ELMONT, N.Y. – Sippican Harbor, the Grade 1 Spinaway winner, worked a solid six furlongs in 1:13.81 Monday morning over Belmont Park’s training track as she continues preparations for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Nov. 2 at Churchill Downs.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Travers winner Catholic Boy skipped a workout this weekend, owing to a temperature that trainer Jonathan Thomas said shouldn’t prevent the 3-year-old from making the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 3 at Churchill Downs.

“It’s very minor in the grand scheme of things,” Thomas said Monday. “He had a mild temperature, which has since rectified. We just didn’t want to take any chances. I’m anticipating being able to breeze him this weekend. I’m glad it’s a month out and not a week out.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – Got Stormy, who won stakes at three different tracks in 50 days during the spring and summer, returns from a three-month freshening in Saturday’s $200,000 Pebbles Stakes at Belmont Park.

Got Stormy, trained by Mark Casse, won the Penn Oaks at Penn National on June 2, the Wild Applause at Belmont on June 23, and the Grade 3 Ontario Colleen Stakes at Woodbine on July 21. All three races were at a mile, the same distance as the Pebbles.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Skye Diamonds was in the winner’s circle minutes after Sunday’s Grade 3 L.A. Woman Stakes at Santa Anita, with one prominent member of her team absent.

Trainer Bill Spawr was on the other side of the grandstand, bound for the paddock. The next race was for a sprint for $10,000 claimers and Spawr had a potential purchase in mind.

“I wanted to look at a horse,” he said.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Rushing Fall will return to the scene of her career breakthrough as a solid favorite Saturday in a prospective field of nine 3-year-old turf fillies in the Grade 1, $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland.

It was last October here in her second race, the Jessamine, that Rushing Fall drew national attention with an eye-catching 3 1/4-length triumph. That race catapulted her to a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar and made her a finalist for a divisional Eclipse Award.

MIAMI – It’s easy to understand why trainer Antonio Sano’s confidence level entering the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Classic with Gunnevera is a lot higher than it was when he sent his star out to Del Mar to finish in a dead heat for fifth in the big event one year ago.

“He’s a year older, more experienced, and there are no Gun Runners or Arrogates in the field this year,” Sano said from Gulfstream Park West on Monday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The first couple of steps for Insta Erma in the First Lady on Saturday produced perhaps the most vivid images of opening weekend at Keeneland. Somehow, some way, Tyler Gaffalione stayed aboard the 5-year-old mare when she stumbled badly out of post 1.

No other horses were affected, and although she was never a serious factor at 23-1, Insta Erma persisted to finish a decent sixth of nine, beaten just 3 1/4 lengths. She came out of the race no worse for wear, according to Aimee Dollase, assistant to trainer Richard Baltas.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Ignacio Correas hit a low point in early 2015 after parting ways with Sagamore Farm, the Maryland breeding and racing operation for which he served as private trainer for several years. So when Blue Prize gave him his first Grade 1 victory in North America by winning the Spinster here on Sunday, Correas – a former leading trainer in his native Argentina – was elated beyond words.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Plenty of folks around Keeneland have known Ben Colebrook since he was a kid, so you might say his first Grade 1 win as a trainer coming at his home track was a pretty big deal.

“I just got done responding to all my messages,” a smiling Colebrook said Sunday afternoon in the aftermath of the stunning 70-1 upset by Knicks Go in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity here Saturday. “It’s still kind of sinking in. It was all pretty surreal.”

Seven-pound apprentice rider Antonio Quiles will be sidelined indefinitely with a broken collarbone and fractured ribs following a spill at Laurel on Friday.

Quiles was aboard Rubys Fire in race 6 when she collapsed in midstretch. Giolilmiss, who was trailing, jumped over the fallen horse and rider.

Quiles is a native of Puerto Rico. He has been riding in the United States since February and has 29 Thoroughbred wins from 229 mounts.

Rubys Fire died as a result of the accident.