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.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Shamrock Rose, the 25-1 winner of the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Saturday at Churchill Downs, was scheduled to ship Sunday to Mark Casse’s training facility in Ocala, Fla., where she will stay active for the time being.

Casse said he believes Shamrock Rose is deserving of the divisional Eclipse Award for filly-mare sprinter, but he will “keep an eye on” the Grade 1 La Brea on Dec. 26 at Santa Anita “in case we need” a victory in that seven-furlong race to further bolster the filly’s candidacy.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The 20-cent Rainbow pick six will begin on Sunday at Santa Anita with a 21-day carryover of $1,143,194, which must be distributed on the final day of the autumn meeting.

With such a hefty carryover, track officials expect the pool of new money to surpass $6 million.

Saturday, the 20-cent pick six paid $1,321 to 142 ticketholders. The Rainbow pick six has had multiple winners each day during the meeting, which has caused the carryover pool to exceed seven figures.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jaywalk emerged from her emphatic victory Friday  in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Churchill Downs in good shape and is scheduled to ship Sunday to her winter base, the Palm Meadows training center in south Florida, where the Cross Traffic filly eventually will resume training in her role as the early favorite for the 145th Kentucky Oaks.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Polydream was scratched lame Friday morning from the Breeders’ Cup Mile by state veterinarians to the great consternation of five-time Breeders’ Cup winner Freddie Head.

Head insisted both publicly and to state and Breeders’ Cup veterinarians that Polydream was moving the same way she always does and that nothing was amiss with the filly, the morning-line favorite for the Mile.

“It’s a disgrace,” Head said later Friday morning. “You think I’m taking a horse to America that’s not ready to run?”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Polydream, the morning-line favorite for Saturday’s $2 million Mile, and Code of Honor, the third choice for Friday’s $2 million Juvenile, were among the key scratches out of the Breeders’ Cup races, it was announced Friday morning.

Polydream, 5-1 on the morning line, was scratched out of the Mile by the Breeders’ Cup examining veterinarians, who deemed the 3-year-old Irish-bred filly lame Friday morning.

Trainer Freddie Head disagreed with that assessment and said Polydream was fit and ready to run.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Hofburg will not push onward to the Clark Handicap in the wake of his disappointing effort in the Fayette Stakes last Saturday and will instead get time off before rejoining trainer Bill Mott at Payson Park in Florida ahead of a 4-year-old campaign.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Although Bucchero may not have needed a confidence boost earlier this fall to prepare for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint Saturday at Churchill Downs, trainer Tim Glyshaw did. Frustrated by what he considered several unlucky trips with Bucchero, he was feeling snakebit.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A little after 9:30 Thursday morning one of the best racehorses in the world, Enable, walked across the Churchill Downs main track and onto the grass course – and went squish.

Rain was falling onto the filly’s back and onto the blue coat and helmet of her rider, jockey Frankie Dettori.

Jay Privman, Daily Racing Form’s national correspondent, was announced the winner of both the 2017 Joe Hirsch Award for outstanding newspaper writing and the 2017 Bill Leggett Award for outstanding feature writing. The awards were announced at Wednesday’s annual National Thoroughbred Writers and Broadcasters dinner, during which DRF’s Midwest correspondent Marty McGee was honored with the prestigious Walter Haight Award for career excellence in turf writing.