ARCADIA, Calif. – The speedy 3-year-old Shancelot, the winner of the Grade 2 Amsterdam Stakes at Saratoga in July, worked a half-mile in 47.20 seconds on Sunday in advance of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Sprint Championship on Saturday.

Shancelot is rated as a leading contender for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint here on Nov. 2.

Sunday, Shancelot had his first workout at Santa Anita since arriving last Wednesday.

“I wanted to give him one [workout] over the track,” trainer Jorge Navarro said. “The main thing is to have him ready for the Breeders’ Cup.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – Though he may not make a final decision for another three weeks, trainer Chad Brown said Sunday that he is leaning toward running Bricks and Mortar in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile rather than the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf. Both races are on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita.

Bricks and Mortar, undefeated in five starts this year, has never raced beyond 1 1/4 miles and is 3 for 3 in his career at one mile. The BC Turf is at 1 1/2 miles.

Trainer Luis Carvajal Jr. said he received a congratulatory text from his colleague Arnaud Delacour following Imperial Hint’s nose victory over Firenze Fire in Saturday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Vosburgh.

“You look at a little pale in the face,” Carvajal said the text read. “I think I’m getting my color back.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – Midnight Bisou was scheduled to ship to Southern California on Monday to continued preparations for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita where the 4-year-old mare will look to complete an undefeated season and state her case for potential Horse of the Year consideration.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Chance It may have earned himself a chance to participate in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile following his super impressive, 7 1/4-length victory making his two-turn debut here Saturday in the $400,000 In Reality Stakes, the finale of the open division of the Florida Sire Stakes. The win was the third in the last four starts for Chance It, whose only loss during that streak was a head setback in the middle leg of the series, the seven-furlong Affirmed.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Upon further review, the connections of Vino Rosso have decided not to appeal the stewards’ decision to disqualify their horse from first and place him second behind Code of Honor in Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park.

Trainer Todd Pletcher said Sunday morning that while he still disagreed with the call, “trying to appeal it is usually a fruitless venture.”

Braulio Baeza Jr., the New York Racing Association steward, told reporters following Saturday’s card that Pletcher had planned to file an appeal on Sunday.

Tax has been scratched from the Oklahoma Derby and could train up to the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita, trainer Danny Gargan said on Sunday.

Tax was to start as one of the top choices in the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby on Sunday at Remington Park for a record that includes a win in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy at Saratoga. He shipped into Oklahoma City on Wednesday from his base of Belmont Park.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Omaha Beach, unraced since a win in the Arkansas Derby in April, zoomed a fast half-mile at Santa Anita on Friday.

Officially, Omaha Beach was timed in 46.60 seconds, but trainer Richard Mandella recorded the workout in 46 seconds, as did some people watching with him.

“A couple of us got 46 flat,” Mandella said.

Regardless, Omaha Beach had a quick workout in advance of a scheduled start in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Sprint Championship at six furlongs on Oct. 5. The $300,000 Sprint Championship will be the shortest race of Omaha Beach’s career.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Tyler Baze will resume riding at Santa Anita on a full-time basis Oct. 5 after spending most of the last six months in the Midwest.

Baze rode primarily at Oaklawn Park, throughout Kentucky, and spent some weekdays at Del Mar during the summer. Baze has won five stakes since mid-April at Midwest tracks.

“I was able to get my name out there,” he said in an interview earlier this week.

“I wanted to ride for new trainers and the guys that don’t know me. I think it was a good run. I got to ride first call for Steve Asmussen at Ellis Park.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Mitole, the multiple Grade 1 winner, breezed a half-mile in 50.13 seconds Friday morning over the Belmont Park training track. It was his first work since he won the Grade 1 Forego at Saratoga on Aug. 24.

The Steve Asmussen-trained Mitole is to make his next start in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 2. He is expected to ship to Southern California on Monday along with stablemate Midnight Bisou, a Breeders’ Cup Distaff contender who was to have had her final prep in Saturday’s Grade 2 Beldame at Belmont.