ARCADIA, Calif. – At intervals of a little more than an hour on Wednesday, Dortmund, Noted and Quoted, and Klimt had key workouts at Santa Anita for Breeders’ Cup races on Nov. 4-5.

The three Grade 1 stakes winners, all trained by Bob Baffert, figure to be prominent in the betting for their respective races. Dortmund, who worked a half-mile in 47.40 seconds, will start in the BC Dirt Mile on Nov. 4. Noted and Quoted, who worked five furlongs in 1:00, is bound for the BC Juvenile Fillies on Nov. 5, the same day Klimt runs in the BC Juvenile.

Since the inception of the Breeders’ Cup as a year-end event to attract top horses from the world over, the turf events have done their part, attracting standout European-based runners who have established themselves as champions here.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The horses headed west for the Breeders’ Cup to potentially take on the likes of locally based California Chrome and Arrogate are about to begin their journeys or are here already, with Frosted completing his serious New York-based training on Wednesday, while Gun Runner has arrived for a key workout this weekend.

Usually, a long road trip for trainer Charlton Baker and his horses means going from Finger Lakes to Belmont Park or vice versa. But Baker and his 7-year-old gelding Joking soon will embark on a serious road trip, boarding flights for Southern California to compete in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint on Nov. 5.

Baker, 50, has transformed the former claimer Joking into one of the nation’s premier sprinters, with the gelded son of Unbridled Humor capping a four-race win streak this month with a victory in the Vosburgh to give the Jamaican-born horseman the first Grade 1 win of his career.

ARCADIA, Calif. – While foreign shippers have won many Breeders’ Cup races on grass, only a handful have won on dirt. Arcangues, Arazi, Sheikh Albadou, and Calidoscopio won Breeders’ Cup races on dirt in their first start in North America. It is not impossible.

But at least one Breeders’ Cup race on dirt has proven elusive – the Distaff for fillies and mares. Eight foreign shippers have tried the Distaff. None has hit the board.

Two high-class 3-year-old fillies – one in Europe, the other from America – were withdrawn from consideration this week for the Nov. 5 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita.

So Mi Dar, whose lone defeat in five starts came when third in the Prix de l’Opera on Oct. 2, was announced as out Tuesday by numerous British racing publications, and then on Wednesday, trainer Jimmy Toner confirmed that Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup winner Time and Motion also would bypass the Breeders’ Cup.

A waiting game is about to begin for some owners and trainers with hopefuls for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 4.

There are likely to be approximately 20 fillies pre-entered for the one-mile race next week, with a maximum of 14 allowed to start. When the list of pre-entries is announced next Wednesday, several runners will be on an also-eligible list, waiting to see if there are defections from the list of invited runners before entries are taken Oct. 31.

Champion sprinter Runhappy worked a mile in 1:39 on Wednesday at Keeneland, his final local move before heading to California for the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile.

Christophe Clement and Graham Motion are considering the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies for their recent Grade 1 winners, but both horsemen are taking a cautious approach and are keeping close tabs on how their horses recover from their races.

Clement conditions Yellow Agate, the winner of the Oct. 8 Frizette Stakes at Belmont Park. Motion trains Dancing Rags, who won the Alcibiades the previous day. The races are part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series, giving Yellow Agate and Dancing Rags fees-paid berths in the Juvenile Fillies.

Stonetastic has been declared out of the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint following a runner-up finish as the favorite Oct. 8 in the Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes at Keeneland.

“We needed a lot of scenarios to go right to convince us to go,” said Kelly Breen, who trains Stonetastic for the Stoneway Farm of Jim Stone. “We just couldn’t get enough stars to align. If she would’ve won at Keeneland, we probably would’ve gone, but she didn’t. That was the main thing.”