ELMONT, N.Y. – Cavorting, a three-time Grade 1-winning filly who was pointing to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff next month at Santa Anita, has developed bruising of the cannon bones in her front ankles and has been retired, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin and Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Farms said Thursday.

McLaughlin said Cavorting appeared off in the last few mornings, and further evaluation revealed the problem. Cavorting had been expected to run in the Breeders' Cup Distaff on Nov. 5 at Santa Anita.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Book another one on that westbound plane.

Ridden by Florent Geroux, La Coronel became the latest Breeders’ Cup starter for the Mark Casse stable after a thoroughly dominant performance Wednesday as the 19-10 favorite in the 26th running of the Grade 3, $150,000 Jessamine Stakes on another picture-perfect afternoon at Keeneland.

“After she broke her maiden at Saratoga, Florent came back and said, ‘I think we have another Catch a Glimpse,’” said Casse, referring to the filly he sent out to win the 2015 BC Juvenile Fillies Turf.

There is nothing whatsoever sexist about the Breeders’ Cup Mile, an open race that in its 32-year history has been won nine times by a filly or mare, and this year’s edition could attract a record number of female participants.

In Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf action last weekend, Big Score asserted himself as the leading California hope for the race, Keep Quiet looked like the best in the Midwest, Ticonderoga showed that he remains a talented work in progress, and everyone still was waiting to find out whom trainer Aidan O’Brien planned to send.

The last major stepping-stones toward the Nov. 5 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf come this weekend at Keeneland, Woodbine, and Ascot in Britain.

The 3-year-old Seventh Heaven, considered one of the top European hopes for the Filly and Mare Turf, is entered in Saturday’s QIPCO British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes at Ascot, though as of Wednesday, trainer Aidan O’Brien had not decided whether she will run.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Runhappy was sent through his first breeze Wednesday here since finishing fourth as a heavy favorite in the Oct. 1 Ack Ack at Churchill, his first start in more than nine months. Runhappy, last year’s sprint champion, went a mile in 1:38.80.

Gary Stevens, who will ride the 4-year-old colt in the Nov. 4 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, was flown in from California to be aboard for the work.

“The trip was worth it,” said Stevens.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Long before American Pharoah arrived, and then left, before Dortmund came along, and then Arrogate, too, there has been Hoppertunity, the old reliable of trainer Bob Baffert’s barn.

For the better part of three years now, Hoppertunity has faced the best in the world, and while he only earned his second Grade 1 victory last Saturday in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park, he has now won five stakes races, more than $3.5 million, and has earned a fees-paid berth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Nov. 5.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Acapulco was a surprise no-show in the entries for the Franklin County Stakes here Friday, a race that was supposed to serve as a stepping-stone to the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint for the 3-year-old filly.

Trainer Wesley Ward said he still intends to make the Nov. 5 Turf Sprint at Santa Anita.

“She came out of her last work a little more tired than I wanted to see,” said Ward. “We’ll just have to go into the Breeders’ Cup without a prep.”

The Grade 1, $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile picked up a major player this week when trainer Bob Baffert said Dortmund is being pointed to the Nov. 4 race at Santa Anita.

Dortmund has been chasing Breeders’ Cup Classic favorite California Chrome in his last three starts, finishing second to him in the San Diego at Del Mar, third to him in the Pacific Classic at Del Mar, and second to him in the Awesome Again in his most recent start Oct. 1 at Santa Anita.

“That Chrome, he’s tough to beat,” Baffert said. “We took him on – tried off the pace, going with him.”

Favorite Tale was scratched out of a $90,000, no-conditions allowance sprint at Parx Racing last Saturday due to a foot abscess, according to trainer Lupe Preciado. Favorite Tale was going to use the race as a prep for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.

Preciado said Favorite Tale missed three or four days of training due to the abscess and returned to the track Monday.

“It’s going to take a while to get him right again,” Preciado said. “We missed his prep race last weekend and will not be able to make the Breeders’ Cup.”