You can look at the Turf Sprint two ways: a chance to reap profits sown by chaos, or a serious drag on a pick four ticket with a reasonable budget. I’ve got eight Turf Sprint horses on this ticket – 3 As, 3 Bs, 2 Cs – and still that doesn’t feel like enough. To keep the price tag from rising too high, hard stands are taken in both the Filly and Mare Turf and the Filly and Mare Sprint. Single As in both races keeps the all-A portion to a mere $4.50, and I plan to hit it two or three times.

Race 4 – Juvenile Filliies

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Rosie Napravnik stunned the racing world Friday by announcing her retirement after she rides at Santa Anita on Saturday.

Napravnik, 26, said she is pregnant.

“I am announcing my retirement,” Napravnik said at a post-race press conference. “My husband Joe [Sharp] and I will start a family. His career is brand new and thriving, so it’s kind of good timing.”

Sharp, a former assistant to Mike Maker, launched his own stable in early September.

Overall handle on the four Breeders’ Cup races held Friday at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., was $28.2 million, compared with handle of $34.9 million on five Friday Breeders’ Cup races held at the same track last year, according to charts of the races.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Meet the new queen of the distaff division, and say goodbye to a star female jockey.

Untapable overcame a wide trip and a stubborn pacesetter to win the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Friday at Santa Anita, stamping herself as a legitimate star in her first try against older fillies and mares.

As for jockey Rosie Napravnik, her surprise post-race revelation was that she is seven weeks’ pregnant and would retire from riding after this weekend.

ARCADIA, Calif. – From the first day he breezed her on turf, trainer Chad Brown thought Lady Eli was something special.

“I thought she was the best 2-year-old grass filly I’ve ever trained off that breeze,” Brown said. “And it’s proven to be true.”

Lady Eli demonstrated how special a filly she is for a third time this year Friday, galloping to a 2 3/4-length victory in the Grade 1, $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Come hell or high water, Goldencents was going to the early lead in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile.

In a brazen and brave display, the colt ultimately held off his lone stretch challenger after setting torrid fractions to become the first two-time winner of the $1 million BC Dirt Mile on Friday at Santa Anita.

Urged to the lead from the inside post by Rafael Bejarano, Goldencents was pushed by Vicar’s in Trouble through fractions of 22.06 and 44.80 seconds, a wicked pace that took its toll in view of a final time of 1:35.16 over a fast track.

ARCADIA, Calif. – If Wesley Ward can regularly train winners at Royal Ascot, it was only a matter of time before he trained a Breeders’ Cup winner. After a second, five thirds, and three fourths in Breeders’ Cup races, Ward’s wait ended Friday, when Hootenanny swept past another Ward-trained 2-year-old, Luck of the Kitten, to win the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Chitu, making his first start since finishing ninth in the May 3 Kentucky Derby, returned in sharp form to lead every step of the $100,000 Damascus Stakes, the final race leading into the four-race Breeders’ Cup program Friday at Santa Anita.

Ridden by Joel Rosario and trained by Bob Baffert, Chitu returned $9.20 as second choice in a field of 3-year-olds and upward after finishing seven furlongs in 1:21.66 over a fast track. Bahamian Squall was second and Unbridled’s Note was third.

ARCADIA, Calif. - A dream trip gave Cary Street an easy win in Friday’s $200,750 Las Vegas Marathon at Santa Anita, the first stakes of the two days of Breeders’ Cup races.

Cary Street, already proven to adore long-distance races, thrived over the 1 3/4 miles of the Las Vegas Marathon, closing from last in a field of eight to win by 9 1/4 lengths over Irish Surf, the 2-1 favorite. Cary Street ($7.80) was timed in 2:58.29.

I think four horses can win the $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf. TELESCOPE and FLINTSHIRE are high-quality Europeans that deserve to be favorites. MAIN SEQUENCE has won all three of his races in the United States, each a Grade 1, and he, too, can win. The fourth horse is HARDEST CORE, whose price will be higher than the other three, probably double Main Sequence’s and several times greater than the Euros’.