Lady of Shamrock, winner of the Grade 1 American and Del Mar Oaks, hasn’t left California this year, and with just three weeks to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf on Nov. 2, trainer John Sadler wasn’t ready to begin with Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland.

Instead, she will train up to the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita, with his feeling being that this will leave her better prepared for the Filly and Mare Turf, rather than going through racing and traveling back and forth from California to Kentucky.

Chad Brown holds a strong hand for the Juvenile Turf. There were two U.S. Win and You’re In races for this Breeders’ Cup event last holiday weekend, the Bourbon at Keeneland and the Pilgrim at Belmont, and Brown won both, with Balance the Books and Noble Tune, respectively.

Dale Romans said Shackleford, one of the top contenders for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, will be among his Saturday workers at Churchill Downs before his sizable Breeders’ Cup contingent leaves two days later on a charter flight to California.

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Trainer Tom Amoss has confirmed that Sum of the Parts will take advantage of the free ticket he earned by virtue of his victory last Saturday in Keeneland’s Win and You’re In Grade 3 Phoenix Stakes and will start in the Nov. 3 Breeders’ Cup Sprint. It will be Sum of the Parts’s second Breeders’ Cup appearance. He finished sixth after an eventful beginning in last year’s Juvenile Sprint.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – All of the European shippers are in the house for the three Grade 1 turf stakes here Sunday, Canadian International Day.

Reliable Man, trained by Alain de Royer-Dupre, checked in from France late Tuesday afternoon for the $1.5 million Canadian International, a 1 1/2-mile race for 3-year-olds and upward.

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For the second time in three years, trainer Todd Pletcher will have the favorite for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile when he ships Shanghai Bobby cross-country for the $2 million race.

In 2010, when the Breeders’ Cup was held at Churchill Downs, Pletcher won the Juvenile with Uncle Mo, who, like Shanghai Bobby, was coming off a win in the Grade 1 Champagne.

As it was for Uncle Mo, the Juvenile will be Shanghai Bobby’s first race around two turns.

“A lot of times, their best two-turn race is the first time around it,” Pletcher said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Wigmore Hall, who checked in following a flight from Amsterdam last Saturday for the Grade 1, $1.5 million Canadian International, certainly is no stranger to transatlantic travel.

Less than one month ago, Wigmore Hall won the Grade 1 Northern Dancer here a Woodbine over 1 1/2 miles of turf and then returned to his home base.

Just three weeks prior to that, Wigmore Hall had booked a return flight to Arlington and finished fourth in the Grade 1, 1 1/4-mile Arlington Million.

With the likes of Flat Out, Ron the Greek, and To Honor and Serve all pointing for the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 3 at Santa Anita, trainer Bill Mott will be attempting to win the Classic for the second straight year, having pulled off an upset last year with Drosselmeyer.

Only once, when Jay Robbins sent out Tiznow to victories in 2000 and 2001, has a trainer won the Classic in consecutive years. No trainer has ever won it in consecutive years with different horses.

Most of the major players for the Grade 1, $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies are confirmed for the Nov. 2 race at Santa Anita, but the field is still in flux.

Sweet Shirley Mae, the Spinaway runner-up who was scratched from last weekend’s Frizette at Belmont, is now on the fence, while My Happy Face, beaten a head in that race by divisional heavy Dreaming of Julia, could join the fray, although plans have not yet been made for her, trainer Rudy Rodriguez said Wednesday.

The connections of Obviously are ready to gamble $100,000 that their horse can finish fourth or better in the Breeders’ Cup Mile. The humans connected with Gordon Lord Byron are not so sure they want to put up that kind of stake.

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