ARCADIA, Calif. – Thursday was a relatively quiet morning on the Breeders’ Cup front at Santa Anita, with only two potential starters turning in official works. But that will change quickly with at least a dozen or so Breeders’ Cup workers on the schedule here Friday and plenty more to follow throughout the remainder of the weekend.

The weather in Southern California remains picture-perfect – sunny, with temperatures in the high 50s when the track opens for training at 5 a.m., but quickly rising into the low 80s by the time the last horse is off the track at 10 a.m.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Walk In Marrakesh will have Frankie Dettori aboard when she starts as a longshot in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 1, new trainer Ignacio Correas said on Thursday.

Dettori rode Walk In Marrakesh to a win in the Star Stakes at Sandown Park in England in July. 

Dettori, 48, is the regular rider of the star European filly Enable and has won a personal-best 18 Group 1 races this year, and 250 Group 1 or Grade 1 races in his career. The latest came aboard Star Catcher at Ascot, England, last Saturday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Sir Winston, the Belmont Stakes winner, breezed three furlongs in 37.20 seconds on Wednesday morning at trainer Mark Casse’s farm in Ocala, Fla. It was his first breeze since the Belmont.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Maximum Security certainly didn’t scare off the competition. The multiple Grade 1 winner – and the horse disqualified from first in the Kentucky Derby – will face seven opponents when he makes his return to the races in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Bold Ruler Handicap at Belmont Park.

One of Maximum Security’s opponents is Diamond King, trained by John Servis, brother of Jason Servis, trainer of Maximum Security.

“I was pointing to the Bold Ruler way before he was, so it’s no respect for me,” John Servis quipped.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bricks and Mortar, the leading turf horse in the United States, is unlikely to face a leading rival when he starts at 1 1/2 miles for the first time in the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita.

Wednesday, Breeders’ Cup officials announced that 14 horses have been pre-entered for the BC Turf, the richest grass race in the United States. Bricks and Mortar also was pre-entered in the BC Mile, but trainer Chad Brown has said in recent weeks that the BC Turf is a primary goal.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Another gorgeous morning Wednesday at Santa Anita, where Omaha Beach was the marquee name on a work tab that included four other potential Breeders’ Cup starters.

Sistercharlie’s bid to become the first repeat winner of the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf won’t be so easy after all.

Magical, who came within three-quarters of a length of Enable in last year’s $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf, will this year contest the Filly and Mare Turf, trainer Aidan O’Brien told reporters in Europe on Tuesday. While O’Brien pre-entered Magical in both the Turf and Filly and Mare Turf – and listed the Turf as first preference – he said she would run against females. O’Brien plans to run English Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck in the Turf.

Let’s hear it for the ladies in the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Mile.

Got Stormy, a 4-year-old filly, and Uni, a 5-year-old mare, are the two most exciting prospects for the $2 million Mile, which drew an overflow group of pre-entries this week.

There were few surprises when pre-entries were announced Wednesday for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint, considered one of the most competitive and anticipated races on the Nov. 2 Breeders’ Cup program.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The only undefeated stakes winner pre-entered for the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Nov. 1 at Santa Anita is a filly yet to start at the race distance of a mile.

Alms, trained by Mike Stidham, has won both of her starts, both at six furlongs on turf at Belmont Park – a maiden special weight race on Sept. 19 and the Grade 3 Matron Stakes on Oct. 5. In both races, Alms rallied wide from off the pace to win by at least a length.