ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Bob Baffert used equipment known as “rings” on Tap It Rich for his final workout Monday before Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

Tap It Rich, under jockey Rafael Bejarano, worked five furlongs in 1:00.57 over Santa Anita’s main track, and it was evident that the horse wanted to do more. Tap It Rich had his head cocked to the left around the far turn during the work but kept it straight down the lane. The rings, through which the reins are slid, are designed to keep a horse from getting his head up high.

ARCADIA, Calif. – In the week leading up to a big event such as the Breeders’ Cup, a lot of emphasis is put on morning workouts. Trainer Mark Casse, however, believes workouts can be overrated. In the cases of the 2-year-olds My Conquestadory (Juvenile Fillies Turf) and Conquest Titan (Juvenile), neither will have an official work the week before their Breeders’ Cup engagements.

“Most of the time, breezing, I think it’s overrated, for one thing,” Casse said Monday from Florida. “As long as they’re happy and healthy and training good.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Joshua Tree appears to be right at home at Woodbine.

That lesson was hammered home again here Sunday, when the 6-year-old horse, racing in the $1 million Canadian International for the fourth consecutive year, won the Grade 1 event for the third time. His only loss in the Canadian International came in 2011, when he finished second.

Joshua Tree’s winning payoffs in the Canadian International were $15.30 on Sunday, $10.70 last year, and $11.20 in 2010, and he was 11-1 when he was the runner-up.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Tannery, who won the $500,000 E.P. Taylor Stakes at Woodbine on Sunday, could swing back in Aqueduct’s Nov. 9 Long Island, a 1 1/2-mile turf race for fillies and mares that offers Grade 3 status and a purse of $150,000.

“We might squeeze the lemon a little bit, then put her away for the season,” said trainer Alan Goldberg, speaking from his Colts Neck Farm headquarters in New Jersey.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The California-based runners for Saturday’s $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita are likely to be overshadowed by shippers from New York and Europe. Indy Point, the winner of the Grade 2 John Henry Turf Championship here Sept. 29, could keep the prize on the West Coast.

On Sunday, Indy Point worked a half-mile on turf in 48.20 seconds, an effort that trainer Richard Mandella described as “easy.” Exercise rider David Neusch did not urge Indy Point through the stretch.

ARCADIA, Calif. – For a Breeders’ Cup runner, Blueskiesnrainbows has had an unconventional schedule in advance of the $500,000 BC Marathon at Santa Anita on Friday.

Not many Breeders’ Cup horses have their final two prep races at the Los Angeles County Fair and the Big Fresno Fair in California.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The Breeders’ Cup picture is starting to come into sharper focus after a couple of weekends of watching workouts on both coasts. Things might be even clearer were it not for the fog that rolled in at Santa Anita on Saturday and again Sunday morning, obscuring the view of many works from high atop the grandstand.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Mike Pender’s two Breeders’ Cup pre-entrants, Boat Trip and Jeranimo, are cross-entered in the Mile and the Turf Sprint, and though Pender said no decision has been made, it seems clear that he and both horses’ owners are leaning toward the Turf Sprint.

“In all likelihood, you’re going to see both of them wind up in the [Turf] Sprint,” Pender said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Sweet Reason is heading into the Breeders’ Cup as the likely favorite for the $2 million Juvenile Fillies on Saturday at Santa Anita, but in her lone local work here Sunday, she dawdled around the track in 1:46.80 for a mile.

Trainer Leah Gyarmati said the work was designed more to familiarize Sweet Reason with having to negotiate two turns for the first time in the Juvenile Fillies than to get her fit.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Dank arrived from Europe on Saturday, and the classy import, whose most recent start was a romping win in the Grade 1 Beverly D. at Arlington, is expected to be favored Nov. 2 in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita.

Meanwhile, a key defection softened the pace scenario for the East Coast-based Laughing. With the withdrawal of front-runner Vionnet, Laughing could be loose on the lead in the 1 1/4-mile race.