ARCADIA, Calif. – Early November plans for Aotearoa, upset winner of the Zuma Beach Stakes for 2-year-olds on turf last Sunday, will be confirmed after a main-track workout at Santa Anita later this month.

Trainer Leonard Powell said Tuesday that Aotearoa will work on dirt at Santa Anita on the weekend of Oct. 19-20 before he and owner Paul Viskovich decide between the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf or the $200,000 Golden State Juvenile for California-breds over a mile on dirt. Both races are Nov. 1.

She’s All In will attempt to win a fourth consecutive Oklahoma Classics Distaff later this month at Remington Park and from there is scheduled to be sold at the Fasig-Tipton mixed auction in Lexington, Ky., on Nov. 4, according to trainer Donnie Von Hemel.

She’s All In went over $1 million in career earnings in her last start, when she won a Remington allowance Sept. 28. It was a prep for the Distaff, the $145,000 route for Oklahoma-bred fillies and mares Oct. 18 that She’s All In has won each season at Remington since first eligible for the race in 2010.

Three of the leading contenders for this year’s $5 million Breeders’ Classic worked at two different tracks on Tuesday morning, with Game On Dude tuning up at Santa Anita, site of the Breeders’ Cup, while Fort Larned and Will Take Charge got their work in at Churchill Downs.

Game On Dude was timed in 50.60 seconds for a half-mile, with regular work rider Martin Garcia aboard. Mike Smith has the mount in the Classic on Nov. 2. Bob Baffert, who trains Game On Dude, said he wanted an easy work this week, and that he’d “start cranking on him next week.”

LEXINGTON, Ky. – There seems to be a pattern developing here.

Last October, Chad Brown swept the twin Belmont Park turf stakes for 2-year-olds when Noble Tune won the Pilgrim Stakes and Watsdachances took the Miss Grillo. A week later, Brown was at Keeneland to send out Dayatthespa to victory in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup.

“I definitely want to stay with this horse,” Leslie Mawing said after guiding Life Is a Joy to his third straight victory in the Charlie Palmer Futurity on Saturday at the Big Fresno Fair.

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Life Is a Joy won the one-mile race for 2-year-olds as he had won his previous two races – on the lead. He won his debut Aug. 17 at Golden Gate Fields and a Sept. 8 allowance race there. Both of those races were at six furlongs.

ELMONT, N.Y. – At one point this year, it looked like Boisterous was prepared to pick up the mantle from his injured and more celebrated stablemate Point of Entry and become a force in the turf division.

After winning back-to-back graded stakes including the Grade 1 Man o’ War here in July, things went awry for Boisterous. So instead of pointing to next month’s Breeders’ Cup Turf, Boisterous will make what most likely will be his final career start in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Knickerbocker Stakes at Belmont Park.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – If not for last-to-first rallies by My Conquestadory and Emollient, favorites would have been blanked in the nine graded stakes that comprised the FallStars events on opening weekend of the Keeneland fall meet.

My Conquestadory took the Darley Alcibiades on Friday at 6-5, while Emollient was 2-1 in winning the Juddmonte Spinster on Sunday. Favorites in the other seven stakes all went down to defeat, most notably 1-2 choices Wise Dan in the Shadwell Turf Mile and Groupie Doll in the Thoroughbred Club of America.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Josie Carroll’s barn had a very productive hour and change here Sunday, winning the Grade 3, $174,400 Grey Stakes with Ami’s Holiday and, two races later, taking the Grade 3, $155,100 Durham Cup with James Street.

Ami’s Holiday, a 2-year-old colt making just his second start in the 1 1/16-mile Grey, earned his first stakes victory, while James Street, a 6-year-old horse making his 27th career start in the 1 1/8-mile Durham Cup, got his third stakes win.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The Breeders’ Cup program at Santa Anita on Nov. 2 is turning into Ladies’ Day for trainer Tom Proctor.

Proctor has the 5-year-old mare Marketing Mix as a leading domestic contender for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf that afternoon. On the same program, Proctor plans to run the 3-year-old Pontchatrain and the 4-year-old Purim’s Dancer in the Grade 3, $100,000 Sen. Ken Maddy Stakes for fillies and mares on the hillside turf course.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Mark Casse said My Conquestadory, the flashy winner of the Darley Alcibiades Stakes on the opening-day program Friday at Keeneland, will train on dirt for the first time this week as he considers the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies for the unbeaten filly.