A European shipper has yet to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, but the drought could end in the fifth running of the race Nov. 2, when a host of runners from across the pond participate.

In all, 18 horses were pre-entered in the one-mile event, which went with a 12-horse field in the first two runnings of the race at Santa Anita. The first seven get in on points, and the others gain inclusion through the selection committee. Renee’s Queen is cross-entered with her first preference in the Juvenile Fillies

Went through the Breeders’ Cup pre-entries once quickly just to see if anything jumped off the page. Went through them again more slowly just to get a general feel for each race. Will go through them next looking for potential race shapes and how that might affect outcomes. This weekend, I will go through each race, watching videos of every contender and some not-so-obvious contenders.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The Breeders’ Cup on Wednesday tweaked the order of its nine races to be run at Santa Anita on Saturday, Nov. 3, the most significant change moving the Juvenile out of the late pick four and putting the Sprint in its place.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Led by five Breeders’ Cup winners from last year’s event, two from 2010, yet another from 2009, the 2011 Kentucky Derby winner, the 2011 Preakness winner, the best miler in Europe not named Frankel, and several leading candidates for Horse of the Year, including Game On Dude and the turf stars Point of Entry and Wise Dan, a total of 180 horses have been pre-entered in the 15 races that will make up the 29th Breeders’ Cup, to be held at Santa Anita Nov.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Nates Mineshaft, who recently was transferred to California and to trainer Richard Mandella, will miss the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and will be off indefinitely, Mandella said Tuesday.

“We found a problem and he needs time off, so we sent him home,” said Mandella, who declined to elaborate on the nature of the injury. “We’ll give him a little rest and try to get him back late next year.”

The three Breeders’ Cup runners trainer Ron Ellis will send out Nov. 2-3 at Santa Anita – Include Me Out, Rail Trip, and Teddy’s Promise – all worked at Betfair Hollywood Park on Tuesday as they moved closer to the richest races of their careers.

Belmont Park

Sunny, 55

Main track fast
Training track fast
Turf yielding

ELMONT, N.Y. – Monday morning was the Bill Mott and Chad Brown show at Belmont Park with eight of the nine prospective Breeders’ Cup starters to work coming from those two barns. The only other Breeders’ Cup worker was none other than the Shug McGaughey-trained Point of Entry, the leading U.S. contender for the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Chad Brown knows nothing is guaranteed when it comes to the Breeders’ Cup, but he feels he has legitimate chances with all six of the horses he pre-entered on Monday for this year’s 29th edition of the event.

On Monday, Brown said he had pre-entered Awesome Feather (Ladies’ Classic), Zagora (Filly and Mare Turf), Watsdachances (Juvenile Fillies Turf), Noble Tune and Balance the Books (Juvenile Turf), and Corporate Jungle (Turf Sprint) for the Breeders’ Cup, which will be conducted at Santa Anita on Nov. 2-3.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - It was an unforgettable weekend for jockey John McKee. On Friday, he and his wife, Shelly, had their first child, a boy named Max. On Saturday, McKee was thrown hard to the Keeneland Polytrack when his mount in the fourth race, Save the World, broke down.

On Sunday morning, with X-rays having proven negative for what initially was believed to be a broken hand, McKee was aboard Groupie Doll at Churchill when the star filly had another workout toward the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.