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A good runner-up finish by Joyful Victory in the Grade 1 Zenyatta Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita was not quite good enough. Trainer Larry Jones, after consulting with owner Rick Porter, said Tuesday that Joyful Victory would not run in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic and instead return to Kentucky.

“We took our best shot, and the water is just going to get deeper,” Jones said. “Royal Delta is coming in, Love and Pride and Questing are the real deal, My Miss Aurelia … it’s a deep pool to be swimming in.”

The Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint will be moved to the Saturday Breeders’ Cup card, and the Marathon is back as part of the Friday card, the Breeders’ Cup said on Tuesday when it announced the schedule for the 15 races of the 29th Breeders’ Cup Nov. 2-3 at Santa Anita.

The Saturday card, anchored by the Classic as the last of nine BC races, will also include the Juvenile Turf, Sprint, Turf Sprint, Dirt Mile, Turf, Juvenile, and Mile.

ARCADIA, Calif. –The drive from Del Mar to Hollywood Park covers about 110 miles and takes less than two hours – if a person leaves early and beats the notorious Los Angeles area traffic.

Jockey Brice Blanc knew the road well in August. He made the drive three times to work the turf miler Mr. Commons for trainer John Shirreffs.

Blanc would rise early, travel to Hollywood Park and return to Del Mar in time for afternoon races. All of that for about a minute’s worth of work.

“It was a good minute,” Blanc said last weekend.

Animal Kingdom, the 2011 Kentucky Derby winner, will make his first start since February in the Breeders’ Cup Mile, his connections announced Tuesday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Trainer Charlie Lopresti said Tuesday that he will enter Wise Dan with the intent of running the star gelding Saturday in the richest race of the Keeneland fall meet, the Grade 1, $750,000 Shadwell Turf Mile.

Lopresti said the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile on Nov. 3 at Santa Anita remains the primary goal for Wise Dan, whose last six races have resulted in five victories, several of them jaw-droppers.

At Saratoga, Breeders’ Cup Classic candidate Mucho Macho Man worked three furlongs in 34.72 seconds over a muddy Oklahoma training track Monday morning, his first breeze since finishing second behind To Honor and Serve in the Woodward on Sept. 1.

Though the track was wet, trainer Kathy Ritvo though it safe enough to begin breezing toward the Breeders’ Cup.

“He had a good time, he was feeling good,” Ritvo said. “We just let him do it on his own. He worked great and came back super.”

Though he earned an automatic berth in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint by virtue of his victory in Saturday’s Grade 1 Vosburgh, The Lumber Guy is being considered for both the $1.5 million Sprint and the $1 million Dirt Mile, trainer Mike Hushion said.

Hushion said he and owner Barry Schwartz would size up the competition for both races before making a definitive decision.

Flower Bowl 1-2 finishers Nahrain and Zagora appear headed to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf.

Nahrain, second in the Filly and Mare Turf last year, earned her spot in the race by winning Saturday’s Grade 1 Flower Bowl by a half-length over Zagora.

Roger Varian, trainer of Nahrain, returned to Newmarket on Saturday night, but no decision yet has been made on whether the filly will stay in the United States to train up to the Breeders’ Cup or return to Newmarket.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Shug McGaughey will ship Joe Hirsch Turf Classic winner Point of Entry to Southern California with confidence, knowing that his horse will get a course firmer at Santa Anita than the one he ran on Saturday at Belmont Park.

Point of Entry ran his winning streak to five straight – and three consecutive Grade 1’s – with his 1 3/4-length victory in the Joe Hirsch, run on yielding turf that his connections didn’t think he particularly liked.