Joel Rosario, who has ridden four of the eight runners aiming to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, will stay with Frizette winner Jaywalk in the Breeders’ Cup. Irad Ortiz has picked up the mount from Rosario on Spinaway winner Sippican Harbor.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A storm that brought rain, along with thunder and lightning, stretching from San Diego to Los Angeles forced the closure of the main track at Santa Anita on Saturday morning, a day when a number of horses preparing for the Breeders' Cup, including Classic contenders Accelerate and West Coast, were scheduled to have workouts.

With the main track closed, training was confined to the training track, and only a handful of horses were scheduled to work on it.

The main track was sealed in advance of the afternoon's races.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Forty Under, winner of the Pilgrim Stakes, worked a half-mile in 48.57 seconds Friday morning over the Oklahoma dirt training track at Saratoga in preparation for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf. The track, which had some moisture in it, was labeled “good.”

Trainer Jeremiah Englehart put Forty Under in company with Prince of New York, a maiden New York-bred, and said he got the desired result from both horses.

“I was really happy with him today,” Englehart said of Forty Under. “He showed more energy than in his works in the past.”

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Concrete Rose ran herself right into the Breeders’ Cup with a dominant performance Wednesday in the 28th running of the Grade 2, $200,000 Jessamine Stakes on the Keeneland turf.

Ridden by Jose Lezcano, Concrete Rose rated just off the pace in the 1 1/16-mile turf race before putting the issue at rest leaving the furlong pole to stay unbeaten in two career starts with her three-length triumph over Pakhet.

Discreet Lover, winner of the Grade 1 Jockey Gold Cup 11 days ago, worked a half-mile at Parx Racing on Wednesday morning and is expected to be removed from the veterinarian's list when his blood work returns, according to trainer Uriah St. Lewis.

The Jockey Club Gold Cup is part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series and earned Discreet Lover a fees-paid berth in the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3.

If you were looking for clarity in the Breeders’ Cup Mile three weeks out from the race – well, keep on peering into the fog.

In the Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile on Oct. 6 at Keeneland the top three betting choices finished fourth, eighth, and 11th. Next Shares, a 23-1 shot, came through a gaping hole along the rail at the top of the stretch and powered home to win by 4 1/2 lengths. “Powered” probably is the wrong word. Over a course rated good, it took Next Shares almost 24.75 seconds to run his final quarter-mile, a relative eternity by top-class turf-mile standards.

City of Light will bring a good deal of upside into the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 3 at Churchill Downs – despite the fact that he’s already a multiple Grade 1 winner and millionaire.

“He’s lightly raced, still developing, getting better all the time,” trainer Michael McCarthy said.

Only three trainers have won more Breeders’ Cup races than Bill Mott, whose 10 successes include two victories in the Classic, with Cigar in 1995 and with Drosselmeyer in 2011, the last time the Breeders’ Cup was run at Churchill Downs, host of this year’s event.

As with Drosselmeyer, who was 14-1, Mott will take aim at this year’s Classic on Nov. 3 with a longshot, Yoshida, who is 12-1 on the early line from Mike Watchmaker, Daily Racing Form’s national handicapper.

The American cast pointed toward the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf on Nov. 3 at Churchill Downs is shaping up short of participants.

U.S.-campaigned horses comprise only five of the 13 leading prospects Daily Racing Form considers possible for the race, and of those, only Sistercharlie, Fourstar Crook, and longshot Mom’s On Strike seem more likely to run than not. The other two, Santa Monica and Vasilika, seem like only outside chances to compete.

Trainers work throughout the summer and fall to find the proper niche for their 2-year-olds. Is an individual suited for sprints or routes – on turf, dirt, or either? The addition of the Juvenile Turf Sprint to the Breeders’ Cup program has provided another outlet to strategize and to maximize a horse’s opportunity.