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.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The decision by the owners of Unrivaled Belle to bring the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic winner back for a 5-year-old campaign is only part of the reason trainer Bill Mott probably can’t wait for 2011.

Goldikova, the only horse to win three Breeders’ Cup races, will return to race in 2011, trainer Freddie Head confirmed Monday, saying that if all goes well her season will end with a fourth start in the Breeders’ Cup Mile.

“Absolutely she will race again,” Head said. “She took her race very well.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Mike DePaulo had two of the better nominees for Wednesday’s $125,000 South Ocean Stakes, Bubbles to the Top and Zee Beauty, but he is running only Zee Beauty in the 1 1/16-mile event for Ontario-sired 2-year-old fillies.

Zee Beauty rallied for fourth when she debuted Aug. 6, and then finished second six weeks later in a slow six-furlong event. Most recently Oct. 16, she showed more speed than usual in a 6 1/2-furlong maiden special for Ontario-sired fillies, and won by four lengths in a time that earned her a Beyer Speed Figure of 60.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Dryfly was so highly regarded that he was listed as a separate wagering interest in Pool 1of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager in mid-February, closing at 46-1. Unfortunately for his connections and fans, that would be the extent of his Derby possibilities, as Dryfly exited the Feb. 20 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park with a knee chip requiring surgery.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Zenyatta finished second in her final career start Saturday in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, but she remained first in the hearts of her adoring fans here Sunday morning at Churchill Downs, literally stopping traffic on a public road adjacent to the barn area when motorists realized she was out grazing.

The scene brought a smile to the face of Zenyatta’s trainer, John Shirreffs, who has allowed unusual access to the mare, both on the road, when Zenyatta raced both here and at Oaklawn Park, and at Zenyatta’s home base at Hollywood Park.

Dakota Phone’s $77.40 upset in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile made him the 14th Breeders’ Cup winner to also race in Northern California.

Wild Again, who won the inaugural Classic in 1984, ran third in a turf race at Bay Meadows in his final start before his Breeders’ Cup upset. Princess Rooney, the 1984 Distaff winner, might have been the first Breeders’ Cup winner to race in Northern California, but she cut her head getting off a van upon her arrival at Golden Gate Fields for a race and had to be scratched.