ARCADIA, Calif. – Joking, who went from being a $20,000 claimer to a Grade 1 winner, was entered Monday for Saturday’s $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint but is not expected to run after developing a temperature last Friday upon his arrival to Southern California, according to Charlton Baker, his owner and trainer.

Joking has not been to the track since arriving at Santa Anita on Friday, and Baker said it would take "divine intervention" for the horse to run in the Sprint.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bob Baffert said he needs Klimt to be sharper earlier in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile than he was in the FrontRunner Stakes a month ago.

On Monday, Klimt went a solid half-mile in 47.32 seconds over the main track at Santa Anita. Working in company with the maiden Master Play, Klimt went in splits of 11.79 seconds and 23.27 and galloped out five furlongs in 1:00.66.

ARCADIA, Calif. – California Chrome and Arrogate, the top two choices on the morning line for the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday at Santa Anita, both gave every indication on Monday morning that they are set to give their best in their much-anticipated battle.

California Chrome merely galloped in his first morning here after traveling on Sunday from his base at Los Alamitos, but he looked terrific doing it, while Arrogate turned in a sensational workout in his final prep for the Classic. Effinex, the runner-up in last year’s Classic, also worked.

ARCADIA, Calif. – By the Moon was flown to Santa Anita from her New York base on Oct. 4, a full month prior to the Breeders’ Cup. It’s a different approach – the vast majority of shippers don’t arrive until much later – but owner Samantha Siegel and trainer Michelle Nevin thought it was a good idea for a filly who figures as one of the fringe contenders Saturday in the BC Filly and Mare Sprint.

Freshman sire Gemologist is on the rise this fall, and his fortunes at the Breeders’ Cup are tied to another rising entity, the China Horse Club, and its partnership with his home, WinStar Farm.

The China Horse Club owns, solely or in partnership, three unbeaten 2-year-olds who will be standouts in their respective Breeders’ Cup events in Yellow Agate (Juvenile Fillies), Theory (Juvenile), and Good Samaritan (Juvenile Turf).

ARCADIA, Calif. – Her status as one of the handful of Grade 1 winners in the field makes Union Strike one of the horses to beat Saturday in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita. As a romping winner of the Del Mar Debutante on Sept. 3, she clearly has the credentials to be a major threat in the 1 1/16-mile race.

ARCADIA, Calif. – He’s back in the Breeders’ Cup – obviously.

Obviously, an 8-year-old gelding, is set to become just the fifth horse to make five Breeders’ Cup starts when he races in the Turf Sprint on Saturday. And this is no vanity entry. Obviously has won only once in four starts this year, but that win was a strong one, in the Poker at Belmont, and his defeats, two seconds and a third, all were admirable performances.

ARCADIA, Calif. – David Hofmans hiked into the box seats at Santa Anita the other morning to watch Melatonin work, reached into his pocket, and realized he’d left his stopwatch in the tack room back at his barn.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Alphabet Soup doesn’t like to be passed.

“At night, when I come home and it’s dark, I open up the gate, and first I hear him and then see him – he kind of glows in the dark,” Old Friends founder and president Michael Blowen said. “He comes over, and it’s like paying a toll on the Massachusetts Turnpike – I’ve got to feed him a carrot in order to get up the hill.”

ARCADIA, California – Bill Mott was dead lame Sunday morning, but the two horses he worked for the Breeders’ Cup, Carina Mia and Tourist, looked much better.

Tourist, who will be making his third Breeders’ Cup Mile start, worked a half-mile on dirt in 47.89 seconds, out five furlongs in 1:00.56, according to Daily Racing Form clocker Mike Welsch. Carina Mia, who figures to be among the favorites in the Filly and Mare Sprint, went the same distance in 47.91, out five furlongs in 1:00.74.