ARCADIA, Calif. - As expected, Saturday’s $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint attracted a full field of 14 speedsters, including defending champion Amazombie, when entries were drawn Monday at Santa Anita. It just was not the exact same 14 many figured to be in the starting lineup when pre-entries had been taken for the race one week earlier.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Groupie Doll is beginning to look like one of the most reliable favorites of the 2012 Breeders’ Cup.

The favorite for the $1 million Filly and Mare Sprint shipped from Kentucky without incident, galloped comfortably over the Santa Anita main track Sunday, and drew a favorable post (9 of 10) for the seven-furlong BC race that will be run Saturday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Steve Asmussen has one style of training, Doug O’Neill another. And Groupie Doll, well she has a style all her own.

ARCADIA, Calif. - One plane carrying Breeders' Cup horses made it from New York to California on Monday, but a second plane was “highly unlikely” to take off on Tuesday morning as scheduled due to Hurricane Sandy, according to a representative of the equine air carrier Tex Sutton.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Already billed as an East versus West showdown between Dreaming of Julia and Executiveprivilege, the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies picked up two major players from both coasts Monday morning.

Kauai Katie, undefeated in three starts, and Beholder, she of the 108 Beyer Speed Figure earned in a six-furlong allowance race at Santa Anita on Oct. 4, entered the eight-horse Juvenile Fillies field Monday afternoon. Both horses had also been pre-entered in the Juvenile Sprint and at least Beholder was believed to be pointing that way until Monday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Game On Dude drew post 5 on Monday and was installed the favorite for Saturday’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, the richest and final race of the 15-race festival at Santa Anita on Friday and Saturday.

A field of 12 went in the 1 1/4-mile Classic after the filly Royal Delta remained, as expected, in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic, and Dullahan opted for the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

Jon White, the morning-line maker at Santa Anita, made Game On Dude the 9-5 favorite. Flat Out and Fort Larned are next at 5-1, with Ron the Greek the fourth choice at 6-1.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Sky Lantern, who might be favored in the $1 million Juvenile Fillies Turf on Friday, shipped to Santa Anita from England this past weekend. By all accounts her flight went fine, and Sky Lantern was scheduled for her first North American training session Tuesday morning. So far, so good. But her trainer, Richard Hannon, surely won’t rest easy until Sky Lantern has come through her race without incident.

ARCADIA, Calif. - With the two ultra-fast fillies, Kauai Katie and Beholder, taking a pass on the $500,000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint in favor of the $2 million BC Juvenile Fillies, the outlook for the Juvenile Sprint changed dramatically Monday.

Two colts with limited experience – Super Ninety Nine and Merit Man – now will be favored in the six-furlong race, which leads off the 15-race Breeders’ Cup as the first of six Friday BC events.

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For the fourth year, the New Vocations racehorse retraining and adoption program has received pledges from Breeders’ Cup owners and trainers who will donate a percentage of their purse earnings at the event Nov. 2-3 at Santa Anita.

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