ELMONT, N.Y. – Catholic Boy returned to the work tab Sunday at Belmont Park, breezing a half-mile in 47.72 seconds over the outer turf course. Trainer Jonathan Thomas said that he will most likely train Catholic Boy up to the Breeders’ Cup with the options being the Mile on turf or the Dirt Mile. Thomas said he would also keep an eye on the Classic to see how that race is shaping up.

“We’re breezing him on the turf to at least keep [the Mile] under consideration,” Thomas said. “It’s worked for us before where we kind of used the turf to get to races.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Kevin Attard experienced quite a bit of stakes success in September, recording victories with Starship Jubilee in the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes, Amalfi Coast in the Ontario Damsel Stakes, and Pumpkin Rumble in the Alphabet Soup Handicap at Parx.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Prior to Saturday, Abel Cedillo had three career wins in graded stakes. He equaled that number over the weekend at Santa Anita.

Saturday, Cedillo won the Grade 2 John Henry Turf Championship with Cleopatra’s Strike and the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes with Mongolian Humor. Sunday, he won the Grade 2 Zenyatta Stakes with Paradise Woods, a mare he is likely to ride in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff here on Nov. 2.

“I feel so awesome,” Cedillo said at the end of Sunday’s program. “I never dreamed of this.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Eddie Haskell, second in Friday’s Grade 2 Eddie D Stakes at five furlongs on turf, will be pointed for the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, said trainer Mark Glatt.

Eddie Haskell closed from seventh in a field of eight to finish a half-length behind Pee Wee Reese in the Eddie D Stakes. Eddie Haskell broke from the rail and rallied well through the stretch.

“I think you can say the post beat him,” Glatt said.

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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.