For now, the banning of Lasix for this year’s races restricted to 2-year-olds at the Breeders’ Cup will not deter trainer Todd Pletcher from running in the $2 million Juvenile at Santa Anita.

Pletcher, who has the strongest arsenal of 2-year-olds of any trainer in the country, said he will let upcoming performances and his owners dictate whether to run in the Juvenile, the winner of which has been crowned 2-year-old champion 16 of the last 20 years.

ARCADIA, Calif. – California, here they come, right back where the Breeders’ Cup started.

For the third time in the last five years, fourth time in the last 10 years, and ninth time since its inaugural running in 1984, the Breeders’ Cup returns this fall to Southern California. With the opening of Santa Anita’s autumn meeting on Friday, and a plethora of important stakes races at Santa Anita and Belmont Park this weekend, the countdown has commenced to the 15-race Breeders’ Cup on Nov. 2-3 at Santa Anita.

So Many Ways, the undefeated winner of the Grade 1 Spinaway at Saratoga, will not run in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita, her owner, Maggi Moss, announced in a press release issued Wednesday.

So Many Ways is trained by Tony Dutrow and is to be turned out under his care in Maryland before gearing up for a 3-year-old campaign that could be launched at Gulfstream Park.

Friday’s Eddie D Stakes, honoring Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Delahoussaye, will have a full field, but there is one notable absence.

California Flag, winner of the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, is not ready for a start this week and will be trained up to the BC Turf Sprint on Nov. 3, trainer Brian Koriner said.

An 8-year-old, California Flag has made one start this year, winning the San Simeon Handicap on the hillside turf course in April.

The Eddie D field includes Shrug, winner of the Green Flash Handicap at Del Mar last month.

Richard’s Kid, who finished third in the $1 million Pacific Classic on Aug. 26, will start in Saturday’s $250,000 Awesome Again Stakes, a key prep for the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 3.

Richard’s Kid will be racing for trainer Doug O’Neill, who will return to training Friday after serving a 40-day suspension for a 2010 medication violation. The suspension ends Thursday, allowing O’Neill to resume normal activity Friday.

In August, Richard’s Kid was sold to a partnership led by Triple B Farms. The Pacific Classic was his first start for the new partners.

ELMONT, N.Y. – When Adam Wachtel and Nils Brous first met seven years ago, they were trying to buy a clothing company. While that deal didn’t materialize, the two have become a pretty good fit in the world of Thoroughbred racing.

Wachtel, 50, has had a lifelong involvement in racing, having been introduced to it by his father, Edward, a longtime breeder and owner in New York. Brous, 48, has long been a fan of the game and expected to one day get involved in ownership.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Halo Dolly and City to City were separated by 1 1/4 lengths when they finished first and second in the Grade 2 Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Del Mar earlier this month. This Saturday, they will be a nation apart.

With both fillies in outstanding form, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer is starting Halo Dolly and City to City in major stakes at Belmont Park and Santa Anita.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Todd Pletcher spent the majority of Monday morning at Belmont Park sending out platoons of juveniles for workouts for upcoming stakes events.

Shanghai Bobby, the leader of the East Coast’s 2-year-old division, worked four furlongs in 49.50 seconds in company with the maiden winner Tizracer. They went together through a quarter in 25.48 and got their final quarter in 24.02 while galloping out five furlongs in 1:02.01.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Bill Mott wouldn’t declare Woodward winner To Honor and Serve as a definite starter for Saturday’s Grade 2, $400,000 Kelso Handicap, but the horse gave every indication he would like to run in the one-turn mile race when he worked a strong half-mile in 47.15, the fastest half-mile move of the morning.

To Honor and Serve, with exercise rider Rodolphe Brisset up, went his first quarter in 24.18 and his final quarter in 22.97.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Point of Entry tuned up for Saturday’s Grade 1, $600,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, with a sharp half-mile workout in 50.22 seconds Sunday morning over a good Belmont inner turf course.

After going off slowly, Point of Entry zipped home a final quarter in 22.50 as a another horse not connected with his stable had broken off about a dozen lengths in front.