This was the reported activity on Friday for the horses entered in Saturday’s $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Arthur’s Ride

Trainer: Bill Mott

Jockey: Junior Alvarado

Set: 5:30 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: Galloped 1 1/4 miles under exercise rider Damian Hinds

Planned activity: Will walk shedrow under tack Saturday morning.

Mott: “He doesn’t need the lead. Sometimes, he needs a target. Let’s put it this way: I think he can be equally as good either way. Running in the (Sept. 1) Jockey Club Gold Cup (fifth-place finish after winning the Whitney) was what I wanted to do. I wanted to have enough time between the Jockey Club and this race. I could have run in the Woodward (Sept. 28 at Aqueduct) but then I would have only had four weeks. We ran in the Jockey Club because we were at Saratoga, and I love running at Saratoga. That was the race I wanted to run it. We had the Jockey Club in mind before the Whitney.”

City of Troy

Trainer: Aidan O’Brien

Jockey: Ryan Moore

Set: 6 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: Easy jog and gallop around Del Mar’s dirt track in company with Luxembourg, Henri Matisse, Wingspan and Donnacha O’Brien-trained Porta Fortuna.

Derma Sotogake

Trainer: Hidetaka Otonashi

Jockey: Christophe Lemaire

Set: 6 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: He did a light work on the main track.

Fierceness

Trainer: Todd Pletcher

Jockey: John Velazquez

Morning activity: Galloped approximately a mile.

Planned activity: Scheduled to be hand walked.

Pletcher, on his key to success: “An alert beginning. Just get into the first turn in a good position.”

Forever Young

Trainer: Yoshito Yahagi

Jockey: Ryusei Sakai

Set: 5:30 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: He did an easy exercise on the main track.

Yahagi: “All went as we planned. Nothing worries me.”

Highland Falls

Trainer: Brad Cox

Jockey: Luis Saez

Morning activity: Galloped with Katie Tolbert.

Planned activity: Will walk.

Mixto

Trainer: Doug O’Neill

Jockey: Kyle Frey

Set: 6 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: Jogged one mile with Tony Romero up.

Planned activity: Will not go to the track Saturday morning.

O’Neill: “I would like to see him have a good clean break and get a similar trip to what he had when he won the Pacific Classic here.”

Newgate

Trainer: Bob Baffert

Jockey: Frankie Dettori

Set: 5:30 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: Galloped 1 1/4 miles under exercise rider Humberto Gomez.

Planned activity: Will walk the shedrow Saturday morning.

Baffert: “He doesn’t like being on the inside, but he doesn’t have to worry about that because he is pretty far outside (13 post). I talked to Frankie about it. He will put him in a spot where he feels comfortable, and that is all you can do.”

Next

Trainer: Doug Cowans

Jockey: Luan Machado

Morning activity: Galloped.

Planned activity: Will walk.

Doug Cowans, on jockey Luan Machado and how he has been an integral part of the team: “The rider situation started early on. When we made the decision that Next was going to go to Delaware (for the 2022 Cape Henlopen Stakes) and Luan was going to ride the horse, he started breezing the horse in the morning. One of the things that we talked about early on was trying to get the horse to relax a little bit, because we thought he’d be on the lead in most of those races, and we thought he’d go right to the lead. We wanted to make sure we kind of taught him to settle a little bit because we felt like he had enough stamina. And once he started riding the horse, he really got along well with him, and rest is history.”

Pyrenees

Trainer: Cherie DeVaux

Jockey: Brian Hernandez Jr.

Morning activity: Galloped in usual routine.

Planned activity: Walk the shedrow.

Enrique Miranda, exercise rider and assistant to DeVaux: “He’ll walk tomorrow and he’s done all the hard work now, so he’s ready to go. He’ll walk in the morning, settle, have some breakfast, and wait for showtime.”

Rattle N Roll

Trainer: Kenny McPeek

Jockey: Jose Ortiz

Set: 5:45 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: Galloped 1 1/2 miles under exercise rider Danny Ramsey.

Planned activity: TBA.

Ramsey: “We don’t know what we are going to do with him if he doesn’t get in. We would probably gallop him in the (Saturday) morning.”

Senor Buscador

Trainer: Todd Fincher

Jockey: Joel Rosario

Set: 6:20 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: Jogged under Dennis Means.

Planned activity: Jog in the morning.

Fincher: “I’d love to see him get a clean trip with lots of pace in front of him.” — Todd Fincher

Sierra Leone

Trainer: Chad Brown

Jockey: Flavien Prat

Morning activity: Galloped an easy circuit of the Del Mar dirt.

Set: 6 a.m. PDT

Planned activity: Racing on Saturday.

Brown: “All good.”

Tapit Trice

Trainer: Todd Pletcher

Jockey: Irad Ortiz Jr.

Morning activity: Galloped approximately one mile.

Planned activity: Scheduled to be hand walked.

Pletcher, on his key to success: “An alert beginning. Just get into the first turn in a good position. He won’t be as speedy as Fierceness but hopefully is able to tuck over and get into a good stalking position and hopefully save a little ground in the first turn.”

Ushba Tesoro

Trainer: Noburu Takagi

Jockey: Yuga Kawada

Set: 6 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: He did a light work on the main track.

Takagi: “We trained him as we do in Japan. I believe he is in good form.”

Distaff

This was the reported activity on Friday for the horses entered in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff.

Alice Verite

Trainer: Kazuya Nakatake

Jockey: Kyle Frey

Set: 5:45 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: She did a light exercise on the main track.

Nakatake: “I am excited because she moves so well on the dirt track.”

Awesome Result

Trainer: Yasutoshi Ikee

Jockey: Yutaka Take

Set: 6 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: She had a light work on the main track.

Ikee: “She occasionally misses the jump from the stall so outside draw is ideal. She handles wet track well, but it is unlikely to get that much of rain.”

Candied

Trainer: Todd Pletcher

Jockey: Irad Ortiz Jr.

Morning activity: Galloped approximately one mile.

Planned activity: Scheduled to be hand walked.

Pletcher: What is a key to success for her?: “Springing from the rail, hopefully she gets away cleanly and can get into a position where she can have some options to stay inside or put her out in the clear. I would imagine she would be in a stalking-type position.”

Che Evasora

Trainer: Phil D’Amato

Jockey: Tiago Pereira

Set: 5:20 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: Galloped one mile on main track.

Planned activity: May go to the track Saturday morning.

D’Amato: “I hope she gets a clean break and then just sits back and closes with one big run.”

Honor D Lady

Trainer: Saffie Joseph Jr.

Jockey: Irad Ortiz Jr.

Morning activity: Tack walked for about an hour.

Planned activity: Walk again tomorrow.

Peter Leiva, assistant to Saffie Joseph Jr.: “All is good. We’ll do the same thing tomorrow. All the horses are doing perfect.”

Raging Sea

Trainer: Chad Brown

Jockey: Flavien Prat

Set: 5:30 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: Galloped an easy circuit of the Del Mar dirt.

Planned activity: Racing on Saturday.

Brown: “All good.”

Sugar Fish

Trainer: Jeff Mullins

Jockey: Tyler Baze

Set: 4:45 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: Galloped 1 1/2 miles under Amy Mullins.

Planned activity: Go to the track Saturday morning.

Mullins: “The ideal scenario for her will be more speed in the race.”

Thorpedo Anna

Trainer: Kenny McPeek

Jockey: Brian Hernandez Jr.

Set: 5 a.m. PDT

Morning activity: Galloped 1 1/2 miles under exercise rider Danny Ramsey.

Planned activity: Will walk the shedrow Saturday morning.

Hernandez, on what it’s like riding Thorpedo Anna: “It’s hard to describe. She is so dominant and so powerful in what she does. She just has this presence about her where she seems to know how good she is and she wants to go out there and show it. She is almost like a warrior princess. She gets cranked up in the post parade and, once the gates open, she leaves there and gets in her natural rhythm and she’ll jump when I need her to. We are going into this worrying more about how our filly is doing than worry about who we are facing.”