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Trainer Mike Puype spent part of Tuesday evening watching a replay of the Grade 1 Ancient Title Stakes at Hollywood Park from Oct. 9, a race in which his horse Supreme Summit finished a fast-closing second.

Smiling Tiger is bound for the Breeders' Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs on Nov. 6 after a hard-fought win in Saturday's $250,000 Ancient Title Stakes at Hollywood Park.

The most important race of Smiling Tiger's brief career is Saturday's $250,000 Ancient Title Stakes at Hollywood Park.

A quarter-mile move that took Gayego from the back of the field to the lead in Sunday's $300,000 Ancient Title Stakes at Santa Anita was enough to assure the 4-year-old a berth in the Breeders' Cup Sprint on Nov. 7.

Cost of Freedom, claimed for $50,000 in July, moved to the head of the California sprint division and earned a berth in the Oct. 25 Breeders' Cup Sprint by upsetting Street Boss in the Grade 1, $250,000 Ancient Title Stakes.

Bordonaro, the winner of the Grade 1 Ancient Title Breeders' Cup Stakes and two other stakes this year, is expected to be supplemented to the $2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs on Nov. 4, trainer Bill Spawr said over the weekend.

Pure as Gold, who has emerged as a leading sprinter in California, is unlikely to start in the Breeders' Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs on Nov. 4.