ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Bob Baffert this week said Dortmund would run in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, but another major decision regarding that horse is pending. Baffert said Rafael Bejarano would not ride Dortmund in the Breeders’ Cup, but he had yet to decide who would replace him.

Bejarano rode Dortmund in his last two races, a third in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar and a second in the Grade 1 Awesome Again at Santa Anita. Both races were won by California Chrome.

ARCADIA, Calif. – One day it’s Beholder and Songbird, the next day Stellar Wind. So it goes these days at Santa Anita, as the three locally based Eclipse Award winners continue their preparations for what is shaping up as an epic showdown in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff here on Nov. 4.

Beholder and Songbird both had works Thursday. On Friday, on an inky morning with the darkness mixed with fog, Stellar Wind took to the track for a half-mile drill in 48.40 seconds under exercise rider Jose Contreras.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Paid Up Subscriber is being considered for a turnback in distance in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint after finishing second to I’m a Chatterbox in the 1 1/8-mile Spinster last Sunday at Keeneland.

Trainer Al Stall Jr. said “everything will have to be perfect with the horse” for Paid Up Subscriber to run Nov. 5 in the Filly and Mare Sprint, to be run at seven furlongs at Santa Anita.

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Cathryn Sophia, winner of this year's Kentucky Oaks, will not compete in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint as scheduled. She instead will be sold at the Fasig-Tipton November sale in Lexington, Ky.

Chuck Zacney, the owner of Cathryn Sophia, entered her in the sale in August. On Thursday evening, Zacney confirmed he has decided to sell her at the auction. Cathryn Sophia will be part of the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Haveyougoneaway, a top contender for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, blazed five furlongs in 58.55 seconds over the Belmont Park main track Thursday.

With exercise rider Orlando Tapia in the irons, Haveyougoneaway went her first quarter in 24.85 seconds and got her final three furlongs in 33.70 under mild urging. She galloped out six furlongs in 1:11.31.

It was Haveyougoneaway’s third and most serious work since her victory in the Grade 1 Ballerina at Saratoga on Aug. 27.

MIAMI – Veteran jockey Cornelio Velasquez will be going halfway around the world to ride for the next five months, but he still won’t be straying too far away from his big horse, the undefeated 2-year-old Three Rules.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A summer feel-good story – a 25-year-old rookie trainer winning the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante with a maiden filly owned by her father – took an unexpected turn this week at Santa Anita.

Trainer Shelbe Ruis and her father, Mick Ruis, have severed their business relationship, and 19 horses Ruis trained were transferred to trainer Craig Dollase, including Debutante winner Union Strike.

ARCADIA, Calif. – When Masochistic starts as one of the top contenders in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 5, it will be his first start in more than two months, so he had what trainer Ron Ellis called a “small dress rehearsal” on Thursday at Santa Anita. With Mike Smith aboard, Masochistic worked a quick half-mile from the gate in 45.20 seconds, the fastest time of 45 works at the distance.

“He was just going easy,” Ellis said. “Mike said his ears were pricked, and he was real relaxed. He came out of his last race great, and he runs well fresh.”

LEXINGTON, Ky. – There’s not a specific Breeders’ Cup race or an Eclipse Award to determine which 3-year-old filly is superior on turf in any given year.

For 2016, anyway, that can be left to the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup. Catch a Glimpse had been the unquestioned leader in this narrow niche, but when Time and Motion defeated her at Saratoga on the same August weekend that Harmonize won the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks, well, suddenly there was something to argue about.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Two of the leading candidates for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff worked minutes apart Thursday at Santa Anita while their trainers had fun monitoring each other’s activity.

Beholder worked a half-mile in 49 seconds, breezing, for Richard Mandella. Songbird worked five furlongs in 58.60 for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.

Beholder’s work was planned for immediately after the 6:30 a.m. renovation break. Upon learning that Songbird also was scheduled to work, Mandella jokingly said, “Tell [Hollendorfer] we’ll meet up at the half.”