ARCADIA, Calif. – While Bob Baffert tightened the screws on Breeders’ Cup candidates McKinzie, Eight Rings, and Bast – all three worked Monday at Santa Anita – two of Baffert’s high-profile runners will miss the remainder of the season. Game Winner, champion 2-year-old of 2018, is tack-walking at Santa Anita. Marley’s Freedom, among the country’s top female sprinters with six graded wins, was recently turned out. Both will miss the Breeders’ Cup. Game Winner remains at the track, but not in serious training. The 3-year-old scored a five-length victory in the Grade 3 Los Alamitos Derby on July 13, and was training toward the Travers Stakes at Saratoga when he got sick this summer at Del Mar. “He got real sick, and then he got real light on me again,” Baffert said. “I said, let’s pull the plug. The Breeders’ Cup is out. I’d like to run him as a 4-year-old. It’s up to [owner] Gary West.”  Game Winner won all four of his starts in 2018, including the BC Juvenile. He finished second in his first two starts as a 3-year-old, ran sixth with a wide trip in the Kentucky Derby, then followed with a comeback victory at Los Alamitos. The son of Candy Ride has won five races and $2,027,500 from eight starts. Marley’s Freedom is on a farm in Kentucky with plans undetermined. “She’s being freshened up,” Baffert said. “I didn’t like the way she was training.” A 5-year-old with nine wins and earnings of $1,233,935, Marley’s Freedom finished fourth as the favorite in the 2018 BC Filly and Mare Sprint. This year she won two Grade 2’s and finished second in two Grade 1’s. Her most recent start was a victory in the Great Lady M. Stakes on July 6 at Los Alamitos. Cicero Farms owns Marley’s Freedom, the leading money earner sired by Blame. Baffert workers Monday included potential BC Classic favorite McKinzie, who worked five furlongs in 59.80. McKinzie won the Grade 1 Whitney at Saratoga last out, and runs Sept. 28 in the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita. Eight Rings, who lost his rider as the odds-on favorite in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity, worked five furlongs in company in 1:00.20 while wearing blinkers. Baffert plans to add blinkers when he starts the 2-year-old colt in the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 27. Bast, runaway winner of the Del Mar Debutante, worked five furlongs in 1:01.20. She is expected to be heavily favored Sept. 28 in the Grade 1 Chandelier Stakes at Santa Anita. Improbable worked five furlongs in 1:00.20 for the Pennsylvania Derby. * Higher Power, upset winner of the Pacific Classic at Del Mar, worked five furlongs Monday in 1:01. He earned a fees-paid berth for the BC Classic and could train into the Breeders’ Cup, pending a decision by trainer John Sadler.