ELMONT, N.Y. - In Main Sequence, trainer Graham Motion has a top-flight contender for the $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf. Unfortunately, it appears as though he will need a new rider for his three-time Grade 1 winning colt.

One race after Main Sequence won Saturday’s $600,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic at Belmont Park, his rider, Rajiv Maragh, went down in the Jockey Club Gold Cup and suffered a broken right arm. Maragh underwent surgery on Sunday, but it is highly unlikely the 29-year-old rider will  be able to make it back in five weeks.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Shared Belief emerged in good condition from his eventful, winning journey in the Awesome Again Stakes on Saturday, but his trainer and co-owner, Jerry Hollendorfer, on Sunday morning at Santa Anita said the hard race would likely cause him to train Shared Belief differently than anticipated prior to his next start, the Breeders’ Cup Classic here on Nov. 1.

“I guess a good, hard race isn’t ideal, but I won’t have to train him as hard as I normally do,” Hollendorfer said.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Tonalist and Zivo, the first two finishers from Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup, will both be pointed to the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, but will both do all their major preparations in New York before shipping to Southern California the week of the race, their trainers said Sunday morning.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The decision of trainer Todd Pletcher to send Angela Renee to California to get a two-turn race into her paid off handsomely on Saturday at Santa Anita when Angela Renee captured the Grade 1, $300,500 Chandelier Stakes for 2-year-old fillies.

 The victory gave Angela Renee a fees-paid berth to the Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies through the Win and You’re In program.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Emollient ended a disappointing summer campaign with her fourth career Grade 1 win in Saturday’s $301,750 Rodeo Drive Stakes for fillies and mares at Santa Anita.

The win was somewhat overshadowed by the fall of Moulin de Mougin on the turn. Moulin de Mougin was attempting a wide rally when she appeared to lose her balance and fall, sending jockey Mike Smith tumbling to the turf.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The suburb where Santa Anita is located is a tony, genteel town, not known for crime. But there was an attempted mugging on Saturday. The intended victim, though, was able to fend off his attackers.

ARCADIA, Calif. - American Pharoah led throughout the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity over seven furlongs on Sept. 3 to record his first career win. He used the same tactics to win Saturday’s $300,750 FrontRunner Stakes over 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita, a victory expected to make him the favorite for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile here on Nov. 1.

That is a role trainer Bob Baffert said American Pharoah deserves after his two major stakes wins. The victories are a contrast to a fifth-place finish in his debut at Del Mar on Aug. 9.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Beholder did not need a brilliant performance Saturday in the Grade 1 Zenyatta Stakes at Santa Anita to move toward the Breeder’s Cup.

All she needed was to run well. Mission accomplished.

Beholder ($2.80) scored a workmanlike comeback victory, winning the $300,000 race by three-quarters of a length. The pacesetting Tiz Midnight finished second, 3 1/4 lengths in front of Iotapa, whose chances were compromised by a poor start.

ELMONT, N.Y. – He began his career in Panama and called California home for more than two years, but Private Zone is a New Yorker at heart.

For the second year in a row, Private Zone came East to prepare for the Breeders’ Cup, and for the second year in a row, he put forth a game performance to win the Grade 1, $400,000 Vosburgh Stakes at Belmont Park by a neck, thus earning a fees-paid berth into the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 1.

Private Prospect, who won his first three starts before finishing second by a nose in the Arlington-Washington Futurity, is an intended runner in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, trainer Mike Campbell said.