ARCADIA, Calif. - Lady Eli, dominant winner of Friday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita, came out of her race in good shape and will get a vacation in south Florida before preparing for her 3-year-old campaign, trainer Chad Brown said Saturday.

“She looked good this morning, ate up everything," Brown said. "Cold and tight everywhere. Really pleased with her this morning."

Brown said that Lady Eli would be shipped to Palm Meadows, a training center in south Florida, early this week.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Leandro Mora reported all was well Saturday morning with Goldencents, the now-retired colt who went out in a blaze of glory the previous afternoon with a front-running repeat in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita.

Goldencents, ridden by Rafael Bejarano, won the Dirt Mile by 1 1/4 lengths over Tapiture, ending his 18-race career with more than $3 million in earnings. He will soon be sent to his next home, Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky, where he will begin his stud career next year.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Calculator was scratched on Saturday morning from the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, with trainer Peter Miller reporting he has a sore foot.

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Calculator finished second most recently in the FrontRunner Stakes to American Pharoah, who would have been the favorite in the Juvenile before he had to be withdrawn this week with a leg injury.
 

ARCADIA, Calif. – Two near misses in stakes at Santa Anita and Del Mar by Kathleen Rose this year made it easy for trainer Mike Machowsky to pick an early-November race.

While Sunday’s $200,000 Goldikova Stakes over a mile on turf at Santa Anita had appeal, the $75,000 Kathryn Crosby Stakes over a mile on turf at Del Mar next Friday has been chosen for Kathleen Rose’s next start.

“We were thinking of the Goldikova, but looking at the noms, we thought it would be more important to get a stakes win for her,” Machowsky said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – While trainer Todd Pletcher will run two undefeated Grade 1 winners in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita, his other undefeated Grade 1-winning juvenile colt is close to returning to his barn.

Competitive Edge, who went 2 for 2 at Saratoga, including a dominant victory in the Grade 1 Hopeful, sustained a hairline fracture of his left foreleg in mid-September and could return to Pletcher in south Florida by mid-November. Competitive Edge underwent surgery in September to have two screws inserted to stabilize the injury.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainers Mark Casse, Christophe Clement, Ken McPeek, John Sadler, and Wesley Ward have won a lot of races in their careers.

Oddly enough, none of the quintet has won a Breeders’ Cup race. It’s not for lack of trying. The five horsemen entered this year’s two-day Breeders’ Cup event a combined 0 for 112 in the series but have many live contenders this year.

Clement, winless with 23 starters, has three horses in this year’s event: Belmont Stakes and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Tonalist (Classic), Irish Mission (Filly and Mare Turf), and Summer Front (Mile).

ARCADIA, Calif. – Sweet Reason will be equipped with a transparent green bubble over her right eye Saturday in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint because of an injury she incurred in her last race, the Sept. 20 Cotillion at Parx.

“It doesn’t affect the way she goes,” trainer Leah Gyarmati said. “It’s just there as a precaution.”

Mike Watchmaker

There really is no close approximation of the Santa Anita turf course among the regular circuit of racecourses in Europe. Two tight turns and grass cut short as a pool tabletop are not conditions to be found overseas, and there have been European jockeys surprised and overwhelmed by the demands of the smaller American ovals, Santa Anita in particular, upon riding Breeders’ Cup races with foreign horses.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The tallest participants in the Breeders’ Cup Classic are Rashard Lewis, the two-time NBA All-Star who is a co-owner of Cigar Street, and Tonalist, who is looking to end his season with an emphatic slam dunk Saturday.

Tonalist, the winner of the Belmont Stakes and Jockey Club Gold Cup, arrived here late Tuesday and went to the track for the first time Wednesday morning with exercise rider Lee Vickers. He merely jogged, but against the backdrop of the nearby San Gabriel Mountains, he looked like one of the peaks.