ARCADIA, Calif. – After watching Mitole cap off his stellar 2019 campaign with a 1 1/4-length victory over Shancelot in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint, trainer Steve Asmussen must now digest the fact his Horse of the Year candidate’s racing career is over.

Mitole, who closed out the year with six wins in seven starts and four Grade 1 victories at distances ranging from six furlongs to one mile, will begin stud duties next season at Spendthrift Farm. He has been campaigned throughout his career by Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt. 

ARCADIA, Calif. – Ollie’s Candy, fourth-place finisher in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Saturday, will race as a 5-year-old in 2020 and begin the season as the top-ranked older filly and mare in California.

Owners Paul and Karen Eggert decided to withdraw Ollie’s Candy from the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale that begins Nov. 6 and instead will keep Ollie’s Candy in training next year with John Sadler. Paul Eggert confirmed the decision Sunday via text.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Sharing’s win in Friday’s Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita is likely to lead to conversations about a potential trip to Royal Ascot in June.

Sharing won her second consecutive stakes in the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf at a mile, closing from fourth in a field of 14 to win by 1 1/4 lengths over the English filly Daahyeh. Sharing (13-1) races for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Antony Beck and is trained by Graham Motion.

ARCADIA, Calif. – For a few moments in deep stretch of Saturday’s Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita, the 4-year-old gelding United looked poised for a massive upset.

United rallied from fourth to take a narrow lead with a furlong remaining, but could not hold off the late kick of Bricks and Mortar, the leading candidate for the title of 2019 Horse of the Year. Bricks and Mortar was the even-money favorite. United was the 51-1 longest shot in a field of 12.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The mare and filly who finished one-two Saturday in the Grade 1, $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile, Uni and Got Stormy, could meet again in 2020.

After Uni had won the mile with a scintillating finish, Sol Kumin, part of Uni’s ownership group, said the 5-year-old mare would campaign again next season. And on Sunday morning, Got Stormy was taken out of a horse auction this week in Kentucky to focus on the continuation of her racing career for owner Gary Barber and trainer Mark Casse.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Iridessa, the 13-1 upset winner of Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita, was scheduled to return to Ireland on Monday but is expected to race in 2020 with a possible year-end target being the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Keeneland.

Bill Dwan, racing manager for owner Mrs. CC Regalado-Gonzalez, said Iridessa would get a break during which time he, Regalado-Gonzalez, and trainer Joseph O’Brien would formulate a plan for 2020.

British Idiom, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, will not race again this year and will winter at Fair Grounds, runner-up Donna Veloce won’t race until January, but third-place finisher Bast could race next month in the Starlet at Los Alamitos, their trainers reported Sunday morning.

British Idiom locked up a divisional Eclipse Award with her victory on Friday. She was on a plane in the wee hours early Saturday morning to Churchill Downs, but soon will relocate to Fair Grounds, trainer Brad Cox said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Omaha Beach, runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Saturday, will be pointed to the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita, the first of two starts he could make before he is scheduled to begin stud duty next year, trainer Richard Mandella said Sunday morning at Santa Anita.

The Malibu is at seven furlongs on Santa Anita’s opening day, Dec. 26. He has sprinted twice previously, and has won both times. On Saturday, Omaha Beach finished 2 3/4 lengths behind Spun to Run, who led the Dirt Mile from start to finish.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Chad Brown’s reward for winning three Breeders’ Cup races at Santa Anita was a red-eye flight to New York where he trained horses at Belmont Park Sunday morning and made the eight-mile drive to Aqueduct to saddle Autonomous, a 2-year-old filly, in the opener. Naturally, Autonomous won.

On the drive, Brown, sounding a little sick, reflected on his sensational Breeders’ Cup success where he won three races from eight runners and may very well have left California with a bona fide Horse of the Year.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Peter Miller had a sore throat Sunday morning, mostly the result of all the screaming he did during the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint the previous afternoon at Santa Anita.

“I’m great otherwise,” Miller said by phone from his home in Encinitas.