INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Zenyatta had a quiet morning at Hollywood Park on Monday, a contrast to the commotion that awaits her presence at Churchill Downs later this week in the build-up to Saturday’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic.

The unbeaten 6-year-old mare jogged a leisurely mile on the backstretch training track at Hollywood Park on Monday morning and virtually had the track to herself. She was ridden by regular exercise rider Steve Willard and accompanied by a pony throughout the two-circuit exercise.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Bear’s Peak had quite a coming-out party in the Oct. 11 Bull Page Stakes, which he won as a maiden while collecting a cool $75,000. He will move out from six to seven furlongs Wednesday at Woodbine in the $125,000 Frost King Stakes, and should be favored under Patrick Husbands.

Bear’s Peak, a handsome chestnut trained by Reade Baker, missed the break in his debut Sept. 6, and then rallied five-wide to finish just a length back in fifth, before galloping out strongly.

With the San Francisco Giants playing the Texas Rangers, Northern California has been the epicenter for baseball’s biggest event, the World Series. Golden Gate Fields is hoping to carry over that sporting enthusiasm this week for the track’s simulcast of the Breeders’ Cup, which is being held at Churchill Downs on Friday and Saturday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Bob Tiller just missed sweeping the two stakes here last Sunday, sending out Indian Apple Is to score by a half-length in the Ontario Fashion after watching Woodbourne suffer a head defeat as the runner-up in the Labeeb.

Indian Apple Is, a 4-year-old homebred who races for Frank Di Giulio, was shortening up for the $185,000 Ontario Fashion after winning and placing in two stakes starts over seven furlongs.

“Our only concern was the six furlongs,” Tiller said. “We didn’t think it was quite far enough for her.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – As visually impressive as some of the 2-year-old winners were Sunday at Churchill Downs, where a “Stars of Tomorrow” program opened the 21-day fall meet, their Beyer Speed Figures don’t exactly match. The easy winner of the Grade 2 Pocahontas, Dancinginherdreams, earned an 84, while perhaps the most impressive of six maiden winners, Hailey d’Oro, got just a 67 when dominating her opposition.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Carl Bowman has run one horse in the Breeders’ Cup, a millionaire mare named Lu Ravi who was fifth in the 2000 Distaff (now Ladies’ Classic) at Churchill Downs. Bowman doesn’t have anything to run this weekend in the Breeders’ Cup, but he will start the week with something to remind himself of that rare opportunity a decade ago.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Another series of important Breeders' Cup workouts took place both on the main track and turf course following the renovation break Monday morning at Churchill Downs.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Blame, among the favorites for the Classic, topped a group of four Breeder's Cup starters to work before the renovation break at a chilly Churchill Downs on Monday.

Blame, with jockey Garrett Gomez aboard, went an easy half mile in 49.72 seconds before galloping out five-eighths in 1:03.56. He was followed, in order, by Thiskyhasnolimit (Dirt Mile), a half in 48.66; Warrior's Reward (Sprint), four furlongs in 49.02; and Riley Tucker (Sprint), four furlongs in 49.51.

Glory Be Mine came into the $2 million New Mexico Cup card at Zia Park riding a significant win streak, and it remained intact Sunday when she won her seventh straight race in the $151,575 Fillies. The race was one of 11 stakes on the card, with seven of them for Thoroughbreds and four for Quarter Horses. All of the stakes were restricted to horses bred in New Mexico, with the mixed-breed, statebred championship program being the richest of its kind in North America.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Briecat’s upset win in the $150,000 Las Palmas Handicap at Hollywood Park on Sunday equaled the most prestigious win of her career, but it meant more to trainer Vladimir Cerin.

The Grade 2 Las Palmas was Briecat’s first graded stakes win since the Grade 2 Bayakoa Handicap at Hollywood Park in 2008.

“The Bayakoa, I expected her to win, but this was a quality field,” Cerin said.