Some Breeders’ Cup races are easier to get a line on than others. Typically, the $2 million BC Juvenile Fillies is not one of them, at least not at this early juncture.

The reason: Three critical Win and You’re In preps still remain, and the results of those will go a long way in determining a pecking order of favoritism for the 38th Juvenile Fillies, to be run at 1 1/16 miles on Nov. 5 at Del Mar.

Those races are the 1 1/16-mile Chandelier on Friday at Santa Anita; the one-mile Frizette on Sunday at Belmont Park; and the 1 1/16-mile Alcibiades on Oct. 8 at Keeneland.

Gamine, Gamine, Gamine. A thousand times, Gamine.

That’s the name everyone will be saying and hearing as the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint draws closer. As a 6 1/4-length winner of this race last fall at Keeneland with a 110 Beyer Speed Figure and the reigning leader atop the filly-mare sprint division since then, there’s little doubt Gamine is the one to beat in the seven-furlong Filly and Mare Sprint. She is the even-money favorite on the early Daily Racing Form line composed by Brad Free among known prospects for the Nov. 6 race at Del Mar.

It seems odd to label Letruska as a late developer. After all, she began her career 7 for 7, and won 11 of her first 15 starts including Group 1s in Mexico City and Grade 3s in the United States.

But this year at age 5, Letruska did change, from above average to exceptional, winning graded stakes at four tracks including three Grade 1s. Late developer? Perhaps. As for her label this fall – Letruska is the early favorite for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Nov. 6 at Del Mar, listed at 2-1 on the preliminary line by Daily Racing Form.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – After a revision of the final times following a malfunction of the timing system during the running of both Florida Sire Series stakes decided here Saturday, Octane has been awarded a 92 Beyer Speed Figure for his victory in the $400,000 In Reality while Outfoxed received a 70 for her easy win in the $40,000 My Dear Girl.

Both races were run at 1 1/16 miles, with Octane’s final time nearly 2.4 seconds faster than Outfoxed covered the same distance an hour earlier over the fast track.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Joe Orseno’s goal all season was to get Imprimis back to the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint after he lost all chance a year ago in the race due to a very unlucky trip at Keeneland. But those plans have been shelved, with Imprimis back in Ocala where he was scheduled to undergo another throat surgery Monday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Todd Pletcher could have two top contenders for the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 6 at Del Mar after weekend stakes victories by Life Is Good and Mind Control.

Life Is Good did what was expected of him in Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Kelso Handicap when he scored a 5 1/2-length front-running victory as the 1-20 favorite.

Mind Control won for the first time around two turns when he battled back after being passed by Silver State to capture the Parx Dirt Mile by a head.

The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 5 gained a potential international starter when Hello You recorded a mild upset in Friday’s Group 2 Rockfel Stakes at seven furlongs at Newmarket in England.

Hello You (who paid $15.40 in American pools) earned a fees-paid berth to the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf with a first career stakes win in the $122,900 Rockfel Stakes.

Breeders’ Cup has chartered two flights, one from the Midwest and one in the New York area, to transport horses to its Nov. 5-6 event at Del Mar outside San Diego, the company announced Wednesday.

The first of the two FedEx chartered flights, leaving from Newark International direct to San Diego International Airport, is scheduled for Oct. 31. The second, leaving from Indianapolis International Airport in Indiana, is scheduled for Nov. 1. Each flight can carry a maximum of 33 horses. 

ARCADIA, Calif. - Astronaut, the lightly raced Shirreffs trainee who earned a fees-paid berth to the BC Turf by winning the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap on Aug. 21 at Del Mar, will train into the Breeders’ Cup rather than shorten to a mile and one-quarter in the Grade 2 John Henry Turf Championship on Oct. 2 at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Edgeway will be up against it facing one of the most heavily favored runners of the 2021 Breeders’ Cup, but trainer John Sadler will take his best shot by sending Edgeway into the Filly and Mare Sprint as a fresh filly.

Sadler acknowledged that, at least on paper, “nobody can beat Gamine. But who’s in the second tier? – Frank’s Rockette, Edgeway, maybe Kimari. I’m going to train [Edgeway] into the Breeders’ Cup. She does well with spacing.”