ARCADIA, Calif. - One plane carrying Breeders' Cup horses made it from New York to California on Monday, but a second plane was “highly unlikely” to take off on Tuesday morning as scheduled due to Hurricane Sandy, according to a representative of the equine air carrier Tex Sutton.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Game On Dude drew post 5 on Monday and was installed the favorite for Saturday’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, the richest and final race of the 15-race festival at Santa Anita on Friday and Saturday.

A field of 12 went in the 1 1/4-mile Classic after the filly Royal Delta remained, as expected, in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic, and Dullahan opted for the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

Jon White, the morning-line maker at Santa Anita, made Game On Dude the 9-5 favorite. Flat Out and Fort Larned are next at 5-1, with Ron the Greek the fourth choice at 6-1.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Sky Lantern, who might be favored in the $1 million Juvenile Fillies Turf on Friday, shipped to Santa Anita from England this past weekend. By all accounts her flight went fine, and Sky Lantern was scheduled for her first North American training session Tuesday morning. So far, so good. But her trainer, Richard Hannon, surely won’t rest easy until Sky Lantern has come through her race without incident.

ARCADIA, Calif. - With the two ultra-fast fillies, Kauai Katie and Beholder, taking a pass on the $500,000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint in favor of the $2 million BC Juvenile Fillies, the outlook for the Juvenile Sprint changed dramatically Monday.

Two colts with limited experience – Super Ninety Nine and Merit Man – now will be favored in the six-furlong race, which leads off the 15-race Breeders’ Cup as the first of six Friday BC events.

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ARCADIA, Calif.- Autumn stakes in the United States seem to fit the 4-year-old English filly Nahrain.

Last fall, she was second in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Churchill Downs in her first start in this country. Last month, she won the Grade 1 Flower Bowl Invitational at Belmont Park, her only stakes win in four starts this year.

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ARCADIA, Calif. - Facing the toughest field of his career, Slim Shadey will have a definitive role in Saturday’s $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita. He is expected to set the pace, attempting to stretch his speed to 1 1/2 miles for the first time.

“I’m sure we’ll be close to the leaders, if we’re not on the lead,” trainer Simon Callaghan said.

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ARCADIA, Calif. – Kentucky-based Groupie Doll, early favorite for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Saturday, needed very little time to settle in at Santa Anita.

Winner of four consecutive stakes, Groupie Doll arrived Saturday and by nightfall was “bucking and playing in her stall” according to owner-trainer Buff Bradley’s traveling team.

With Hurricane Sandy forecast to bring heavy rains and high winds to the East Coast, several racetracks announced Sunday plans to shut down for live racing and simulcasting.

Parx Racing near Philadelphia has cancelled live racing for Monday and Tuesday. The track in Bensalem, Pa.,  expects to remain open for simulcast racing. Live racing will resume with a special Friday program beginning at 12:25 p.m. Eastern  as the track kicks off Breeders’ Cup weekend.

* Suffolk Downs called off its live racing card scheduled for Monday. The track will also be closed for simulcasting.

Grace Hall is fit and ready to ship. She worked a half-mile Saturday at Delaware Park in 47.80 seconds, breezing, a work trainer Tony Dutrow deemed “as good as I could have dreamed.”

Winner of the Grade 2 Indiana Oaks last out and 6 for 10 overall, 3-year-old Grace Hall is scheduled to fly out of New York on Tuesday and run Friday at Santa Anita in the $2 million Ladies’ Classic. The expected field of eight includes early favorite Royal Delta, along with unbeaten fillies Awesome Feather and My Miss Aurelia.