ARCADIA, Calif. - Ain’t Easy tried to put her best foot forward on Friday at Santa Anita. She won in a romp in the Grade 2 Chandelier. Imagine what she could do with all her shoes properly affixed.

Ain’t Easy crossed the wire 4 3/4 lengths in front of the nearest of her six rivals in the $201,000 race for 2-year-old fillies, and returned with her left front shoe askew. Her trainer, Phil D’Amato, made sure to instruct his employees to get it pulled at the test barn, by which time some of her rivals might have caught up to her.

ARCADIA, Calif. - One Timer handled the transition to turf and his first start in California with a bold win in the $100,500 Speakeasy Stakes for 2-year-old sprinters at Santa Anita on Friday.

With the victory, One Timer earned a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint at Del Mar on Nov. 5.

Ridden by E.T. Baird, One Timer ($5.80) dueled with 9-5 favorite Forbidden Kingdom through the opening quarter-mile before taking the lead. One Timer led by 2 1/2 lengths in the stretch, enough of an advantage to hold off a late threat from 6-1 Time to Party.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Crazy Beautiful finally pushed past front-running Played Hard in the desperate last few yards to win an exciting first running of the $155,568 Seneca late Friday afternoon at Churchill Downs.

Ridden by Brian Hernandez Jr., Crazy Beautiful was relentless in winning her fifth stakes from 12 starts. Racing closer to the pace than she usually does from the opening steps of the 1 1/16-mile race, she gave closest chase Played Hard from the three-quarter pole and beyond, surging late to prevail by a neck.

ELMONT, N.Y. – My Sister Nat, who hasn’t reached the heights of her champion older sibling Sistercharlie, gets a chance to earn her way to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar next month when she heads a seven-horse field entered in Sunday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Waya Stakes at Belmont Park.

The Waya, previously run at 1 1/2 miles at Saratoga, has taken the place on the calendar of the Grade 1 Flower Bowl, which this year was moved to Saratoga by the New York Racing Association.

When Mackinnon left the winner’s circle after the Del Mar Juvenile Turf on Sept. 6, trainer Doug O’Neill said the main objective for the autumn was the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf there on Nov. 5 with the possibility of no races in between.

Mackinnon will not go that long between races.

Sunday, Mackinnon will start with an excellent chance for a third consecutive win, when he runs in the $200,000 Zuma Beach Stakes for 2-year-olds at a mile on turf at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A baffling edition of the Zenyatta Stakes on Sunday at Santa Anita may determine if the home team is represented in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Del Mar, or if this year’s Distaff is for visitors only.

A field of eight – seven California locals and one Midwest shipper – entered the Grade 2 Zenyatta, a BC Distaff Win and You’re In and a confounding race for both horsemen and horseplayers.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Coming off a pair of dominant victories at Saratoga, Echo Zulu comes to Belmont Park as a strong favorite in Sunday’s Grade 1, $400,000 Frizette Stakes, hoping to obtain the fees-paid berth into the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Del Mar on Nov. 5.

The Breeders’ Cup Classic will have a post time of 5:40 p.m. Pacific, or 8:40 Eastern, at Del Mar near San Diego on Saturday, Nov. 6, the company announced on Thursday.

The Classic will be the last race of a 12-race card on Nov. 6. Nine Breeders’ Cup races are scheduled to be run on Saturday, starting at 12:05 Pacific, with approximately 40 minutes between each race. The Classic will go to post one hour after the previous race, which is usually the Turf.

ELMONT, N.Y. – In his quest to win a seventh Champagne, trainer Todd Pletcher is coming to Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 stakes for juveniles from three different angles.

In Wit, a son of 2016 Champagne winner Practical Joke, Pletcher has a proven stakes performer coming off a tough-trip second in the Grade 1 Hopeful.

In My Prankster, Pletcher has a brilliant debut winner stepping into stakes company with hopes of duplicating what Uncle Mo (2010), Havana (2013) and Daredevil (2014) did for him.

The Awesome Again, as Winston Churchill once famously described Russia, is “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” The race is named for a horse who never ran at Santa Anita, and once you ponder that you can move on to the germane questions for this year’s race, such as:

Can the 3-year-old Medina Spirit step up and beat older horses?

Can Tripoli continue his newfound glory now that he’s moved to dirt?

Can Tizamagician be as effective turning back to 1 1/8 miles as he is at 1 1/4 miles, and particularly beyond?