The pecking order has changed, but Godolphin Racing's lineup remains the same for Saturday's $2 million Breeders' Cup Mile.

Two months ago, Godolphin racing manager Simon Crisford would have told you that Librettist was Godolphin's best hope and Echo of Light was the second stringer. But after Librettist's poor run in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot and Echo of Light's solid victory in the Groupo2 Daniel Wildenstein in his last out, the roles have been reversed.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Happy Ticket and Balletto were stuck in the outside two post positions and race favorite Fleet Indian drew right in the middle of a full field entered for Saturday's Breeders' Cup Distaff at Churchill Downs.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin was hoping Henny Hughes would draw outside the speed in Saturday's $2,130,000 Breeders' Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs. Instead, McLaughlin will have to settle for having the best horse and likely odds-on favorite among a full field of 14 drawn Wednesday for the six-furlong Sprint.

Henny Hughes will break from post 4, inside likely pacesetters Bordonaro and Attila's Storm. Henny Hughes is the 5-2 favorite in Daily Racing Form national handicapper Mike Watchmaker's morning line.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Todd Pletcher has the numbers. More than 1,000 starters in 2006 have won close to $24 million in purses. He already has set a single-season record for stakes wins by a trainer. Wins of all sorts have come at a 26-percent clip.

Albertrani was an assistant with Bill Mott when Mott had his best years, in the mid-1990's, including the first of two Horse of the Year campaigns with Cigar. After Albertrani took a position with Sheikh Mohammed's mighty Godolphin stable, where he was the top assistant to trainer Saeed bin Suroor, Godolphin won races such as the Dubai World Cup with Dubai Millennium and the Breeders' Cup Turf with Daylami and Fantastic Light.

ELMONT, N.Y. - It has been two years since Balletto has won a race, but it has not been that long since she ran a winning race.

That is why many people are giving Balletto a big chance to end her career on a winning note in Saturday's $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff.

"Maybe my biggest concern would be Balletto," Shug McGaughey, trainer of top Distaff contender Pine Island said this week. "All her races have been pretty good."

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Breeders' Cup will give the winners of 24 televised stakes races next year automatic berths into seven of its eight season-ending championship races, the association announced on Tuesday.

ELMONT, N .Y. – Bernardini, the 3-year-old sensation who figures to go postward a solid favorite in the Breeders' Cup Classic, had his final tuneup for the race at Belmont Park on Tuesday, working five furlongs in 1:03.32 under regular exercise rider Simon Harris.

Bernardini was one of three Breeders' Cup candidates to work over a fast main track after the break on Tuesday, along with his stablemate Balletto and War Front. Balletto worked an easy five furlongs in 1:02.24 for the Distaff, while War Front drilled a fast half-mile in 45.02 for the Sprint.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It used to be that trainers could not wait to get to Churchill Downs for their final preparations for events like the Kentucky Derby and the Breeders' Cup, but the modus operandi has changed this year. Keeneland's Polytrack became a popular option, and several trainers, most notably Todd Pletcher in New York, have chosen to keep their most of their runners at their home tracks until the last possible moment.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Grade 1 winner with earnings of more than $1.7 million, a mare that has given her human connections four full seasons of thrills in an era when one-year-and-done is the name of the game. Who wouldn't want to be around a horse like Film Maker?