Horse Racing News by Marcus Hersh

Thanks in great part to a heady ride by Garrett Gomez, who scored his third victory of the day, More Than Real won the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf by about two lengths over heavily favored Winter Memories.

A decision on Workforce's participation in the Breeders' Cup Turf won't be made until Saturday, trainer Michael Stoute said after sending Workforce out for easy exercise Friday morning at Churchill Downs.

Midday will be strongly favored to succeed where Ouija Board failed by winning the Filly and Mare Turf for the second year in a row.

She won the 2009 Breeders' Cup Mile from post 10, and Goldikova will be asked to overcome another wide draw, post 10, in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Mile on Saturday at Churchill Downs.

Workforce drew post 6 and was installed as the 7-5 morning-line favorite for the $3 million Breeders' Cup Turf. The question for coming days is whether Workforce will actually contest the race or scratch and go home.

The way you could tell Zenyatta was getting close to the Churchill Downs backstretch was by the helicopter following her convoy from the airport.

Typically, the trainer of a horse must talk an owner out of aiming too high. But in the case of The Usual Q. T., it was up to trainer Jim Cassidy to plead the case for the BC Mile to the partnership that owns the West Coast's most proven grass miler.

Gio Ponti will be cross-entered in both the Breeders' Cup Classic and the Breeders' Cup Mile when Breeders' Cup pre-entries are taken on Monday, according to a manager at the Castleton-Lyons Farm of Gio Ponti's owner, Shane Ryan.

Air jackets appear to have been developed during the 1990s in Japan, and a Japanese company called Hit Air retains prominence in the marketplace.

Gone, and mostly forgotten. That has been the story of Courageous Cat's 2010 campaign, but Courageous Cat might remind people just how good he can be when he returns to action Saturday in the Shadwell Turf Mile at Keeneland.