ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Decorated Soldier recorded his second consecutive stakes victory in the Presque Isle Mile Stakes on Sept. 16, and will make his next start in the Grade 2, $175,000 Autumn Stakes on Nov. 3 over 1 1/16 miles on Woodbine’s Tapeta, trainer Norm McKnight said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Grade 3 Mazarine Stakes winner Tiz Breathtaking will likely point to the $225,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes over 1 1/16 miles for Ontario-bred 2-year-olds here on Nov. 4, but trainer Mike Doyle has not ruled out a potential trip to Churchill Downs for a start in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.

“It’s still under consideration, but staying here probably makes more sense,” he said. “We haven’t really made a decision. She’s come out of [the Mazarine] great and she might run here in the Princess Elizabeth.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer David Simcock added another Woodbine Grade 1 to his list of career achievements on Saturday when the English-based Desert Encounter won the Grade 1 Canadian International Stakes by a length over another European invader, Thundering Blue.

ARCADIA, Calif. – King of Speed will start in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, while Vasilika will remain in California and miss the BC Filly and Mare Turf at Churchill Downs next month, their trainers said on Sunday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Cruel Intention, the sparkling winner of a maiden special weight race for California-bred 2-year-olds at Santa Anita last Saturday, was trainer Bob Baffert’s 15th juvenile maiden winner since mid-July.

Cruel Intention fills a void on the Baffert team as a runner eligible for statebred stakes. Baffert said on Sunday that Cruel Intention will be pointed for the $200,000 Golden State Juvenile at seven furlongs for statebreds at Santa Anita on Nov. 3.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Due to the spate of wet weather that has taken its toll on Belmont Park’s turf courses this fall, the New York Racing Association canceled turf works scheduled for Sunday. That forced trainer Chad Brown to make some adjustments when it came to preparing horses for their upcoming Breeders’ Cup engagements.

Brown sent expected Breeders’ Cup starters Sistercharlie, Robert Bruce and Newspaperofrecord out over Belmont Park’s main track for workouts Sunday morning.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The champion West Coast, and leading Breeders’ Cup hopefuls such as Accelerate, Catalina Cruiser, City of Light, McKinzie and Selcourt were among 144 recorded works on a gray morning at Santa Anita on Sunday.

Accelerate, the leading older male in California this year, worked a half-mile in 47.80 seconds for the BC Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3.

The stakes schedule for the 2018 – 2019 Fair Grounds meeting will include 56 races worth $6.89 million, according to a Tweet published by the Fair Grounds Twitter account linking to a PDF document.

Last season’s stakes schedule included 57 races worth $6.69 million. The race removed from the upcoming schedule was the relatively inconsequential $50,000 Louisiana Champions Day Handicap Stakes.

The additional purse money in the 2018 – 2019 schedule comes from a $25,000 increase to 10 stakes that were worth $50,000 last season.

John Velazquez has picked up the mount on Cotillion winner Midnight Bisou for the Breeders' Cup Distaff on Nov. 3 at Churchill Downs, Jeff Bloom, whose Bloom Racing Stable co-owns Midnight Bisou in a partnership, said Sunday morning.

Mike Smith has been the regular rider for Midnight Bisou, but he is also the regular rider for Abel Tasman, 4, who is also pointing to the Distaff. After Abel Tasman worked strongly Friday morning at Santa Anita, Smith and his agent, Brad Pegram, informed Bloom that they would, as expected, remain with Abel Tasman for the Distaff.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Catholic Boy, who missed a workout last weekend due to a temperature, got back on schedule for the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Sunday morning by working a sharp five furlongs in 1:01.08 over the Belmont Park main track.