LEXINGTON, Ky. - By winning the Grade 1 Darley Alcibiades on Friday's opening-day card at Keneland, Stephanie’s Kitten earned an automatic berth into the BC Juvenile Fillies, but owner Ken Ramsey and trainer Wayne Catalano said they are more likely to keep the filly on a familiar surface and run her instead in the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf on the same Nov. 4 card.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. - Gio Ponti, whose rallying triumph in the Shadwell Turf Mile on Saturday at Keeneland was a high point of an incredibly eventful opening FallStars weekend here, returned Sunday evening to Belmont Park in New York, where he will begin preparations later this week for his final career start in the Nov. 5 BC Mile at Churchill Downs.

Owner Shane Ryan of Castleton Lyons and trainer Christophe Clement took part in an emotional celebration as Gio Ponti returned to the winner’s circle afterward, fully aware of the import of the moment.

STICKNEY, Ill. – Watching three horses – Headache, Where’s Sterling, and Cease – with no Grade 1 credentials slog through the Hawthorne Race Course homestretch in Saturday’s Hawthorne Gold Cup hardly put one in a Breeders’ Cup state of mind. But despite appearances, the Gold Cup, it turns out, could produce several Breeders’ Cup starters.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The fields for Woodbine’s three Grade 1 turf stakes on Sunday remained in flux as of Monday morning with a total of 17 candidates for the $1.5 million Canadian International, 14 for the $1 million E.P. Taylor, and 16 for the $500,000 Nearctic.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Miss Match, the winner of the Grade 1 Santa Margarita Invitational in March, is likely to make her next start in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 4, trainer Neil Drysdale said over the weekend.

A 6-year-old Argentine-bred mare, Miss Match has won 6 of 24 starts and $621,614. She finished fourth against males in the Grade 1 Goodwood Stakes at Santa Anita on Oct. 1, her most recent start.

Drysdale is hoping that Miss Match will thrive on the Churchill Downs main track in the Ladies' Classic, run over 1 1/8 miles.

The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner, Danedream, will not travel to the United States for Breeders’ Cup start, her connections have decided.

“We are not sure if she is going to race this year any more, but if she is going to race, she is going to Japan,” Gisela Schiergen, wife of trainer Peter Schiergen and an active participant in Schiergen’s racing operation, said Monday.

Northern Passion, a Canadian-bred who is owned by Oxley, breezed five furlongs in a bullet 59.60 seconds with Luis Contreras in the irons here at Woodbine Sunday morning.

“She was spectacular,” said Casse. “I think she’s a really good horse. The more I do with her, the better I think she is.”

While she has earned a guaranteed berth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf by virtue of her victory here in the Grade 3 Natalma, Northern Passion also is under consideration for the Juvenile Fillies on the main track at Churchill Downs.

Trainer Mark Casse finished second, fourth, and seventh with his three Natalma starters for owner/breeder John Oxley.

But they were back in the groove when Oxley’s horses Prospective and Lockout ran one-two and WinStar Farm’-owned Bluedacious completed a sweep for the barn in Sunday’s Grade 3, $201,200 Grey Stakes for 2-year-olds.

Prospective was doubling up while making his third start in the Grey, having finished second in his debut over six furlongs of turf and then winning a first-level allowance at seven furlongs on Polytrack.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The confidence that trainer Graham Motion had in Aruna being able to handle a switch to Polytrack proved well-founded on Sunday at Keeneland, as Aruna came charging down the center of the course to win the Grade 1, $500,000 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes.