LEXINGTON, Ky. – Getting a savvy ride from Javier Castellano, Bridgetown wore down front-running Great Mills to post a length victory as an odds-on favorite Saturday in the 16th running of the Grade 3, $150,000 Woodford Stakes at Keeneland.

Calmly reserved just behind a fast clip while saving ground, Bridgetown angled out for the stretch drive of the 5 1/2-furlong turf race before gradually getting the better of Great Mills. It was another half-length back to Chamberlain Bridge in the field of six older horses.

Mucho Macho Man may be out of sight, but he put in a workout Saturday morning at Saratoga that should put him back in the minds of handicapper’s looking ahead to the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Mucho Macho Man, working in company with 4-year-old Skinny Peter, went five furlongs in 57.79 seconds over the Oklahoma training track, according to track clockers. Known as a deep surface, the Oklahoma training track rarely yields such fast workout times.

Trainer Tom Amoss reiterated Saturday that Sum of the Parts is “only a maybe” to run back Nov. 3 at Santa Anita in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. Sum of the Parts earned an expenses-paid berth in the race by virtue of his gate-to-wire triumph here Friday in the Grade 3 Phoenix Stakes, a race for which he earned a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 97.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The connections of 10 3-year-old turf fillies have accepted invitations to participate next weekend in the sixth and final Grade 1 race of the Keeneland fall meet, the $400,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup on Saturday, Oct. 13.

Division leaders Stephanie’s Kitten, Lady of Shamrock, and Samitar are among those expected to be entered in the 29th running of the QEII, a 1 1/8-mile turf fixture that invariably comes up an outstanding race.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bares Tripper won her debut on a Polytrack surface at Del Mar. She won a stakes on a dirt track at Fairplex Park. A start on turf in Monday’s $100,000 Surfer Girl Stakes at Santa Anita is not a major issue for trainer Peter Miller.

“She should handle the turf,” Miller said. “I don’t see why she won’t handle it after she handled the synthetic. Some horses just run on anything, and I think she’s one of those.”

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Commander will be a heavy favorite to win his sixth stakes race in a row in the $100,000 B.C. Premiers at Hastings on Monday. The main threat to ending his streak appears to be Jebrica, who won the race for 3-year-olds and up last year.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The Grade 3, $100,000 Ballerina at Hastings on Monday features a classic matchup between the top older female at Emerald Downs, Class Included, and the dominant 3-year-old filly at Hastings, Evelyn’s Dancer.

The 1 1/8-mile race for fillies and mares drew seven horses and goes as race 4 on a nine-race card that begins at 1:50 p.m. Pacific. Under the scale weight conditions of the race, older fillies and mares will carry 123 pounds and 3-year-olds 120.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Led by Watsdachances, trainer Chad Brown will take three shots at Monday’s Grade  3, $150,000 Miss Grillo Stakes at Belmont Park, hoping to get back to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, the inaugural running of which Brown won four years ago with Maram.

Brown also will send out maidens Wave Theory and Atlantic Dream in the Miss Grillo, a 1 1/16-mile grass race that drew a field of 12.

Alpha and Questing, both beaten at Parx in $1 million races in their last starts, returned to the work tab Friday morning, each breezing four furlongs over the synthetic surface at the Greentree training center in Saratoga.

Alpha, the Travers co-winner who finished sixth in the Pennsylvania Derby, went four furlongs in 48.40 seconds, according to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. Alpha is pointing to the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 3 at Santa Anita.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Graham Motion will be a player in all three turf stakes scheduled to be run on Monday’s Columbus Day card at Belmont Park.

In the Grade 3, $150,000 Pilgrim Stakes, for 2-year-old males, Motion will send out the Irish-bred Cerro. In the Grade 3, $150,000 Miss Grillo, for 2-year-old fillies, Motion sends out Three Hearts. Finally, in the $150,000 Pebbles Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, Motion has Ski Holiday.