ARCADIA, Calif. - Favorites dominated Santa Anita's 20-cent Rainbow pick six, which paid $601 to 10,466 ticketholders on Sunday when a mandatory payout led to widespread interest.

The program began with a 21-day carryover of $1,143,194 in the Rainbow portion of the bet, which is paid only if there is a single winning ticket, or on a day with a mandatory payout. Bettors added $6,745,114 to the pool Sunday, the final day of the track’s autumn season.
Track officials had projected earlier in the week that the pool would exceed $6 million.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Storm the Hill’s affinity for Santa Anita’s turf course may keep the 4-year-old filly from racing until early January.

Storm the Hill won her third stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday in the Grade 3 Sen. Ken Maddy Stakes on the hillside turf course. By Get Stormy, Storm the Hill has won 5 of 23 starts and earned $338,735, with all the wins coming in seven starts on turf at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Bellafina was in season when she finished fourth as the 9-5 favorite in Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Churchill Downs, trainer Simon Callaghan said Sunday.

Bellafina, the winner of three consecutive graded stakes at Del Mar and Santa Anita in August and September, was shipped back to Callaghan’s stable at Santa Anita on Saturday.

“She’s come out of the race fine, sound,” Callaghan said. “We did notice that she was quite in season after the race. She’s still showing that she’s in heat.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Monomoy Girl, who locked up her divisional Eclipse Award with a victory in the Breeders' Cup Distaff on Saturday, was in good order the following day as her connections discussed her goals for 2019.

Monomoy Girl won the Distaff by a length over Wow Cat, one of six Grade 1 winners in a stellar field that included the now-retired champion Abel Tasman. The morning after the race, trainer Brad Cox was still marveling at Monomoy Girl's consistency and durability during a campaign that lasted from February until November.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Expert Eye’s best race might have been his last race.

After winning the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile on Saturday, his first Group or Grade 1 win, Expert Eye was scheduled to fly back to England on Monday. No decision has been made regarding his future, but Expert Eye could be retired to stud by owner-breeder Khalid Abdullah.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Peter Miller was at the airport Sunday morning with his family awaiting a flight back to California. But the veteran horseman may not have needed a plane to get him back home, considering the high he was still on following his record-setting performance the previous afternoon at Churchill Downs at Breeders’ Cup 2018.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – John Sadler has the Pegasus World Cup in mind for Accelerate and is eager to try Catapult in the inaugural Pegasus World Cup grass race that also will be run at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 26.

Catapult was an unlucky loser of the Breeders’ Cup Mile on Saturday at Churchill Downs, getting caught in the shadow of the wire by Expert Eye and at the time making Sadler 0 for 44 in the Breeders’ Cup. Catapult returned on Sunday to California, and Sadler said he will be prepared for the Pegasus grass race.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – City of Light, the dynamic winner of the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Saturday, “came out of the race in great shape” and was scheduled to return on Monday to his home base at Santa Anita, where a plan will be decided regarding a next start, trainer Michael McCarthy said on Sunday at Churchill Downs.

City of Light is scheduled to go to Lane’s End Farm upon retirement, but when that happens, and what City of Light’s race schedule will be, is in flux.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Enable courageously ran her way into the record books Saturday at Churchill Downs, becoming the first horse to win both the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and the Breeders’ Cup Turf in the same year. Now, the question is whether Enable will be given the opportunity to make more history in 2019.

A decision on that will not be made in the short term, according to Teddy Grimthorpe, the racing manager for Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, which bred and owns the superstar 4-year-old filly. Grimthorpe did say that Enable would certainly not run again in 2018.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – John Sadler, winless in 44 Breeders’ Cup starts entering the Classic on Saturday, understood why he was the focal point in the immediate aftermath of Accelerate’s victory, but by Sunday morning, he very much wanted the emphasis to be on Accelerate and what he had accomplished in 2018.