Turbulent Descent, who finished a troubled fifth in Friday’s Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, will be pointed for the $250,000 La Brea Stakes for 3-year-old fillies over seven furlongs at Santa Anita in late December, trainer Mike Puype said.

The date for the Grade 1 La Brea has not been finalized. Puype said that Turbulent Descent would start in the La Brea “without a question.”

Weemissfrankie, third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Churchill Downs on Friday, may start again this year, and has the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill on May 4 as a long-term goal, trainer Peter Eurton said on Sunday.

Weemissfrankie was beaten nine lengths by My Miss Aurelia in the Juvenile Fillies, the first loss of her four-race career. Earlier this year, Weemissfrankie won a maiden race and two Grade 1 races – the Del Mar Debutante and Oak Leaf Stakes at Santa Anita

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Breeders’ Cup Ltd. announced Sunday that John Velazquez has been named the winner of the Bill Shoemaker Award for being the most outstanding jockey at the 2011 Breeders’ Cup. This is the second time that Velazquez, 39, has won the Shoemaker Award, having previously won it at Lone Star Park in 2004.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-  Big Drama, winner of the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Sprint and reigning Eclipse Award champion sprinter, has been retired , trainer David Fawkes said Sunday morning at Churchill Downs.

Big Drama ended his career on Saturday finishing seventh in defense of his title in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.  Big Drama, a 5-year-old homebred son of Montbrook owned by Harold Queen, led throughout to capture last year’s  Sprint by 1 1/2 lengths under jockey Eibar Coa.

There is something to be said for strength in numbers.

Trainer Aidan O’Brien sent 11 horses -- eight more than any other European horseman –  to Churchill Downs for the 2011 Breeders’ Cup and was the only overseas trainer to get his picture taken this weekend.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In a race that might prove as tight as the finish to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, a race Hansen won by a head over Union Rags, the top two finishers could soon be locked in another battle, with this one decided by votes to determine North America’s top 2-year-old colt of 2011

Both Hansen, who finished the year undefeated in three starts by winning the Juvenile, and Union Rags, who lost little in defeat with a wide trip in running second in the race, have the credentials to win an Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old male.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Wrote, the winner of the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Churchill Downs on Saturday, was among the 11 horses trained by Aidan O’Brien to van out Saturday night for O’Hare Airport in Chicago, from where they were flown back to O’Brien’s Ballydoyle base in Ireland.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The blankets of flowers that were draped over the withers of Drosselmeyer and Royal Delta following their Breeders’ Cup wins hung over a sawhorse outside trainer Bill Mott’s barn on Sunday morning at Churchill Downs, testament to him having won the biggest races of the weekend here, the Ladies’ Classic on Friday, and the Classic on Saturday.

“I’m content, I suppose. For the moment,” Mott said Sunday morning. “It doesn’t last long in this business.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Regally Ready might well follow the familiar work pattern that trainer Steve Asmussen uses for all his horses in the aftermath of the 4-year-old gelding’s convincing victory Saturday in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Churchill Downs.

Asmussen typically breezes his horses nine days after their races, meaning a workout at Churchill could come as soon as Monday, Nov. 14, for Regally Ready.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - There will be a healthy debate for championship honors in many divisions, especially among the high-profile 3-year-old males which may have welcomed a new contender for the title Saturday at Churchill Downs.

Caleb’s Posse won his fourth graded stakes of the year when he blew past virtually the entire field in the stretch to win the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile by four lengths. He ran a mile in 1:34.59 and earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 111. Caleb’s Posse has 5 wins, a second and a third from 10 starts this year.