Mico Margarita and Heitai made for a dramatic one-two finish in last month’s $150,000 Remington Park Sprint Championship, each earning a triple-digit Beyer Speed Figure. Now, the pair is heading down different roads.

Mico Margarita is scheduled to make his next start in the Grade 1, $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 1, trainer Steve Asmussen said Monday. Heitai’s focus moving forward will be turf racing, according to trainer Karl Broberg.

When Big Cazanova went to New York last month for the Jockey Club Gold Cup, trainer Peter Miller was hoping to learn just how far the South American import had progressed. But Miller said he never got the chance to find out, and he’s willing to try once more, this time on racing’s biggest late-season stage.

The winners of last weekend’s Breeders’ Cup challenge races for the Grade 1, $1 million Juvenile Turf appear headed in different directions. Lawn Ranger, who won the Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland, is on board for the Breeders’ Cup, while Full Mast, placed first in the Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp, is calling it a season.

The races were the final Win and You’re In preps for the BC Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita on Oct. 31.

The landscape of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile field changed over the weekend, but one thing that remained the same is that trainers Bob Baffert and Todd Pletcher once again will be front and center in the $2 million race.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The field for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff was expected to be trimmed, and the odds for early favorite Close Hatches were expected to drop. Instead, the opposite occurred over the weekend.

Close Hatches misfired Sunday at Keeneland, finishing fourth as the 1-5 favorite in the Grade 1 Spinster Stakes. It was the first loss of the season for the Bill Mott-trained, Juddmonte Farms-owned filly.

Her Emmynency stamped herself as a serious contender for the Grade 1, $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf with an impressive win in the $100,000 Surfer Girl at Santa Anita on Sunday. With Joe Talamo aboard, she stalked the early pace while sitting behind horses along the rail, and when a hole opened up at the top of the stretch, she burst to the lead with an eye-catching move.

Wise Dan has been favored in his last 17 starts and an odds-on favorite in 15 of them, and after winning the Shadwell Turf Mile by one length Saturday, he will be favored again when he tries to win the Breeders’ Cup Mile for the third straight year.

Wise Dan had his head turned when the gate sprang in the Shadwell, but that was the last anxious moment he had. He won comfortably without having to run especially hard or escape trouble and seems to have bounced out of his race in great shape.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Phil Sims now can lay claim to two of the most prestigious races at his home track, and that’s all right with him.

Sims, based at Keeneland since 1980, won the Grade 1 Spinster on Sunday with Don’t Tell Sophia, bookending his 2009 win in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup with Hot Cha Cha.

“Yeah, we just keep chugging along, picking up a nice one every now and then,” Sims, 52, said Monday. “I really appreciate all the well-wishes I’ve been getting. It makes all the time and effort you put into this game worthwhile.”

Although narrowly beaten for the second straight year in the $300,000 Santa Anita Sprint Championship on Saturday, defending Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile titlist Goldencents seemed to solidify his status as the one to beat again this year.

Goldencents pressed a strong pace of 21.98 and 44.25 seconds in the six-furlong race and drew off through midstretch beneath Rafael Bejarano but was caught at the wire by the Hong Kong-based Rich Tapestry as the 4-5 favorite.

For all the drama and excitement of Sunday’s Group 1 Prix de l’Opera at Longchamp – in which the top four finishers were three necks apart – the race, at least in the immediate wake of the running, seemingly did little to alter the European cast expected to participate in the Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita.