MIAMI – The Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile is now under consideration for Bodexpress following his near record-setting performance in Saturday’s allowance feature at Gulfstream Park West.

Bodexpress led throughout while cruising to a one-sided 11 1/4-length tally as the 2-5 favorite here Saturday, his final time of 1:42.53 just .01 slower than Mr. Jordan’s 1 1/16-mile course record set nearly two years earlier. Bodexpress would have likely broken the mark had jockey Emisael Jaramillo not eased up on him some through the final 40 yards with the outcome no longer in doubt.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Jockey Rafael Hernandez recorded his first Grade 1 stakes victory on Etoile in Sunday’s $630,000 E.P. Taylor, giving him a meet-leading 12 stakes wins.

When the smoke cleared after Sunday’s excellent 11-race card, Justin Stein led the rider standings by a 103-102 count over Hernandez. Stein, who won the Grade 2 Nearctic on Silent Poet, is scheduled to serve a three-day suspension from Oct. 30-Nov. 1, which could be appealed.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – By sending out three winners Sunday, Brad Cox assumed the lead atop the Keeneland trainer standings in what might well be a down-to-the-wire battle with Mike Maker.

Cox leads 11-10 into the final week. He has entries in seven races through Friday, while Maker has eight entries (in six races) during that same span. Entries for Saturday, closing day, will be drawn Wednesday. Churchill Downs starts its fall meet Sunday.

Among jockeys, Tyler Gaffalione starts the week with an 18-12 lead over Florent Geroux.

Rematch in Mrs. Revere

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Trainer Dale Romans has been poring over the Churchill condition book for a race for Dennis’ Moment, the star-crossed colt who went to the sidelines following a last-place finish in the Feb. 29 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park. Dennis’ Moment breezed five furlongs Saturday in 1:00.20 in his fourth work on the comeback trail.

“We basically started all over with him,” Romans said. “He’s back with the right attitude. Wherever we run him, he’s going to run big.”

LEXINGTON, Ky. – With the stakes schedule already exhausted, allowances will serve as the daily features for the final four-day stretch of the 17-day Keeneland fall meet.

Starting the week are a pair of filly and mare allowances serving as co-features of an eight-race Wednesday card that begins at the usual 1:05 p.m. Eastern.

Race 6 is a $73,000, second-level turf route in which Pass the Plate (post 2, Julien Leparoux) takes a rare drop out of stakes company as the likely favorite for Silverton Hill and trainer Paul McGee.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Ian Wilkes has been in racing long enough to know its ups and downs. The 55-year-old native of Australia has experienced the pinnacle of the sport, having won the Breeders’ Cup Classic in 2012 with Fort Larned, so he’s accepting a recent slump for what it is – one of the inevitable cycles a tenured trainer must endure.

“When things go good, they’re good,” Wilkes said. “And when they’re not, well, that’s the way it goes. We all go through it.”

Trainers Carla Gaines and Adam Kitchingman have been fined $500 for recent medication violations and jockeys Eswan Flores and Mario Gutierrez received lesser financial penalties for whip violations, according to rulings published over the weekend by Santa Anita stewards.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Get Her Number, the winner of the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 26, will miss the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Keeneland on Nov. 6 because of a minor injury, trainer Peter Miller said Sunday.

“He’s got a little bit of bone bruising and we’ll back off on him,” Miller said. “He won’t run again until next year.”

ELMONT, N.Y. - Following his sensational season debut Saturday at Belmont, Performer will be pointed to the Grade 1, $250,000 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct on Dec. 5, trainer Shug McGaughey said Sunday.

Performer, his 4-year-old debut delayed by an ankle injury, won a one-mile allowance race by 1 3/4 lengths under mostly a hand ride from Joel Rosario.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Though a final decision will come closer to entry time, trainer Bill Mott said Sunday he is leaning toward running the 3-year-old filly Frank’s Rockette in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint versus males as opposed to the $1 million Filly and Mare Sprint.

Both races are to be run Nov. 7 at Keeneland.

“Without looking at the horses, I’m leaning more towards the Sprint,” Mott said. “The distance would have a lot to do with it.”