Obviously, the winner of Saturday’s Grade 2 Arroyo Seco Mile, will be nominated to the Breeders’ Cup program at a cost of $100,000 with a start in the BC Mile on Nov. 3 as a goal.

Obviously was not nominated to the Breeders’ Cup during the summer at a time when he could have been made eligible for $50,000. Instead, owners Anthony Fanticola and Joseph Scrardino opted to wait to make the investment.

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ARCADIA, Calif. – Amazombie will undergo precautionary health tests in coming days after finishing fourth as a heavy favorite in Saturday’s $250,000 Santa Anita Sprint Championship.

Co-owner and trainer Bill Spawr said that Amazombie remains on course for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint here on Nov. 3, a race he won at Churchill Downs last year.

“He’s a little tired,” Spawr said. “He didn’t eat much. He didn’t put in that run that he usually does.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Trainer Todd Pletcher capped off another sensational first weekend of October when In Lingerie, the lukewarm favorite in a field of 10 fillies and mares, stormed to a clear-cut victory Sunday in the Grade 1, $500,000 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes at Keeneland.

ARCADIA, Calif.- Rumor is not the most durable filly, but she has proven to be a dangerous filly to dismiss.

Sunday, in the $98,000 L.A. Woman Stakes at Santa Anita, Rumor ended a three-race losing streak with a minor upset in the stakes for fillies and mares over 6 1/2 furlongs. The win left trainer Richard Mandella considering the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint here on Nov. 3 for Rumor, the winner of two stakes.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. – Balance the Books passed all 11 of his fellow 2-year-olds on the way to a popular victory Sunday as the odds-on favorite in an otherwise trouble-filled 22nd running of the Grade 3, $150,000 Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland.

Balance the Books, with Julien Leparoux aboard, rallied farthest outside to avoid much of the stretch turmoil that occurred when the horse he narrowly defeated, 38-1 shot Really Sharp, raced erratically down the stretch, bothering several rivals.

“I saw all the trouble happening, but it did not affect me much,” said Leparoux.

ARCADIA, Calif.  - Acclamation, the champion older male of 2011, will miss the Breeders’ Cup Turf next month because of a recurring leg injury, trainer Don Warren told Santa Anita publicity on Sunday.

A nine-time stakes winner who has won his last seven starts in graded stakes, Acclamation is expected to stay in training for a 2013 campaign as a 7-year-old, Warren said.

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[bc_video_id:265001:]Gordon Lord Byron continued his rise through the European sprint division with a career-best performance in Sunday’s Group 1 Prix de la Foret over seven furlongs at Longchamp Racecourse.

Ridden by William Buick, Gordon Lord Byron stalked the pace for the first half-mile, took the lead with a furlong remaining and won by 1 1/2 lengths over 10-1 Pentinent. The 24-1 shot Kendam finished third in the field of 11. Mashoora, the 5-2 favorite, finished fifth.

[bc_video_id:264999:]Ridasiyna rebounded from her first career defeat at Deauville, France, in August to score a 12-1 upset in Sunday’s Group 1 Prix de l’Opera at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris.

Owned by The Aga Khan, Ridasiyna, 3, won her first three races from May to July, but was fifth in the Group 2 Prix de la Nonette in August. In the Prix de l’Opera over 1 1/4 miles, Ridasiyna closed from the back of the field of 13 fillies and mares to win by 3 1/2 lengths over Izzi Top, the 9-5 favorite. Giofra (9-2) finished third, a short neck behind Izzi Top.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Wise Dan came out of his latest eye-catching victory in good shape, trainer Charlie Lopresti said Sunday morning, less than 24 hours after the star 5-year-old gelding captured the Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile by 2 1/4 lengths over the Keeneland turf.

“I knew I did the right thing by the way he ran,” said Lopresti, who did not confirm Wise Dan for the Shadwell until the morning before entries were taken Wednesday. Lopresti was hesitant to run Wise Dan because of the timing of the Shadwell, which came just 20 days after the gelding won the Woodbine Mile.

The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe was going just the way the connections of Japanese star Orfevre must have dreamt. Moving fluidly from the back of an 18-horse field, Orfevre swept past rival after toiling rival, taking a clear lead into the final furlong of Sunday’s race at Longchamp. The race was his – and then it wasn’t. Solemia, a 40-1 shot Orfevre already had blown by in midstretch, kept staying on, staying on, and the unheralded 4-year-old filly tagged Orfevre in the shadow of the finish to score a shocking neck win.