ARCADIA, Calif. – For a few moments in deep stretch of Saturday’s Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita, the 4-year-old gelding United looked poised for a massive upset.

United rallied from fourth to take a narrow lead with a furlong remaining, but could not hold off the late kick of Bricks and Mortar, the leading candidate for the title of 2019 Horse of the Year. Bricks and Mortar was the even-money favorite. United was the 51-1 longest shot in a field of 12.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The mare and filly who finished one-two Saturday in the Grade 1, $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile, Uni and Got Stormy, could meet again in 2020.

After Uni had won the mile with a scintillating finish, Sol Kumin, part of Uni’s ownership group, said the 5-year-old mare would campaign again next season. And on Sunday morning, Got Stormy was taken out of a horse auction this week in Kentucky to focus on the continuation of her racing career for owner Gary Barber and trainer Mark Casse.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Iridessa, the 13-1 upset winner of Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita, was scheduled to return to Ireland on Monday but is expected to race in 2020 with a possible year-end target being the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Keeneland.

Bill Dwan, racing manager for owner Mrs. CC Regalado-Gonzalez, said Iridessa would get a break during which time he, Regalado-Gonzalez, and trainer Joseph O’Brien would formulate a plan for 2020.

British Idiom, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, will not race again this year and will winter at Fair Grounds, runner-up Donna Veloce won’t race until January, but third-place finisher Bast could race next month in the Starlet at Los Alamitos, their trainers reported Sunday morning.

British Idiom locked up a divisional Eclipse Award with her victory on Friday. She was on a plane in the wee hours early Saturday morning to Churchill Downs, but soon will relocate to Fair Grounds, trainer Brad Cox said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Omaha Beach, runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Saturday, will be pointed to the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita, the first of two starts he could make before he is scheduled to begin stud duty next year, trainer Richard Mandella said Sunday morning at Santa Anita.

The Malibu is at seven furlongs on Santa Anita’s opening day, Dec. 26. He has sprinted twice previously, and has won both times. On Saturday, Omaha Beach finished 2 3/4 lengths behind Spun to Run, who led the Dirt Mile from start to finish.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Chad Brown’s reward for winning three Breeders’ Cup races at Santa Anita was a red-eye flight to New York where he trained horses at Belmont Park Sunday morning and made the eight-mile drive to Aqueduct to saddle Autonomous, a 2-year-old filly, in the opener. Naturally, Autonomous won.

On the drive, Brown, sounding a little sick, reflected on his sensational Breeders’ Cup success where he won three races from eight runners and may very well have left California with a bona fide Horse of the Year.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Peter Miller had a sore throat Sunday morning, mostly the result of all the screaming he did during the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint the previous afternoon at Santa Anita.

“I’m great otherwise,” Miller said by phone from his home in Encinitas.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Covfefe emerged from her victory in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint in good shape and was scheduled to be back in her stall at Churchill Downs in Kentucky sometime around noon Eastern following an equine charter flight early Sunday, according to Brad Cox, who trains the 3-year-old filly for LNJ Foxwoods.

“She came out of it great,” Cox said early Sunday. “We loaded her this morning at 2 a.m. (Pacific). She’s on her way home.”

ARCADIA, Calif. - An outstanding weekend of racing came to a tragic end early Saturday evening at Santa Anita when Mongolian Groom suffered a catastrophic injury to his left hind leg during the running of the Breeders’ Cup Classic and was subsequently euthanized.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Though he was near the top of the national leaderboard in both wins and purse money won for the year, jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. – the reigning Eclipse Award winning jockey – felt his business had slowed down this fall.

At the Belmont Park fall meet – one that he led all riders in wins for five consecutive years – Ortiz won just 20 races, ninth in the standings. While his upper tier business was solid, his day-to-day business was not.