LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For all the terrific performances by 2-year-olds so far at the Churchill Downs fall meet, none was more eye-catching than the maiden victory by an Indian Charlie colt named Ever So Lucky on Nov. 11. Even his normally hard-to-impress trainer, Jonathan Sheppard, had to agree that, yes, it was pretty awesome.

“There’s a lot of talent there,” Sheppard said the morning afterward. “I’d say I only had him maybe 90 percent ready. Once we start cranking down on him, well, that should be interesting to see.”

PHOENIX – Page Springs, unbeaten and untested in five career starts, looks to continue her domination as she leads a field of 12 Arizona-bred 2-year-old fillies in the $35,000 fillies division of the Arizona Breeders Futurity Saturday at Turf Paradise. About an hour later, A Political Time tries to cement his status atop the 2-year-old Arizona-bred male class as he leads a field of 12 in the $35,000 male division of the Arizona Breeders Futurity. Each event is at six furlongs on the main track.

Hayley’s Halo has dominated New Mexico’s filly and mare division all year long, with five stakes wins since February. She will attempt to continue her reign Saturday, when she faces eight others, including Southern California invader Chalula One, in the $55,000 Zia Park Distaff.

The field for the six-furlong race for fillies and mares also includes Queen Greeley, the winner of the $40,000 Columbine this past summer at Arapahoe Park.

Ravalo held on gamely under jockey Jeffrey Sanchez to prevail by a neck over Immortal Eyes in the $200,000 Six Bits at Penn National Wednesday evening. The Six Bits was one of four stakes on the card.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Bill Mott won the Breeders’ Cup Classic with Drosselmeyer, who was considered the lesser regarded of the two horses the Hall of Fame trainer ran in that race three weeks ago at Churchill Downs.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Jersey Town, who upset last year’s Cigar Mile at odds of 34-1, was not entered in Saturday’s renewal and instead will be pointed to 2012 campaign.

Trainer Barclay Tagg said that Jersey Town had a hard race when he finished sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, and with some inclement weather afterward, Jersey Town was not able to train as he would have liked.

Tagg said that he would ship Jersey Town to south Florida next week and most likely point him to the Gulfstream Park Sprint, a seven-furlong race on Feb. 18.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Mott and trainer Christophe Clement usually square off against each other in graded turf stakes. Saturday, they’re opponents while playing for the same team in the Grade 2, $200,000 Demoiselle Stakes.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - When To Honor and Serve won last year’s Remsen, he was 3-5 against just four opponents. This year’s Remsen is an entirely different race, with a 10-horse field and no heavy favorite.

OZONE PARK, N.Y.  - Awesome Feather, the undefeated 2-year-old filly champion of 2010, steps back into graded stakes competition Saturday when she heads a field of 10 entered in the Grade 1, $250,000 Gazelle Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. Carded as the ninth of 10 races on Saturday’s card, the Gazelle is the last Grade 1 race of the year to be run on this circuit.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – East Coast trainer Graham Motion is picking off Grade 1 races in California at such a high rate it might be time to shut the borders.

Motion shipped four horses west the past year, winning three Grade 1 races in California while racking up career-best totals coast to coast – $8.1 million in earnings, a Kentucky Derby victory, and 18 graded stakes. Too bad for Motion that 2011 is coming to an end.

“It’s kind of intimidating to have to start over again in about a month,” Motion said this week from his base in Maryland.