INGLEWOOD, Calif. – It took two stablemates to work with Zenyatta at Hollywood Park on Friday and achieve the objectives that trainer John Shirreffs intended for the undefeated mare’s second-to-last workout before the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 6.

Zenyatta worked with Sarbonne and El Vino, two horses owned, like Zenyatta, by Jerry and Ann Moss. They served as a tag-team of sorts during the seven-furlong workout. Ridden by Mike Smith, Zenyatta was timed in 1:27.20, and she was the only horse to work that distance on Friday.

A Little Warm, winner of the Grade 2 Jim Dandy at Saratoga in July, suffered condylar fractures to both front legs on Thursday and will most likely be retired from racing, his connections said Friday. A Little Warm was being pointed to the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The connections of Paddy O’Prado announced early Friday that the colt most likely will run in the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs, although he also will be pre-entered in the BC Turf.

Jerry Crawford, who manages the Donegal Racing partnership that owns Paddy O’Prado, said the syndicate decided at a meeting Thursday night to try for the $5 million Classic, which also is expected to get Zenyatta, Blame, Quality Road, Lookin At Lucky, and other top horses.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The Usual Q.T. will start in the Breeders’ Cup Mile on Nov. 6, trainer Jim Cassidy said on Thursday.

After considering a start in the California Cup Mile at Hollywood Park on Oct. 30, Cassidy and Don Van, who leads the partnership that owns the 4-year-old, have opted for the BC Mile.

“I told him, ‘Don, the horse is doing great,’ ” Cassidy said, noting that The Usual Q.T. worked six furlongs in 1:12.80 on Wednesday. “It was a really nice work. He’s back to his old self.”

R Boy Bill has never been beaten on turf and if he keeps his streak alive Saturday night in the $75,000 El Joven for 2-year-olds at Retama Park near San Antonio, he could see action in the Breeders’ Cup.

The El Joven and the $75,000 La Senorita for 2-year-old fillies, close out the Retama meet. Both races are run over a mile on turf, with the La Senorita drawing stakes winners Jazzy Jessy, Tiger Girl, and Little Widow Maker.

Multiple 2009 Eclipse Award winner Gio Ponti will be cross-entered in both the Breeders’ Cup Classic and the Breeders’ Cup Mile when Breeders’ Cup pre-entries are taken on Monday, according to a manager at the Castleton-Lyons Farm of Gio Ponti’s owner, Shane Ryan.

“At the moment our intention is to enter in both the races,” Stuart Fitzgibbon, commercial manager at Castleton-Lyons, said Thursday afternoon.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Wyomia, who is coming off an impressive win in the Grade 3 Mazarine over 1 1/16 miles on the main track here Oct. 9, is headed for the Breeders’ Cup at Churchill Downs. But while trainer Danny Vella originally had considered pointing Wyomia for the Juvenile Fillies at 1 1/16 miles on the dirt, he now plans to pre-enter her in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

Triple Group 1 winner Rip Van Winkle has been retired to Coolmore Stud after what trainer Aiden O'Brien told Racing Post is "a very slight setback."

O'Brien apparently did not detail the colt's issue but said that "it would have meant forcing him to get him to Churchill Downs" for the Breeders' Cup, where Rip Van Winkle was nominated for both the Breeders' Cup Mile and the Classic.

A 4-year-old by Galileo, he will now join his sire at Coolmore.

Kathmanblu captured the final Win and You’re In race for the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf, the $150,000 Jessamine Stakes on Oct. 14 at Keeneland, with an eye-catching rally under Julien Leparoux.

Rustler Hustler, coming off a turf breeze last week at Aqueduct in which he outworked Grade 1 winner Court Vision, will not be supplemented to the Nov. 6 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf and will pointed toward other races, trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. said Wednesday.

Owned for his first four races by Blazing Meadows Farm and Mark Stanley, Rustler Hustler was purchased privately by owner Paul Pompa after the colt won the Continental Mile at Monmouth Park on Aug. 14. Dutrow has trained him since the purchase was finalized, although the horse has not raced under him.