Balletto – The Frizette winner, 5-1 third choice on the morning line for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, galloped 1 ¼ miles at Lone Star Park Friday.

“It's going to be the most difficult place to be,” trainer Tom Albertrani said, referring to the strength and balance of the field. “We're facing the best tomorrow.

“We're doing good and I'm pretty confident she's going to run her race. We just need a little racing luck.

“Sense of Style and Sweet Catomine are the two main players and we ran second to Sense of Style (in the Matron at Belmont Park). Our filly ran very well. She lost ground at the quarter pole, she had problems getting through. When she did get through and changed leads, she was gaining some ground late.”

Culinary – Jack H. Smith III Thoroughbreds' Culinary galloped 1 ¼ miles and visited the paddock before the renovation break Friday morning under exercise rider Rolando Rodriguez.

The undefeated El Amante filly will break from post five in the 13-horse Juvenile Fillies field under Carlos Marquez Jr.

Michael Stidham, who will be saddling his first Breeders' Cup starter, was asked how he would like to see the race develop for Culinary.

“I'd like to see her get some decent position and not get shoved out the backdoor to where she is not able to make up ground and get discouraged,” Stidham said. “Hopefully she can maintain a little bit of position without being rushed and get a good trip.

“Then we will just see if she is good enough. To this point, there are three or four horses that are just faster than she is. She's got to step up to see if she is good enough to run with these.”

Culture Clash – Everest Stables' Culture Clash, the 2yo who will be making the third start of her career in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, turned in her final major leg-stretching for the Friday morning when she went trackside at 7:30 and galloped a 1 3/8 miles.

The homebred daughter of Petionville was led through her exercises by her regular a.m. pilot, Jenny Jonson, as her trainer, Marcelo Polanco, looked on.

“She went good,” Jonson said.

“I'm going to school her in the paddock after the works and before the races today,” Polanco added.

Kerwin John will ride Culture Clash Saturday breaking from post No. 11.

Dance Away Capote – Trainer Graham Motion schooled the 2yo daughter of Capote in the paddock before sending her to the track for a 1 5/8-miles gallop in preparation for the Juvenile Fillies.

“She can be a bit of a handful in the paddock,'' Motion said. “My big concern is how she'll handle the paddock and how wound up she'll get on a day when there are so many people and so much activity.''

Yet, Motion takes comfort in Dance Away Capote's ability to settle down when it comes time to get serious on the track.

“She's probably mature beyond her age the way she handles training,'' he said. “She's mature mentally, if not physically. In this particular race, it's an advantage to have had two two-turn races,'' said Motion, whose filly broke her maiden by 12 lengths in the one-mile Irish Sonnet Stakes at Delaware and finished a close fourth from an outside post in the Alcibiades at Keeneland.

“It's the first time she's had a good post position,'' said Motion, noting that his filly will be inside Sweet Catomine (No. 10) and Sense of Style (No. 9), the top two fillies in the morning line, respectively.

Higher World – The daughter of Peaks and Valleys had an easy morning as she took a bath and then walked under the shedrow in Barn C3.

Although the filly is one of the longest shots in the field at 30-1 on the morning line, trainer Mark Casse has high hopes.

“I may be hunting bear with a switch,” the trainer said, “but I don't think so. From what I've seen, she can run. That last race (a victory in the Mazarine Stakes) was slow, but all the races that day were slow. I could be wrong and she could run last, but I'm expecting a good effort.”

Higher World has a crazy quilt roan coat with red, gray, black and white hairs arranged in haphazard fashion.

“She gets that from Holy Bull (sire of her dam Sarah's World),” Casse said. “I think he's going to be a great broodmare sire.”

The filly is owned by Sal and Colleen Simeone, who have a software business in New York. They have owned horses for just 14 months, and this is their first Breeders' Cup starter.

Patrick Husbands, who has been aboard in all of her races, has the mount.

Mona Lisa — Giant's Causeway finished second in the 2000 Classic for trainer Aidan O'Brien and is the sire of Mona Lisa, who he hopes will become the first European runner to win the Juvenile Fillies. Mona Lisa cantered on the dirt Friday morning under exercise rider Seamus Brady.

Coolmore boss John Magnier was on the backstretch Friday morning and admitted it was a big ask.

“With the two-year-olds (Scandinavia in the Juvenile) we're taking a shot in the dark,” he said. “The filly is just a maiden but she ran well at Ascot (Fillies Mile) and could have finished closer.”

Play With Fire – The Mark Hennig trainee, 15-1 on the morning line, galloped once around the Lone Star Park track Friday morning.

“She's doing great. She's sharp. She seems to have adjusted very well,” Hennig said.

The former Wayne Lukas assistant is trying to look at the bright side of drawing the extreme outside post in the field of 13.

“Obviously it's not ideal, but I'd rather be way outside than way in. And I've got a great jockey (Pat Day) to handle that position.”

Hennig did not plan to school Play With Fire in the paddock.

“I've never schooled her before,” he said. “It's not a problem. She handled Saratoga on opening day and that was the first time we ever ran her.”

Play With Fire won that maiden special weight by 2 ¼ lengths.

Runway Model – With exercise rider Georgia Jackson up, Runway Model galloped two miles and schooled in the paddock before the renovation break.

Trainer Bernie Flint, who is saddling his third Breeders' Cup starter, was asked how he would like to see the race unfold.

“I'd like to get a real fast pace and manage to get to the point where we can get clear somewhere down the lane,” Flint said.

Rafael Bejarano, who was aboard Runway Model for the first time when she won the Oct. 8 Alcibiades at Keeneland, has the call Saturday and will break from post four in the 13-horse field.

“The best horse won that day,” Flint said of the Alcibiades. “I know (Patrick) Biancone said his horse (Sense of Style) had trouble in the race, but so did we. Saturday, the proof will be in the pudding.

“I look for my filly to run well. I have never seen the horse that won the Alcibiades be 12-to-1 coming into the Breeders' Cup. It amazes me. The odds on her are unbelieveable. We've got the experience. We've got the best prep. I think we've got a sound horse and I think we got a great chance of winning it.”

Sense of Style – The 7-2 second choice on the morning line for the Juvenile Fillies jogged 1 ½ miles and visited the Lone Star Park paddock with trainer Patrick Biancone Friday.

“Like usual,” said assistant trainer Cyril Desplanques.

“They look great,” Desplanques said, referring to Sense of Style and Turf starter Magistretti.

Sharp Lisa – Though making only her third career start and second for trainer Doug O'Neill, the 2yo Dixieland Band filly has a solid runner-up performance in Keeneland's Alcibiades Stakes and crisp training up to Saturday's Juvenile Fillies date.

She galloped 1 ½ miles Friday under regular exercise rider Juan Martinez as her work came to an end for the race.

Her performance in the Alcibiades, which followed a 6 1/2-length maiden victory at Calder Race Course Sept. 12, earned her a ticket to the Juvenile Fillies.

She was bought by J. Paul Reddam and Suarez Racing following the maiden win and was shipped to O'Neill's Hollywood Park headquarters. O'Neill, whose wife delivered the family's second child on Tuesday, will not be at Lone Star to saddle Sharp Lisa, turning that duty over to his assistant, Leandro Mora, who is scheduled to arrive Friday afternoon.

Sis City – The Juvenile Fillies hopeful continues to be a very quiet and cool customer after two trips to the Lone Star Park main track including Friday's easy gallop and gate schooling session.

Assistant trainer Ricardo Rosas sent the daughter of Slew City Slew to gallop a mile then jog back to the finish wire before checking in with the starter.

Through it all, Sis City has been very calm and easy going but alert.

“She was a little tired yesterday after her trip, but today she's come right back,” said Rosas, who has worked for trainer Richard Dutrow for six years. “She's a very calm filly.”

Dutrow and the owners of Sis City, Sandy Goldfarb, New York Yankees manager Joe Torre and Michael Dubb, will start the veteran mare Childress in a race at Aqueduct Friday afternoon.

Beyond that, travel plans had not been finalized, although Goldfarb will very likely be on hand. Torre's plans were not clear. Dutrow may stay behind in New York, in which case his friend Bobby Frankel will saddle the filly on Saturday.

Sweet Catomine — In midsummer at Hollywood Park, owner-breeder Marty Wygod had high hopes for a first champion. In July, he raved about the training of a 2yo filly about to make her debut.

But her name was Proposed, not Sweet Catomine. The precocious Proposed grabbed the stable attention while the later-developing Sweet Catomine, bred and built for longer distances, was just getting warmed up at the end of short works.

A new stable star emerged at Del Mar Aug. 28 when Sweet Catomine rallied from far back to win the 7f Del Mar Debutante as a maiden in her second start. Proposed prompted the pace in the same race before tiring in the stretch and came out of it with a knee injury that required surgery that will sideline her until this winter.

Sweet Catomine was even more impressive in her next start in the 1 1/16 miles Oak Leaf Stakes at Santa Anita, winning by a widening four lengths for Wygod and his wife, Pam.

Wygod seemed unconcerned with the filly's post after she drew 10 and was established as the morning line favorite. “It she runs her race, the post shouldn't make much difference,” said Wygod. “Her dam (a stakes winner named Sweet Life) could run all day.”

Wygod will be represented in the Juvenile Fillies for the first time since he and partner Herman Sarkowsky owned Pirate's Glow in the 1984 inaugural at Hollywood Park. Sixth on the outside at the top of the stretch, Pirate's Glow was knocked off stride by Fran's Valentine and faded to 10th. Fran's Valentine was disqualified for interference and placed 10th, with Pirate's Glow moved to ninth.

The Wygods have had four other Breeders' Cup starters since, their best finish a fourth by Exotic Wood in the 1997 Sprint.

Sweet Catomine, trained by Julio Canani, galloped Friday with exercise rider Jose Dominguez.