ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Seven horses shipped south from Woodbine for the Breeders’ Cup.

And while all of their connections were happy to have been part of the show, the man who had the most to cheer about was trainer Mark Casse, who sent out Delightful Mary for a third-place finish in Friday’s Juvenile Fillies.

“It was a very good weekend – it was almost great,” said Casse, who trains Delightful Mary for owner John Oxley. “I was very proud of her.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Molinaro Warrior is coming off a much-improved effort under hot jockey Luis Contreras and should be prominent as the favorite in Thursday’s opener, a five-furlong, first-level allowance for Ontario-sired runners.

Molinaro Warrior had a productive spring for trainer Ross Armata, during which he won his maiden over six furlongs following three straight top-three placings in Ontario-sired maiden special company. His first try against winners July 16 resulted in a commendable second in a $40,000 claimer, behind the upwardly mobile Riding the River.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Robert Anderson, a longtime owner and breeder and a member of the Woodbine Entertainment Group’s board of directors, is dead at age 64.

Anderson suffered a massive heart attack in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Nov. 3 and died in hospital on Sunday.

Based in his hometown of St. Thomas, Ontario, Anderson was active in the breeding, selling, and racing of Thoroughbred and Standardbred racehorses both in North America and abroad for the past 40 years.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The five leading contenders for Horse of the Year were all in the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday at Churchill Downs, and though two of them finished just a head apart for the win, with Blame holding off Zenyatta in a thriller, the debate over who should be Horse of the Year seems certain to last at least another two months, right through the Eclipse Awards on Jan. 17 in Miami Beach, Fla.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The pick six went unhit on both Saturday and Sunday at Aqueduct, resulting in a pick-six carryover of $61,826 entering Wednesday’s card.

Wednesday’s sequence looks challenging with three of the six races scheduled for the turf. After a combination of sleet, rain, and cold on Monday, the weather was expected to improve beginning Tuesday and dry conditions should prevail on Wednesday.

Here’s a look at the pick six sequence:

Following Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Marathon at Churchill Downs, in which Prince Will I Am was disqualified from second and placed 10th for interference, owner Susie Atkins of Casa Farms would have a right to feel disgusted.

Losing $90,000 in earnings, the purse differential between second and 10th-place, she could feel anger toward her jockey, Javier Castellano, who the stewards suspended six days for careless riding aboard Prince Will I Am. Or she could feel dismay toward the stewards for the disqualification.

Workforce, the heavy morning-line favorite who was scratched from the Breeders’ Cup Turf because of course conditions, will return to race next year at age 4, his connections announced Monday.

Workforce scored victories in the Epsom Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in 2010, and came to Churchill the hot BC Turf favorite off his Arc win. But after training daily on the Churchill turf from Tuesday through Friday, Workforce was pulled from the race Saturday morning because his connections did not want to race over grass they considered too firm for their horse.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Champ Pegasus, runner-up in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Turf, will be pointed to the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting and is unlikely to start again this year, trainer Richard Mandella said.

There was some consideration between Mandella and owner B. Wayne Hughes about sending Champ Pegasus to the Japan Cup on Nov. 28, but Mandella said that various factors, notably the relatively quick turnaround and a trans-Pacific journey, made that impractical.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Blind Luck, second in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic at Churchill Downs on Friday, may start again this year, in the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita in late December, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Bret Calhoun had his name all over the 2010 Breeders’ Cup at Churchill Downs – and his initials, too. Much of the tack and equipment used by Calhoun and his employees are monogrammed with a blue “BC” on white backgrounds, which seems quite fitting for what the 46-year-old trainer accomplished here last weekend.