DEL MAR, Calif. – The 2-year-old stakes winner Beautiful Shot is probably destined for a career as a late-running sprinter. He will be given a chance to prove otherwise one of these days, but not this Saturday.

In his stakes debut, Beautiful Shot closed from fourth to win the six-furlong Speakeasy Stakes on Oct. 15 at Santa Anita. On Saturday, Beautiful Shot returns in the Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes at seven furlongs at Del Mar.

The distance of the $100,000 Bob Hope Stakes is an ideal fit for Beautiful Shot from trainer Keith Desormeaux’s perspective.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The victory by Gun Runner in the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday left no doubt as to the Horse of the Year and champion older dirt male for 2017, and while several other Eclipse Award divisions were decided over the 13 Breeders’ Cup races Friday and Saturday at Del Mar, a good number are still as murky as the fog that can roll in off the Pacific Ocean here, leaving voters with some potentially difficult choices.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Three interesting allowances highlight Thursday’s 10-race card at Churchill Downs.

The first is the sixth race, a third-level allowance going six furlongs, in which Put Da Blame On Me, the beaten favorite when sixth in the Grade 3 Groupie Doll, is cutting back from a mile to six furlongs and takes on a field in which four of her five foes have either won or placed in stakes.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Although most of the Kentucky-based horses who competed in Breeders’ Cup races and undercard stakes at Del Mar are getting time off, a couple of Mike Maker-trained runners from Breeders’ Cup Saturday could reappear later this month.

Hogy, 11th in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, is being aimed at the $125,000 Aqueduct Turf Sprint Championship on Nov. 25, while Kitten’s Roar, winner of the Grade 2 Goldikova on Saturday’s card, is targeting the Grade 1 Matriarch Nov. 26 at Del Mar.

Though Malcolm Pierce has sent out only six 2-year-olds this year at Woodbine, the trainer has enjoyed success with those runners, including recent wins from Verboten and It’s Fate, along with a third-place finish from Kitten’s Boy in Sunday’s Coronation Futurity Stakes.

Four of Pierce’s juvenile starters have won a maiden race. In all, Pierce’s 2-year-olds have recorded five wins from 14 starts, and eight in-the-money finishes.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Clickity Clack, who recorded her first stakes score in the $225,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes on Oct. 29, could run back in the $125,000 South Ocean Stakes on Nov. 15 or the $125,000 Ontario Lassie Stakes on Dec. 3, trainer Tony Gattellaro said.

The South Ocean is for Ontario-sired 2-year-old fillies, and the Ontario Lassie is for Ontario-bred 2-year-old fillies.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Bookies Luck will be pointed to a third consecutive stakes win against California-breds in the $100,000 King Glorious Stakes on Dec. 16 at Los Alamitos, trainer Jeff Bonde said Sunday.

Bookies Luck is in the midst of an excellent year, having won the I’m Smokin Stakes on Sept. 1 at Del Mar and the Golden State Juvenile at Del Mar last Saturday. In the seven-furlong Golden State Juvenile, Bookies Luck led throughout and held off a late run from an unlucky Smokem to win by a nose as the 8-5 favorite.

DEL MAR, Calif. – One Fast Broad will not race until early 2018 after winning the first stakes of her career in the $200,345 Golden State Juvenile Fillies last Friday at Del Mar.

Owner and trainer Mick Ruis said One Fast Broad will be pointed to the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting. Bolt d’Oro, the beaten favorite in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Saturday, will have the same schedule as One Fast Broad.

“We’ll give her 60 days, like Bolt d’Oro,” Ruis said. “We’ll let her grow up and get ready for her 3-year-old campaign. She deserves a little break.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – November will be a rebuilding month for prominent California trainer John Sadler.

Last Friday, Sadler had two leading hopes in Breeders’ Cup races at Del Mar, but sustained disappointing results. Accelerate finished ninth of 10 at odds of 7-2 in the BC Dirt Mile. Stellar Wind was last of eight at 3-1 in the BC Distaff.

Following Avery Island’s impressive Sunday victory in the Grade 2 Nashua at Aqueduct, Godolphin and trainer Kiaran McLaughlin could have two starters in the Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct.

Enticed, the third-place finisher in the Grade 1 Champagne at Belmont Park, also is being pointed to the Grade 2, $250,000 Remsen, a 1 1/8-mile race for 2-year-olds Dec. 2.