While trainer Todd Pletcher was disappointed in Super Saver’s performance in Saturday's Travers at Saratoga, he was naturally thrilled with Discreetly Mine’s 1 1/4-length-victory in the Grade 1 King’s Bishop. Pletcher didn’t want Discreetly Mine to have to go gate to wire, but with the track so favoring speed - all races to that point had been run in front-running fashion - he felt he had no choice.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Like the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano, so too has Awesome Gem returned to Del Mar. Now age 7, Awesome Gem has become something of a fixture here. On Saturday, he will run in the Grade 1, $1 million Pacific Classic for the fourth straight year.

He finished second in the race in 2007, and was seventh in both 2008 and 2009, but he comes into this year’s race following a victory in the Hollywood Gold Cup, a performance that ranks as the highlight of his lengthy career.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – The last of the ship-ins for Arlington Million Day on Saturday were to head home Monday from Chicago, including Debussy, winner of the 28th Arlington Million on Saturday for trainer John Gosden.

Debussy and his stablemate Tazeez, third in Saturday’s Million, were to leave Chicago Monday night and arrive back in England on Tuesday. Debussy especially appeared to come out of the race in good order, Gosden said Monday from England, and in all likelihood will return to the U.S. for a try in the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

Atta Boy Roy won what might have been his final prep for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint in hand on Saturday night, when he cruised by 5 1/2 lengths in the $200,000 Remington Park Sprint Cup.

The six-furlong race shared a card with the $150,000 Governor’s Cup won by Shadowbdancing.

Japan is planning a concerted assault on many of the world’s best races this fall. The Japanese Racing Association confirmed on Thursday that the country’s best dirt horse, Espoir City, has his sights set on the Breeders’ Cup Classic, while Red Desire, the winner of Round 2 of the Maktoum Challenge against males in Dubai, is headed to the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

Tickets for both days of this year's Breeders' Cup, to be run at Churchill Downs on Friday and Saturday Nov 5 and 6, are scheduled to go on sale at noon Eastern on June 5. Additional ticketing information, including a pre-sale and a VIP sweepstakes, can be found at . Tickets can also be purchased through a toll-free number: 1-877-TIX-4CUP.

Portions of both Breeders' Cup cards this fall at Churchill Downs will be run under the lights, a development that had been anticipated since the new, permanent lights were installed at the track last fall.

In a press release on Wednesday, the Breeders' Cup announced that the $2 million Ladies' Classic, the premier event of the Friday, Nov. 5, card, will be run under the lights, with a scheduled post time of 7:30 p.m. Eastern, 50 minutes after sundown.

ARCADIA, Calif. - It's all over but the debating.

Zenyatta's victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday at Santa Anita's Oak Tree meeting has reignited the debate over the 2009 Horse of the Year between her and Rachel Alexandra, who had an equally brilliant year.

Zenyatta, 5, won all five of her starts this year, once against older males, and showed up for the sport's year-end championship event, in which she beat a star-studded field to complete a perfect career.

ELMONT, N.Y. - It was another brutal Breeders' Cup for New York-based horses. One year after winning just 1 of 14 Breeders' Cup races - Maram in the Juvenile Fillies Turf - the New York-based contingent drew a blank in last week's Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita. Tapitsfly, this year's Juvenile Fillies Turf winner, did race three times in New York, but she spent most of the year in Kentucky with trainer Dale Romans.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Even John Shirreffs, so reticent to join celebrations that he purposely avoids getting into the winner's circle after his horses win, got caught up in the moment after Zenyatta rallied to win the on Saturday at Santa Anita's Oak Tree meeting, culminating a perfect 14-for-14 career.

Shirreffs, as is his custom, watched the race without an entourage. He wandered up the stretch, about a sixteenth of a mile from the finish, and stood in a narrow pathway between the outer rail of the racetrack and the grandstand apron.