ARCADIA, Calif. – Cleopatra’s Strike, who won the Grade 2 John Henry Turf Championship at 1 1/4 miles on Sept. 28 in his first start since January, is scheduled to have his next start in the Grade 2 Seabiscuit Handicap on Nov. 30 at Del Mar.

Trainer Phil D’Amato said recently that the BC Turf at 1 1/2 miles is beyond Cleopatra’s Strike best distance. The $200,000 Seabiscuit Handicap is run at 1 1/16 miles on turf.

“I don’t know if he’s a mile-and-a-half horse,” he said. “I think the spacing is good. It’s a lot of money to put him in that field for the Breeders’ Cup.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Sherwood Chillingworth, executive vice president of the Oak Tree Racing Association for 26 years, died Tuesday after a brief hospitalization, according to friends.

Chillingworth was 93.

Best known to friends and racing colleagues as Chilly, Chillingworth had an extensive background in real estate development and had been a racehorse owner since the early 1970s.

With partners, Chillingworth raced Swing Till Dawn, who won the 1983 Charles H. Strub Stakes; Yashgan, who won the 1985 Oak Tree Invitational; and Forzando, who won the 1985 Met Mile.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – South Bend, whose narrow allowance victory here last Saturday kept him unbeaten in two career starts, could run next in the Nov. 2 Nashua at Aqueduct, said Hunter Rankin, president of Sagamore Farm, which owns the 2-year-old Algorithms colt.

Trained by Stan Hough, South Bend also is under consideration for the Oct. 27 Street Sense and/or the Nov. 30 Kentucky Jockey Club at his home base, Churchill Downs, although Sagamore already has Necker Island as a likely starter for the one-mile Street Sense, Rankin said.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – No word if Chad Brown got to shake hands with Queen Elizabeth II when in England for the Tattersalls Sales early this week, nor whether he got to tell her he’s hoping to once again win the race that will be run in her honor back in the colonies Saturday.

Missed opportunities aside, Brown will be all business when on hand at Keeneland to send out three of the favorites in the 36th running of the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, the sixth and final Grade 1 of the fall meet.

The role of favorite for the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita may become clear in the next week.

Enable, the brilliant mare who was second in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris on Sunday and won the 2018 BC Turf at Churchill Downs, may be sent to California for a final career start. Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager for owner Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, wrote in an email Tuesday that a decision on Enable’s plans will be made “in the coming week or so.”

Imperial Hint, Engage, and Omaha Beach earned themselves berths into the Breeders’ Cup Sprint for winning the Vosburgh, Phoenix, and Santa Anita Sprint Championship, respectively, over the past two weeks. Their respective wins came at the direct expense of Firenze Fire, Whitmore, and Shancelot, all of whom ran too good to lose while coming within a nose, a half-length, and a head of winning one of the final three Breeders’ Cup Challenge races for the Sprint.

Mr. Money, who won four consecutive graded stakes between May and August, is being pointed to the Grade 1, $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita, trainer Bret Calhoun said Wednesday.

Mr. Money had been under consideration for other upcoming stakes, including the Breeders’ Cup Classic. He last raced Sept. 21, finishing second by a neck in the Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing.

“We wanted to work out of that race, see him train a couple of weeks,” Calhoun said. “We are definitely pointing toward the Dirt Mile.”

Joel Rosario will be the new rider on McKinzie in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita, trainer Bob Baffert said Wednesday.

Rosario will take over from Mike Smith, who has ridden McKinzie in all 13 of his starts, which included seven wins and five seconds.

By virtue of her victory in the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera last Sunday at Longchamp, Villa Marina established herself as one of the main threats to Sistercharlie in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita.

The win was the second straight in a group stakes – and third overall – at 1 1/4 miles for Villa Marina. The Filly and Mare Turf will be run at 1 1/4 miles. Villa Marina’s lone loss in her last four starts came in the Group 1 Prix Vermeille, when she finished fourth to winner Star Catcher at 1 1/2 miles.

MIAMI – While trainer Saffie Joseph will take Pennsylvania Derby winner Math Wizard to California for the Breeders’ Cup, he and the connections of In Reality winner Chance It have decided to bypass the BC Juvenile to await the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club at Churchill Downs on Nov. 30.

“He’s already run five times and we didn’t want to push him to make the Breeders’ Cup,” Joseph explained. “We’re looking more at the big picture with him, and waiting for the Jockey Club gives us extra time, which should be beneficial to him.”