The Grade 1 Cotillion on Saturday at Parx should prove critical for the top two challengers to Songbird in determining which Breeders’ Cup race they will run in.

Cathryn Sophia and Carina Mia both have shown themselves to be highly effective at shorter distances, and depending on what transpires in the 1 1/16-mile Cotillion, their connections might wind up opting for the seven-furlong distance of the $1 million BC Filly and Mare Sprint on Nov. 5 at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Breeders’ Cup history will be made before the extraordinarily deep Distaff field even crosses the Santa Anita finish line on Friday, Nov. 4.

Three Eclipse Award winners from 2015, each in top form, are aiming for the Distaff – Songbird, Beholder, and Stellar Wind. If all three start, it will be the first time in the 33-year history of the Breeders’ Cup that the Distaff field includes more than two current champions.

Jockey Laurent Beaucamp, who was severely injured in a Sept. 5 spill at Monmouth Park, remains in critical but stable condition in the Level 2 trauma wing of the Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune City, N.J., where he continues to undergo varying surgeries to repair his numerous injuries.

On Tuesday, Beaucamp was having a plate and screws inserted into his broken left arm. On Monday, doctors "plated" the left side of his rib cage, according to a source close to the situation.

Russell Road surpassed $2 million in earnings with his second-place finish in the Northern Panhandle Stakes at Mountaineer Park on Aug. 6, but he came out of the race with an injury and has been retired at age 10.

Trainer Robertino Diodoro will attack the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby with three starters on Sunday: Inside Straight, Solve, and Way Striking. The horses will be part of an anticipated field of nine or 10 for the richest race of the meet at Remington Park.

“They’re all training well going into it,” Diodoro said Monday.

Tepin came out of her half-length win Saturday in the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile a little tired but in good condition and was headed by van Monday to Saratoga, where she will be stabled briefly before shipping to Keeneland, trainer Mark Casse said.

Canterbury Park concluded its 69-day race meet Sunday with gains in total and out-of-state handle, but the track’s grand experiment with a lowered takeout rate this year produced results that disappointed track officials.

Dortmund, who finished behind California Chrome in two major races at the Del Mar summer meeting, worked five furlongs in 59.80 seconds at Santa Anita on Monday for yet another potential encounter against his rival.

Dortmund could run in the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita on Oct. 1, a leading prep for the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Nov. 5. California Chrome will be favored in the Awesome Again.

ELMONT, N.Y. – On Leave, the front-running 2 3/4-length winner of Saturday’s Grade 2 Sands Point here, is “penciled in” to make her next start in the Grade 1, $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland on Oct. 15, trainer Shug McGaughey said Monday.

“I’m going to watch,” McGaughey said. “If I don’t like everything I see or I think it’s too close, then I just won’t run.”

On Leave won her fourth consecutive race in the Sands Point, running 1 1/8 miles in 1:47.82 and earning a 94 Beyer Speed Figure.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Paola Queen, the upset winner of the Grade 1 Test at Saratoga, was not one of the six 3-year-old fillies entered Monday for Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Cotillion Stakes at Parx.

Instead, Paola Queen will be pointed to the Grade 1, $400,000 Beldame on Oct. 1 at Belmont Park. Though Paola Queen will be taking on older fillies and mares in that 1 1/16-mile race, trainer Gustavo Delgado said it might be easier than facing Songbird, Cathryn Sophia, and Carina Mia in the Cotillion.