will return to one-turn racing for the remainder of the year, with the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Keeneland on Nov. 7 her next target, trainer Bob Baffert said Wednesday morning at Santa Anita.

Gamine is back at Santa Anita, where she is galloping daily as part of an easy training schedule exiting the Oaks.

ARCADIA, Calif. – United will seek to make amends for his lone loss this year when he starts as a heavy favorite on Saturday in the Grade 2, $200,000 John Henry Turf Championship, a 1 1/4-mile grass race for which he tuned up on Wednesday morning at Santa Anita with a three-furlong drill in 37.20 seconds under his regular rider, Flavien Prat.

The work came just five days after United worked six furlongs here in 1:14.80,

“Just wanted to sharpen him up,” said his trainer, Richard Mandella. “Just needed to add a little more to his work the other day.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Dale Romans can well remember when Pat Byrne swept the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Juvenile Fillies in 1997 at Hollywood Park with Favorite Trick and Countess Diana.

“I’d love to do that at Keeneland this fall,” said Romans.

Toward that end, Romans will have Sittin On Go and Girl Daddy making their respective next starts in the Nov. 6 BC Juvenile and Juvenile Fillies at Keeneland. Both are slated for their first breezes Saturday at Churchill since accounting for their own sweep of the Iroquois and Pocahontas during Kentucky Derby week.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Starship Jubilee earned a fees-paid berth into the Breeders’ Cup in her emphatic victory in Saturday’s $1 million Woodbine Mile, and the venerable 7-year-old is probably headed for a Breeders’ Cup race at Keeneland.

A $16,000 claim by trainer Kevin Attard at Gulfstream in 2017, Starship Jubilee won the Grade 2 Canadian in each of the past two years, but Attard decided to bypass that nine-furlong stakes on Sept. 12 in favor of the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile after she had run twice at Saratoga.

ELMONT, N.Y. -- Making official what had been widely expected, Tiz the Law, the Kentucky Derby runner-up, will skip the Preakness Stakes on Oct. 3 and point to the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland on Nov. 7, trainer Barclay Tagg said Tuesday.

Pirate's Punch finished this summer with a graded stakes victory at Monmouth Park after all, winning the Grade 3, $150,000 Salvator Mile on Sunday to redeem himself for a disqualification last time out and to earn a shot at the Breeders' Cup.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The favored Lady Speightspeare made her stakes debut a winning one while earning a fees-paid berth into the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf in Sunday’s Grade 1, $253,000 Natalma at Woodbine.

Lady Speightspeare ($7) tracked pacesetter Big Big Plans through honest fractions in the one-mile test for 2-year-old fillies, with Dreaming of Drew stalking along the rail in third through the turn.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - After some anxious post-race moments, the favored Gretzky the Great punched his ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf by taking Sunday’s Grade 1 Summer Stakes at Woodbine.

Ready to Repeat went straight to the front and set moderate fractions in the one-mile turf event, as Gretzky the Great took up the chase in second.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Dreaming of Drew will meet Lady Speightspeare and five other promising 2-year-old fillies in Sunday’s Grade 1, $250,000 Natalma, a Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re in event at Woodbine for the Juvenile Fillies Turf.

Dreaming of Drew graduated second time out in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special on the Tapeta by six lengths, with an 81 Beyer Speed Figure. When switching to the main turf for the 6 1/2-furlong Catch a Glimpse Stakes on Aug. 23, she came from fourth to take the lead with a sixteenth left before getting caught on the wire by the shipper Alda.