A career-best effort by Frank’s Rockette when finishing second to Wicked Whisper in the Frizette Stakes on Sunday at Belmont Park has her in line for a potential trip to California for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Nov. 1, according to her trainer, Bill Mott.

Frank’s Rockette, in her fourth start and racing as a far as a mile for the first time, got a Beyer Speed Figure of 82 chasing wire-to-wire winner Wicked Whisper. That gives Frank’s Rockette, a daughter of Into Mischief, a record of 2 wins and 2 seconds in 4 starts.

MIAMI – It’s hard for a horse to earn a spot in a Breeders’ Cup race. If they are based in South Florida this year, it seems it is even harder to get them there.

Stormy Embrace won an expenses-paid berth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint for a second year in a row by virtue of her victory in the Grade 2 Princess Rooney this past summer at Gulfstream Park. Trainer Kathleen O’Connell is planning on running her in the Breeders’ Cup again, but only if she can get her a direct flight to California, which is a bit problematic at the moment.

While emphasizing that he’s “not ruling anything out this week,” trainer Richard Mandella said he is leaning toward running Omaha Beach in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita following his terrific comeback win last Saturday in the Santa Anita Sprint Championship, which was a Win and You’re In for the BC Sprint.

Mandella said after the race that the Sprint, Dirt Mile, and Classic – all on Nov. 2 – all were potentially in play. But with a couple of days to think things over and observe Omaha Beach, he said the Classic might be asking too much.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Jockey Emma-Jayne Wilson is projecting a November return to competition after going to the sidelines due to a spill here Sept. 8. Wilson sustained a broken left clavicle and hand fractures when she fell hard onto the turf course.

Catalina Cruiser remains on pace for a start in the Breeders’ Cup next month at Santa Anita, but the race in which he will run is still being decided, trainer John Sadler said Monday.

Catalina Cruiser has won three Grade 2 races in his three starts this year – all at different distances. They include the Pat O’Brien at Del Mar, which earned him a Win and You’re In berth for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 2. He’s since been working regularly at his base of Santa Anita.

Mongolian Groom, upset winner of the Awesome Again Stakes on Sept. 28 at Santa Anita, will be nominated to the Breeders’ Cup for $200,000 in order to make him eligible to run in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita, trainer Enebish Ganbat said Tuesday.

“I think we will go to the Classic,” said Ganbat, who trains Mongolian Groom for the Mongolian Stable of owner Ganbaatar Dagvadorj. “He has to pay. There’s no other way.”

Before three Win and You’re In events for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint were run within the span of a couple of hours last Sunday, Wesley Ward was looking pretty strong toward the Nov. 1 race at Santa Anita.

He woke up Monday looking even stronger.

Winning efforts from a couple of Ward-trained 2-year-olds – Four Wheel Drive in the Futurity at Belmont and Kimari in the Indian Summer at Keeneland – have made him the central figure as the five-furlong BC Juvenile Turf Sprint approaches.

“It was a great day for us, no doubt,” Ward said.

A pair of key preps for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint last Saturday produced a few viable challengers to the likely favorites, Covfefe and Come Dancing.

Spiced Perfection, making her first start in more than five months, put forth an extraordinary effort in holding off a late-closing Dawn the Destroyer in the Grade 2 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes at Keeneland, while Lady Ninja nipped the comebacking Selcourt in winning the Grade 3 L.A. Woman at Santa Anita.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Tiz the Law, the dominant winner of the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes last Saturday at Belmont Park, won’t be heading west for the Breeders’ Cup, but he could very well be hitting the road for his next start, according to trainer Barclay Tagg.

Tiz the Law will be strongly considered for the Grade 2, $300,000 Kentucky Jockey Club at Churchill Downs on Nov. 30. That race is run around two turns at 1 1/16 miles. It is a week earlier than the Grade 2, $250,000 Remsen Stakes going 1 1/8 miles at Aqueduct.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Arklow, winner of Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Joe Hirsch Stakes, will be pointed to the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita and a decision on his participation will likely be made closer to entry time.

Trainer Brad Cox said his initial feeling is that Arklow probably likes a turf course with a little give in the ground as was the case at Belmont on Saturday. Cox did say that Arklow ran a super second over firm turf in the Kentucky Downs Turf Cup last month.