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.

All wagers placed on the pick four Saturday that combined two races from Yonkers and two from Belmont Park were refunded, but those who had the winning combination still got paid.

According to David O’Rourke, the chief revenue officer for the New York Racing Association, the bet processing company AmTote did not stop wagering when the first leg of the bet, the Harry Harvey Trot, went off. The stop betting button was finally hit at some point during the running of that race, according to Will Alempijevic, NYRA’s director of business development.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A storm that brought rain, along with thunder and lightning, stretching from San Diego to Los Angeles forced the closure of the main track at Santa Anita on Saturday morning, a day when a number of horses preparing for the Breeders' Cup, including Classic contenders Accelerate and West Coast, were scheduled to have workouts.

With the main track closed, training was confined to the training track, and only a handful of horses were scheduled to work on it.

The main track was sealed in advance of the afternoon's races.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Carrick, the Grade 1 Secretariat winner who finished a well-beaten sixth in the Grade 1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, will be pointed to the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar on Dec. 1, trainer Tom Morley said.

Morley said the soft turf at Belmont Park for the Joe Hirsch compromised Carrick, a 3-year-old colt.

“I could tell after 10 strides we were in trouble,” Morley said.

Morley said Carrick came out of the race “absolutely fine” and that after the Hollywood Derby, Carrick would be put away and target a 4-year-old campaign.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Forty Under, winner of the Pilgrim Stakes, worked a half-mile in 48.57 seconds Friday morning over the Oklahoma dirt training track at Saratoga in preparation for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf. The track, which had some moisture in it, was labeled “good.”

Trainer Jeremiah Englehart put Forty Under in company with Prince of New York, a maiden New York-bred, and said he got the desired result from both horses.

“I was really happy with him today,” Englehart said of Forty Under. “He showed more energy than in his works in the past.”