ELMONT, N.Y. – To say trainer Wesley Ward is looking forward to running Judy the Beauty in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Gallant Bloom Handicap at Belmont Park would be an understatement.

“I’m so excited to run her my toes are wiggling,” Ward said Wednesday by phone from Keeneland.

Judy the Beauty, beaten a nose by Emma’s Encore in the Grade 1 Prioress at Saratoga on Aug. 4, was one of 10 fillies and mares entered for the Gallant Bloom, a Win and You’re In race for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 2.

MIAMI – Trainer Rodolfo Garcia could have opted to keep his Grade 2-placed Salamera home for what would have been a much-anticipated matchup with the undefeated and untested Rose to Gold in last Saturday’s Brave Raj Stakes. Instead, Garcia decided to skip that spot to ship Salamera to Santa Anita for the Grade 1 Chandelier a week from Saturday.

Redeemed, a multiple graded stakes winner this year who was being pointed to the Breeders’ Cup Marathon, and Boys At Tosconova, who won the Grade 1 Hopeful in 2010, have been retired, their owner announced on Wednesday.

Redeemed, a 4-year-old Virginia-bred son of Include, has a torn tendon in his right foreleg, owner Samantha Siegel said. Meanwhile, Boys At Tosconova simply was not training like he needed to be competitive, Siegel said.

Siegel indicated she would attempt to find homes to stand both as stallions.

Alternation on Tuesday morning put in a significant work for the Grade 2, $500,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup, the Oct. 6 race in Chicago that will serve as his stepping-stone to the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Nov. 3.

Alternation worked at his Remington Park base in Oklahoma City at 6 a.m., trainer Donnie Von Hemel said. The horse went five furlongs in 1:01.71 under regular rider Luis Quinonez and galloped out six furlongs in 1:13.72.

ELMONT, N.Y. – With hopes of making it next to the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic, the undefeated champion Awesome Feather returns to the races off an eight-month layoff Thursday in the $85,000 Nasty Storm Stakes at Belmont Park.

Awesome Feather, who was the champion 2-year-old filly of 2010, will be making just her fourth start since winning the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies in the Nasty Storm, a one-mile race that goes as the third on Belmont’s nine-race card.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Winning the Woodbine Mile is far from a routine task, as evidenced by the fact that the Grade 1, $1 million turf race has established itself as a key prep for the Breeders’ Cup Mile. But Wise Dan made it look fairly easy here this past Sunday, cruising to a 3 1/4-length win to give trainer Charlie Lopresti his second straight victory in the Woodbine Mile following the success last year of Turallure.

For a little more than a month, the connections of Alternation have been debating the best route to get the horse to the Breeders’ Cup Classic, and on Monday trainer Donnie Von Hemel said the Grade 2, $500,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup on Oct. 6 will be Alternation’s next race. The horse, who is based at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, also had been under consideration for the $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park on Sept. 29.

The Japanese horse Orfevre punched his ticket to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, while the French horse Moonlight Cloud booked trainer Freddie Head passage back to the Breeders’ Cup Mile during the course of a major day’s racing Sunday at Longchamp.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Heavily-favored Wise Dan won the $1 million Woodbine Mile in dominating fashion on Sunday, paying his way to the Breeders’ Cup in the process. 

With John Velazquez aboard, Wise Dan had a lovely stalking trip behind front-runners Worthadd and Artic Fern in the Grade 1 stakes. He split them late on the turn, and then drew away to prevail by 3 ¼ lengths, in 1:34.07 over the firm ground. 

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The aptly named Kentucky shipper I’m Boundtoscore led all the way to post an upset in the $251,000 Summer Stakes at Woodbine on Saturday, earning a fees-paid trip to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf in the Win and You’re In contest.