ARCADIA, Calif. – El Tigre Terrible, the surprise winner of the Speakeasy Stakes for 2-year-olds at five furlongs on turf on Sunday, is scheduled to start in the $200,000 Golden State Juvenile for statebreds at seven furlongs on dirt at Santa Anita on Nov. 1.

El Tigre Terrible earned an automatic berth in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint with the win at 23-1 in the Speakeasy Stakes, but would have to be nominated to the Breeders’ Cup program at a cost of $100,000 by Oct. 21, the day pre-entries are due.

ARCADIA, Calif. – McKinzie and Mitole shared the racetrack for workouts at Santa Anita early Thursday morning. They may share the winner’s circle here a few hours apart on Nov. 2.

McKinzie and Mitole are leading contenders for Breeders’ Cup races and had separate tune-up workouts at a half-mile on Thursday. They worked just after dawn.

McKinzie, bound for the $6 million BC Classic at 1 1/4 miles, worked a half-mile in 49.40 seconds, his first workout since his second as the favorite to longshot Mongolian Groom in the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes here on Sept. 28.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – On paper, the 29th Jessamine Stakes looked like it might unfold in any manner of ways – but once the field of 14 2-year-old fillies straightened away down the backstretch of the Keeneland turf course, it was nothing but a one-filly race.

Sweet Melania, ridden by Jose Ortiz, dominated from the five-furlong pole to the wire, earning the 10th and last Win and You’re In berth to the Breeders’ Cup of this meet by virtue of a record-setting romp Wednesday in the Grade 2, $200,000 Jessamine.

The Grade 1, $1 million Shadwell Turf Mile on Saturday at Keeneland was the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Win and You’re In race linked to the Breeders’ Cup Mile, and all credit to Bowies Hero for a convincing, professional victory there that punched his Breeders’ Cup ticket.

Love, the 2-year-old filly trained by Aidan O’Brien, earned a berth in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Nov. 1 at Santa Anita by winning the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes in Ireland on Sept. 15.

If she is sent to California, Love will have had a tough autumn campaign. Friday at Newmarket Racecourse in England, Love is part of a strong field of nine in the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile that includes three undefeated runners – Cayenne Pepper, Quadrilateral, and Powerful Breeze.

Sometime Tuesday, Dan Blacker, an English expatriate trainer based in California, got in touch with Brendan Walsh, an Irish expatriate trainer based in Kentucky. Was Walsh, Blacker wondered, planning on sending the 2-year-old Vitalogy to the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf? And if he was, might he reconsider?

Unlike the other Breeders’ Cup races contested on turf, Europeans have made little noise in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, with every edition of the race since it was added to the program in 2008 captured by a U.S.-based runner. That may continue to be the case this year, as the top runners from various international jurisdictions aren’t likely to make the trip to California.

ARCADIA, Calif. – There was something familiar about Midnight Bisou’s half-mile work Monday at Santa Anita, 51.60 seconds under exercise rider Angel Garcia. The favorite for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff was working for the first time since returning to California.

“An easy half to get acquainted with the racetrack,” assistant trainer Scott Blasi said. “She bounced off the racetrack. That’s exactly how we wanted her to feel.”

The decision by the connections of Mongolian Groom to make him eligible to the Breeders’ Cup Classic by paying a nomination fee of $200,000 seems a steep price to pay, but in fact he could have gotten in earlier for a far cheaper price, and the Breeders’ Cup has made the process much more affordable than in its earlier days.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Fair Maiden, third in the Grade 1 Natalma Stakes for 2-year-old fillies on Sept. 15 at Woodbine, will be ridden by jockey Drayden Van Dyke in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Nov. 1 at Santa Anita, trainer Eoin Harty said Friday.

Van Dyke, who through Sunday was tied for the lead in the jockey standings at the Santa Anita autumn meeting with Abel Cedillo, will be Fair Maiden’s fourth rider in as many starts.