The first time he came to America from Brazil, in 2001, Paulo Lobo was given five fillies, purchased as yearlings in 2000, to train by his backers at home. One was named Farda Amiga. In 2002, she won the Kentucky Oaks, the Alabama, and finished second to Azeri in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Lobo never has run another horse in a Breeders’ Cup race.

Oodnadatta will start in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Friday at Keeneland without the benefit of a stakes win in her brief career in Ireland. Judging from the company she faced in recent starts, the losses should not be held against the filly, who will be ridden by top Irish jockey Shane Foley.

Tacitus often has promised more than he has delivered, but he’ll try to make up for all that Saturday when he starts, unusually for him, as a longshot in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland.

Tacitus has won just one of his last 10 starts, and has been favored in six of his last nine races, including his last start, the Jockey Club Gold Cup, in which he was third as the 3-5 favorite.

“His last race was disappointing,” Mott said during a conference call Monday. “Wound up on the lead, because someone had to be.”

Trainer Brad Cox’s powerhouse lineup for this year’s Breeders’ Cup got just a bit deeper Monday when he decided that Owendale would join Knicks Go in the $1 million Dirt Mile on Saturday at Keeneland.

Cox had been on the fence with Owendale, saying that if Owendale passed the Breeders’ Cup he would go straight to the Grade 1 Clark later this month at Churchill Downs. But Owendale was part of Cox’s bulky list of final entries Monday. Florent Geroux was named to ride, Cox said.

LEXINGTON, KY. – The sensational Nashville, who has won his first two career starts by a combined margin of 21 lengths, will bypass the Breeders’ Cup Sprint to run instead in the Perryville Stakes on Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup undercard.

Wesley Ward pre-entered 10 youngsters in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, a race he won last year. Six of those also were pre-entered in the Juvenile Turf or Juvenile Fillies Turf, both run at a mile. Ward, known for his prowess with his globe-trotting 2-year-olds, is a master at placing young horses in a position for success. He said that a horse’s physical build and way of moving can be tells as to which will handle stretching out, and which ought to remain sprinters.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Imprimis was a graded stakes winner at Keeneland this season and won his most recent outing in September at Kentucky Downs, but trainer Joe Orseno was in no hurry to ship the gelding from his Florida base back to the Bluegrass State to prepare for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. In addition to getting to remain in his regular routine for longer, Imprimis enjoys a specific local luxury.

Beau Recall wasn’t expected to be entered in the Breeders’ Cup Mile on Monday as her connections have opted to point toward a less challenging race.

Trainer Brad Cox said Sunday that Beau Recall would be redirected toward the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes on Nov. 29 at Del Mar. Beau Recall also is entered in Keeneland’s November sale as hip No. 194 scheduled to go to auction on Nov. 9. Her racing future hinges on the results of that sale, Cox said.

Princess Secret, a 2-year-old filly owned and trained by Daniel Pita, tested positive for an anabolic steroid in an out-of-competition sample pulled on Oct. 26 and will not be permitted to run in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington on Friday, Breeders’ Cup announced on Monday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – There will be no home-court advantage when Monomoy Girl faces Swiss Skydiver in their eagerly awaited matchup Saturday in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Keeneland.

Although both are very well-traveled, both are quite familiar with the local surface. Before their racing careers even began, both had their first timed workout at Keeneland – Monomoy Girl on June 14, 2017, and Swiss Skydiver on May 30, 2019 – and both have raced over the track once apiece.