LEXINGTON, Ky. – Breeders’ Cup Ltd. has changed its eligibility requirements for overseas horses in an effort to entice more foreign horses to run in the 14 races of its year-end event, Breeders’ Cup officials said Monday.

Midday won the Group 1, $445,000 Prix Vermeille at Longchamp on Sunday as her arch-rival Sariska refused to race for the second time in a row and was retired immediately after the race.

The dramatic events surrounding the highlight of Arc Trial Day saw Midday win at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe distance of 1 1/2 miles for the second time, but trainer Henry Cecil said afterwards that she would bypass the Arc and go directly to Churchill Downs for a defense of her title in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, which will be run at 1 3/8 miles this year.

Eldaafer outlasted the opposition and earned a ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Marathon when proving best as the favorite Saturday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Turfway Park Fall Championship in Florence, Ky.

Arctic Cosmos scored a surprise in the $770,000 St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster on Saturday as Rewilding, banged down to even-money favoritism, trudged home a well beaten seventh, 6 1/2 lengths behind the 12-1 winner.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The board of directors of the Breeders' Cup approved a resolution on Friday that will ban any trainer from the 14 races of its year-end event if the trainer has been found to be in violation of any rule regarding the use or possession of any Class 1 drug in the preceding 12 months, the organization announced on Friday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – With the Breeders’ Cup World Championships returning to dirt for the first time in three years – albeit at Churchill Downs – the significance of the Belmont fall meet is once again heightened.

Even with the elimination of six stakes and the purse reduction of 10 others at the meet, Belmont, which opens its 37-day fall season Saturday, will offer the majority of the most important dirt races in the country on the road to the Breeders’ Cup, to be held Nov. 5-6 in Louisville.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Lookin At Lucky on Wednesday at Del Mar had his first work since winning the Haskell Invitational five weeks earlier.
He went an easy half-mile in 49.40 seconds.

“He went around easy,” said his trainer, Bob Baffert. “I was going to work him on Monday, but I decided to give him a couple more days of galloping. He’s going to Hollywood Park next, and he’ll work there. I’m just trying to get him right again. I can’t think of any races yet.”

MIAMI – David Fawkes, his goose-neck trailer, and its valuable cargo all arrived back at Calder Racecourse safe and sound Monday morning after another long but successful journey to New York.

LOUISVILLE – The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved a rule that will allow regulators to draw samples from virtually any horse, at any time, to test for blood-doping drugs or powerful painkillers like neurotoxins.

William Hill rates defending champ Zenyatta and Preakness and Haskell winner Lookin At Lucky as 4-1 co-favorites for the Breeders’ Cup Classic as the British bookmakers opened for Cup business on Tuesday. Hill offers Whitney winner Blame at 6-1, with Whitney runner-up Quality Road at 8-1, followed by Travers one-two Afleet Express and Fly Down both at 12-1 along with Rachel Alexandra.