LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Chris Block declined to bring unbeaten Vacare from Chicago for the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf, but it's not as if the 17-year veteran trainer has an aversion to Churchill Downs. Four days after the 23rd Breeders' Cup World Championships were run here, Block will have put Reverential on a six-hour van ride from Hawthorne to Churchill in plenty of time for the colt to figure among the logical players in the Wednesday feature, a $52,500 turf allowance.

CYPRESS, Calif. - Jess You and I remained unbeaten in four starts after winning his stakes debut in Saturday's $1,223,800 Golden State Million Futurity for Quarter Horses at Los Alamitos.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Bill Morey Jr. and Humberto Ascanio were replaying Sunday's running of the Bay Meadows Derby as they toasted each other after Proudinsky's solid victory over Bold Chieftain.

Morey, who bred and trains Bold Chieftain, was just as proud of his second-place finish as Ascanio, Bobby Frankel's assistant in Southern California, was of Proudinsky's first U.S. victory.

It wasn't the first time a Frankel-trained horse had defeated a Morey-trained horse. In the 2001 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker, the Frankel-trained Euchre defeated the Morey-trained Dixie Dot Com.

Making official what had been telegraphed for weeks, Darley Stud on Monday announced that Bernardini has been retired following the Breeders' Cup Classic and will enter stud duty this spring at Darley's Lexington, Ky., farm.

Bernardini finished second in the Breeders' Cup Classic, completing a year, and a career, in which he won 6 times in 8 starts. His victories include the Preakness Stakes, Travers Stakes, and the Jockey Club Gold Cup. He is the front-runner to be named the Eclipse Award-winning 3-year-old.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - As he watched Pine Island on the track moments before the start of Saturday's Breeders' Cup Distaff at Churchill Downs, trainer Shug McGaughey couldn't help but feel good about his filly's chances in the race.

"I watched her warm up on that Jumbotron," McGaughey said Monday morning outside his Belmont Park barn. "I thought 'God almighty, look how good she's warming up.' "

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Leonnatus Anteas is known as "Big Red" around trainer Kevin Attard's barn, and he certainly became more worthy of that moniker after his championship performance in Sunday's $294,765 Coronation Futurity.

Leonnatus Anteas defeated a

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - After frequently watering its new synthetic surface on Friday and Saturday, Hollywood Park stopped watering the surface on Sunday in response to complaints from horsemen.

The track was watered several times on Saturday afternoon between races, and some trainers said that made the track too firm. The complaints continued during training on Sunday morning, when management announced it would stop watering the track.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The durable Quemar does not go too long between starts.

Since arriving from New Zealand in May, Quemar has made nine starts, winning once and finishing second or third five times.

A 4-year-old filly, Quemar is coming off her best performance during that span, a third-place finish in the Grade 2 Las Palmas Handicap at the Oak Tree at Santa Anita meeting when she finished a half-length behind favored Beautyandthebeast.

Invasor, owned by Sheikh Hamdan al-Maktoum's Shadwell Stable, likely clinched Horse of the Year and champion older horse by defeating his main rivals for both of those awards, Bernardini and Lava Man, respectively, in the Classic. He got a Beyer Speed Figure of 116.

Bernardini, owned by Sheikh Hamdan's brother Sheikh Mohammed, will be the front-runner for champion 3-year-old, based on a year that saw him win the Preakness, Travers, and Jockey Club Gold Cup before finishing a close second to the older Invasor in the Classic.

Of the eight Breeders' Cup winners on Saturday, seven are expected to race again next year.

Invasor, who won the Classic, is already at the Palm Meadows training facility in Florida, where he will prepare for a 5-year-old campaign. His first goal will be the Dubai World Cup, according to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin.

Also wintering in Florida will be Dreaming of Anna, the Juvenile Fillies winner, and Street Sense, the runaway winner of the Juvenile. Like Invasor, they will be at Palm Meadows. Neither will race again this year.