LEXINGTON, Ky. – Angel Montano didn’t make the trip Thursday to Keeneland to saddle Dapper Sam, the latest winner in his remarkable training career. Montano recently turned 78 and has trouble getting around, owing to a bum hip and other maladies, so he watched on TV from his Louisville condominium.

Diversify, the Grade 1 Whitney winner who finished fifth in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, will not run in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, owner Ralph Evans said Thursday night.

Evans said a number of factors went into the decision including the health of trainer Rick Violette, who has been hospitalized for the past few weeks with an illness, Diversify’s poor performance in the Gold Cup and the horse’s previous poor experience at Churchill Downs.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Divine Miss Grey, the runner-up to Wow Cat in the Grade 1 Beldame last Saturday, is under consideration for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, trainer Danny Gargan said Wednesday.

Immediately after the Beldame, Gargan dismissed the Breeders’ Cup, but he has had a change of heart.

“I think the Distaff is going to come up an easy race,” Gargan said. “She came out of [the Beldame] so good, I’m considering it.”

Gargan also said the Grade 2, $200,000 Chilukki going a one-turn mile at Churchill on Nov. 3 is being considered.

Discreet Lover, winner of the Grade 1 Jockey Gold Cup 11 days ago, worked a half-mile at Parx Racing on Wednesday morning and is expected to be removed from the veterinarian's list when his blood work returns, according to trainer Uriah St. Lewis.

The Jockey Club Gold Cup is part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series and earned Discreet Lover a fees-paid berth in the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3.

ELMONT, N.Y. – After winning four stakes last weekend at Belmont Park, trainer Christophe Clement is hoping to keep the momentum going with major contenders in Saturday’s two turf stakes at Belmont.

Clement will send out Victorine in the $200,000 Pebbles Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at a mile and Lull in the $100,000 Floral Park Stakes for fillies and mares at six furlongs.

If you were looking for clarity in the Breeders’ Cup Mile three weeks out from the race – well, keep on peering into the fog.

In the Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile on Oct. 6 at Keeneland the top three betting choices finished fourth, eighth, and 11th. Next Shares, a 23-1 shot, came through a gaping hole along the rail at the top of the stretch and powered home to win by 4 1/2 lengths. “Powered” probably is the wrong word. Over a course rated good, it took Next Shares almost 24.75 seconds to run his final quarter-mile, a relative eternity by top-class turf-mile standards.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Rarely do you see a draw for a 1 1/2-mile turf race as important as the one for Saturday’s $800,000 Canadian International. The inside portion of Woodbine’s 12-furlong course has been unused since Sept. 16, and those two paths should provide smooth footing for the horses who are fortunate enough to race there in the Grade 1 fixture.

City of Light will bring a good deal of upside into the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 3 at Churchill Downs – despite the fact that he’s already a multiple Grade 1 winner and millionaire.

“He’s lightly raced, still developing, getting better all the time,” trainer Michael McCarthy said.

Only three trainers have won more Breeders’ Cup races than Bill Mott, whose 10 successes include two victories in the Classic, with Cigar in 1995 and with Drosselmeyer in 2011, the last time the Breeders’ Cup was run at Churchill Downs, host of this year’s event.

As with Drosselmeyer, who was 14-1, Mott will take aim at this year’s Classic on Nov. 3 with a longshot, Yoshida, who is 12-1 on the early line from Mike Watchmaker, Daily Racing Form’s national handicapper.

The American cast pointed toward the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf on Nov. 3 at Churchill Downs is shaping up short of participants.

U.S.-campaigned horses comprise only five of the 13 leading prospects Daily Racing Form considers possible for the race, and of those, only Sistercharlie, Fourstar Crook, and longshot Mom’s On Strike seem more likely to run than not. The other two, Santa Monica and Vasilika, seem like only outside chances to compete.