ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Pohdi Pohdi appeared poised for a big run as the morning-line favorite in the Fanfreluche Stakes on Oct. 26 at Woodbine, but she had to be scratched after flipping on her way over to the paddock. Trainer Robert Tiller said Pohdi Pohdi escaped the incident without serious injury, but will be given the rest of the year off.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – While the Breeders’ Cup World Championships helped to settle several divisional championships for the Eclipse Awards, several horses may have secured Sovereign Award championships as a result of their performances at Santa Anita, Woodbine, and Churchill Downs over the weekend.

The Conquest Stables duo of Conquest Typhoon and Conquest Harlanate could be named champion 2-year-old male and champion 2-year-old female, respectively, after they both participated in Breeders’ Cup races on Friday.

CYPRESS, Calif. - A 2-year-old gelding who got loose during warm-ups and fell into an infield pond on Sunday night was saved from drowning by the efforts of an outrider, a veterinarian and members of the track’s maintenance and starting gate crews.

Walk the Dog, co-owned and trained by Lin Melton, unseated his rider before the seventh race and jumped a rail into the infield. Outrider Eric Najduch ran into the infield and was trying to corral Walk the Dog when the gelding fell into a pond on the westernmost part of the infield, which is not lit at night.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Jockey Mike Luzzi suffered a broken leg and a fractured pelvis in a paddock accident prior to the ninth race at Aqueduct on Sunday.

Luzzi, 45, had just been given a leg up on the 2-year-old filly Tricky Zippy when she flipped over and fell on top of him. On Sunday night, Luzzi’s agent, David Grace, said Luzzi had fractured his pelvis in five places and the tibia of his left leg in two places.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Little Alexis, who finished a disappointing ninth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, was scratched from Monday’s Fasig-Tipton sale after spiking a temperature of 104 immediately after the race due to a possible reaction to her Lasix shot, according to owner-trainer Carlo Vaccarezza.

Vaccarezza said Little Alexis, who finished third earlier this year in the Grade 1 Test, returned to the barn after the Sprint breathing heavily and with a noticeable lump on the left side of her neck. 

ARCADIA, Calif. – Owner-trainer Wesley Ward said from Florida early Sunday that he intends to bring Judy the Beauty back as a 6-year-old next April at Keeneland in the Grade 1 Madison Stakes, a race the mare won this year en route to what surely will be a divisional championship.

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.