ELMONT, N.Y. – Over the last three weekends, trainer Chad Brown has won seven graded stakes, run first and second in four of them, and has seen his potential roster for the Breeders’ Cup on Nov. 5-6 at Del Mar increase significantly.

C Z Rocket, one of California’s top sprinters for more than a year, will be pre-entered for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint and Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile to be run Nov. 6 at Del Mar, trainer Peter Miller said Sunday.

C Z Rocket was second in the 2020 BC Sprint at Keeneland, and that race will be a first preference next month, Miller said.

“We’re going to consider the Dirt Mile, but it will probably be the Sprint,” Miller said.

The leading races of the upcoming weekend at Santa Anita are $100,000 stakes for statebreds at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course, which is being used sparingly this month for the first time since spring 2019.

There were three sprint races on the hillside turf course from Oct. 1-3 after track management announced in September that sprints would be run on the course at the current autumn meeting, which continues through Oct. 31.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Charmaine’s Mia, a three-time stakes winner at Santa Anita earlier this year who has lost her last three races, will start in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 6 at Del Mar, if she can gain a place in what is expected to be an oversubscribed field.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Owner-trainer Brandon Greer has called an audible with Woodbine Mile winner Town Cruise and is planning on sending the speedy 6-year-old to Del Mar for the Nov. 6 Breeders’ Cup Mile.

Right after wiring the field in the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile, a BC Win and You’re In qualifier, Greer said he wanted to put Town Cruise away for the year, but the gelding’s recent robust demeanor swayed him to change his mind. He nominated Town Cruise to Sunday’s Grade 2 Nearctic here, but said he’s heading to the BC Mile, to which he will have to be supplemented for $100,000.

ELMONT, N.Y. - While Following Sea earned a fees-paid berth into the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint by winning Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Vosburgh Stakes, trainer Todd Pletcher stopped short of committing him to that race.

Pletcher said he needs to have discussions with the principals of Spendthrift Farm, the owners of Following Sea, to see if they want to run in the Sprint. Jackie’s Warrior is expected to be the favorite for the Sprint, and Following Sea was beaten nine lengths by him in the Grade 1 H. Allen Jerkens at Saratoga on Aug. 28.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Christophe Clement said he is in no hurry to make a decision regarding a start in the Breeders’ Cup Turf for Gufo, who finished third in Saturday’s Grade 1 Joe Hirsch Stakes.

Clement was disappointed with the trip Gufo got in the Hirsch, believing that jockey Joel Rosario may have made a premature move toward the lead in the 1 1/2-mile race.

“With a better-timed ride, he would have finished second,” Clement said. “The jockey more or less agreed.”

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Chad Brown said he wanted to give it a little time before making a final decision, but Rockemperor may have earned a shot at the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf with his 2 3/4-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic at Belmont Park.

Rockemperor, who had come close in graded stakes last year but who had gone off form recently, delivered a strong effort Saturday in which he rallied from next-to-last to win the Hirsch over stablemate Serve the King.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Doug O’Neill sat in an empty grandstand at Santa Anita on Sunday morning, surveying the clear skies and surrounding scene. The morning activity was drawing to a close as two runners from his stable worked on the infield training track.

“What a beautiful day,” O’Neill said.

O’Neill could have said the same thing several times on Saturday.

In the morning, Hot Rod Charlie, the stable’s star 3-year-old, worked five furlongs in 1:01.60 in preparation for the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar on Nov. 6.

ARCADIA, Calif. - England’s Rose had a busy summer at Del Mar, winning once, with two seconds, in three starts on turf.

The success led to a win in her stakes debut in Saturday’s $78,700 Swingtime Stakes for fillies and mares at a mile on turf at Santa Anita.

The Swingtime was restricted to non-winners of a stakes worth $60,000 or more to the winner at a mile other than statebred races this year.