Total commingled handle for the 10 races at Santa Anita on Friday, including six Breeders' Cup races, was down 5 percent compared with the Friday card at Churchill Downs last year, according to figures released by Breeders' Cup.

The decline, from $50.05 million last year to $47.58 million this year, was the second consecutive drop in handle for the Friday card, which was added when Breeders' Cup expanded to 11 races in 2007. Since then, the number of Breeders' Cup races has increased to 15, with six on Friday and nine on Saturday.

On a day when Royal Delta delivered a brilliant performance to defeat an all-star field in the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic, one of the prime topics of conversation at Santa Anita was not about horses. It was about the drug Lasix.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said that Questing, who was eased entering the backstretch and subsequently vanned off following Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Ladies' Classic, showed no signs of any serious injury after being examined upon returning to her barn.

“She cooled out fine,” said McLaughlin, who trains Questing for Godolphin Racing. “She has no major injuries. She was never on the bridle. She just did not want to perform today.”

McLaughlin said Questing would ship out to Kentucky on Monday.

ARCADIA, Calif. - It was a disappointing ending to what had been a terrific day for trainer Chad Brown.

On top of the world after saddling Zagora to a victory in Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, Brown was knocked down a few pegs when Awesome Feather, unbeaten in 10 previous starts, finished sixth, 10 lengths behind Royal Delta in the $2 million Ladies’ Classic at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Royal Delta rewarded one lucky pick-six bettor with a $773,865 payday by virtue of her two-length victory over My Miss Aurelia in Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic.

Royal Delta was one of only two horses covered in the Breeders’ Cup pick six along with Grace Hall, who finished fourth in the Ladies’ Classic. A victory by any of the other six fillies and mares in the race would have created a huge carryover going into the second day of the 2012 Breeders’ Cup.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The best horse won the best race on Breeders’ Cup Friday at Santa Anita, and she did it surprising fashion.

Royal Delta ($5.40) became the second filly or mare to win the Ladies’ Classic in consecutive years with a heads-up ride from Mike Smith, whose 16th Breeders’ Cup win makes him the all-time Breeders’ Cup leader.

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ARCADIA, Calif. – Zagora ended her career at the top of the American female turf division.

Making her final start before she is scheduled to be sold Monday evening at the Fasig-Tipton November sale in Kentucky, Zagora won Friday’s $1,818,000 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita, the richest and most prestigious victory of her career.

With the win, she essentially clinched the Eclipse Award as the nation’s champion turf female of 2012.

ARCADIA, Calif. - As usual, Richard Mandella made the right call.

Faced with the options of running the speedy Beholder in the $500,000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint or the $2 million Juvenile Fillies, Mandella went for the Juvenile Fillies.

He and owner B. Wayne Hughes were rewarded for that decision when Beholder, ridden by Garrett Gomez, scored a one-length front-running victory over Executiveprivilege in the Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita.[bc_video_id:267185:]

ARCADIA, Ca. – Flotilla was bred in France, trains in France, and before this week, had only raced in France. It has been a wet year in France: All four of Flotilla’s starts there came on courses rated soft or something close to it. Friday, at fast-playing, very firm Santa Anita, the French filly Flotilla sparkled, closing fiercely under Christophe Lemaire to gun down Watsdachances in the final furlong and win the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf by 1 1/4 lengths.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Calidoscopio became the oldest winner in the history of the Breeders’ Cup while briefly turning Santa Anita racetrack into a soccer pitch in South America after cruising to an easy 4 1/2-length victory over fellow longshot Grassy in Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Marathon.