Turallure, suddenly a fringe contender for a divisional Eclipse Award after adding the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile to a 2011 victory resume that already included the Grade 2 Bernard Baruch, will not race again until the Nov. 5 Breeders’ Cup Mile at Churchill, trainer Charlie Lopresti said Wednesday.

“We’ll just take it easy with him for a bit, then get him ready at Keeneland for the Breeders’ Cup,” said Lopresti. “He really ran huge the other day.”

Shotgun Gulch has put herself under consideration for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint following her fast-closing, third-place finish in the Grade 2 Masters at Presque Isle Downs. She is now back home in Oklahoma following the Pennsylvania race run Sept 10 and has been getting a few days of freshening at the farm of her breeder, owner, and trainer, C.R. Trout.

“We’re looking at the Breeders’ Cup,” Trout said. “It would be the same kind of mares she’s run against other places.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – No local horses emerged from last Sunday’s Woodbine Mile program as legitimate contenders for the Breeders’ Cup.

But, Woodbine’s first potential Breeders’ Cup representative stepped up to the plate here last Saturday when Northern Passion captured the Natalma Stakes for trainer Mark Casse.

The Natalma, a one-mile turf race for 2-year-old fillies, not only offered Grade 3 status and a purse of $200,000 but was part of the Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In challenge series and earned Northern Passion a fees-paid berth in the Juvenile Fillies Turf.

Courageous Cat, sent off at even money for the Woodbine Mile, couldn’t withstand Turallure’s charge but held on to finish second in a wild finish.

“It looked like a pretty good race,” said trainer Bill Mott. “It might have been better if there was a little more pace in front of him. He wound up on the lead for a long time.”

Courageous Cat was on his way back to Saratoga on Monday, along with stablemate Al Khali, and the Breeders’ Cup Mile is still on his agenda.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario—Turallure mounted a powerful rally from out of traffic under a daring ride from Julien Leparoux to capture Sunday’s $1 million Woodbine Mile.

Turallure ($14.90) was angled wide nearing the eighth pole after saving ground most of the way, and he caught favored Courageous Cat in the final strides to win by a neck. Turallure covered the distance over firm ground in 1:34.92. 

ELMONT, N.Y. - Though they will take different paths to get there, the ultimate goal is to have Uncle Mo and Stay Thirsty end up in the same starting gate for the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs.

Those sentiments were expressed Sunday by owner Mike Repole and trainer Todd Pletcher after they watched both 3-year-olds put in workouts over Belmont Park’s main track on a gorgeous fall-like morning. Both horses worked by themselves.

King Leatherbury wants to play “Let’s Make a Deal.”

Leatherbury, 78, is the breeder, owner, and trainer of Ben’s Cat, a 5-year-old who earned an automatic berth in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs by winning the Grade 3, $350,000 Turf Monster Handicap at Parx Racing on Sept. 5.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Finale punched his ticket to the Nov. 5 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Churchill Downs with a workmanlike score Saturday at Woodbine in the $254,000 Summer Stakes, a one-mile BC Win and You’re In event.

Finale ($3.70) pressed a slow pace on the outside under John Velazquez and then duked it out with the front-running Excaper in the stretch en route to three-quarter-length triumph over that one. Daddy Nose Best rallied strongly to nail Maritimer on the wire for third in the eight-horse field.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Northern Passion ($14.70) got a dream run along the inside to capture Saturday’s Grade 3, $235,100 Natalma Stakes at Woodbine, under a fine ride from Luis Contreras.

POMONA, Calif. – California-bred and -based Acclamation will take his show on the road. Winner of three consecutive Grade 1’s and currently the top male in California, Acclamation may skip the fall meet at Santa Anita and run for a $1.5 million purse Oct. 16 at Woodbine in the Grade 1 Canadian International. In all likelihood, that would preclude running in the Breeders’ Cup.