ELMONT, N.Y. – Bonus Points recorded his only victory in an off-the-turf maiden race at Belmont on Oct. 1. But he will be headed back to the turf in Saturday’s $100,000 Awad Stakes for 2-year-old males at a mile.

Bonus Points, trained by Todd Pletcher, debuted on turf, running fourth behind Oscar Performance, who came back to win the Pilgrim Stakes. While Bonus Points was beaten a total of 11 1/4 lengths in his debut, he was beaten only a length for second.

“He ran pretty well first time out, better than it looks,” Pletcher said.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Innovative Idea’s tour of North America makes a stop at Belmont Park on Saturday, when the stakes-winning 4-year-old filly runs in the Grade 3, $200,000 Turnback the Alarm Handicap for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles.

Innovative Idea, a daughter of Bernardini trained by Eoin Harty for Godolphin Racing, has raced this year at Tampa Bay Downs, Keeneland, Arlington Park, Prairie Meadows, Ellis Park, and, most recently, Churchill Downs.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The Canadian-based trainer Josie Carroll has made only two trips to Belmont Park in her career and doesn’t have fond memories of either one. She hopes for a different type of experience when she sends out Ami’s Flatter here in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Bold Ruler Handicap.

Ami’s Flatter will be Carroll’s third starter at Belmont. In 2001, Mapp Hill finished seventh in the Grade 3 Flash Stakes. Earlier this year, Ami’s Flatter ran fifth in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, 16 3/4 lengths behind the runaway winner, Frosted.

Breakin the Fever’s victory in the $142,000 Hudson Handicap last Saturday at Belmont Park gave the husband-and-wife training team of Ronald and Debra Breed their biggest career victory.

The Breeds have been based at Finger Lakes since the early 1980s. As Ronald Breed put it, “I train the horses, and Debra runs the barn.”

Ronald Breed is 71. Before setting up shop at Finger Lakes, he worked downstate for Hall of Fame trainer Eddie Neloy and for Johnny Campo.

No Breeders’ Cup race has produced more multiple winners than the Mile, and Tepin, despite having lost her most recent start, figures to be favored to become the sixth horse to win more than one edition of the Mile.

Tepin, who won the 2015 Mile at Keeneland by more than two lengths, was among 23 horses pre-entered in the Mile, which will have 14 runners at most, leaving nine horses on the outside looking in toward the main body of the field.

Golden Mischief has learned a new trick over the past several months and used it to win the $100,000 My Trusty Cat last Friday night at Delta Downs in Vinton, La. Now, she has earned a chance at the meet’s biggest prize for 2-year-old fillies. Trainer Steve Asmussen said Golden Mischief is being pointed to the Grade 3, $400,000 Delta Downs Princess.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Traditionally, the winning formula for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint has required not only a very fast horse but a lot of racing luck to successfully negotiate a short distance, six furlongs, through a large field. But that formula will change slightly this year since traffic may not be as big an issue, with only nine horses pre-entered for the Sprint on Monday.

The $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf could lose its probable favorite, but it gained an interesting addition when pre-entries for the one-mile grass race Nov. 4 at Santa Anita were announced Wednesday.

After a one-year hiatus, trainer Todd Pletcher is back in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, albeit in a slightly different position.

The last four times Pletcher has participated in the Juvenile, he has sent out the favorite. Uncle Mo (2010) and Shanghai Bobby (2012) delivered victories, while Carpe Diem (2014) and Havana (2013) finished second.

Miss Southern Miss changed the way owner and breeder Pete Cantrell approaches horse racing.

In recent years, Cantrell sold the fillies produced by his broodmare Miss Atlantic City at auction. When trainer Keith Desormeaux saw Miss Southern Miss as a weanling at a Kentucky farm in 2014, he advised a different approach.

“He convinced me not to sell her,” Cantrell recalled on Tuesday. “He said, ‘This is the one we want to run.’ He’s been high on her since he saw her in the pasture.”