These Acorns Disperse : Horse racing: Trainer McAnally’s four talented 2-year-olds are sent all over as Oak Tree begins at Santa Anita.

Virtually all points of the compass will be needed to track trainer Ron McAnally’s precocious 2-year-olds this weekend. On Target and Comstock Queen have gone east. Mr Purple has gone from north to south. And Call Now, probably the most talented of the four, is staying on the West Coast to run in the $200,000 Oak Leaf Stakes for fillies at Santa Anita on Saturday.

If the four juveniles run as McAnally hopes they will--competitively and without injury--they will have a reunion in a couple of $1-million Breeders’ Cup races at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5, with On Target and Mr Purple scheduled for the Juvenile and Call Now and Comstock Queen expected for the Juvenile Fillies.

In his heyday, Wayne Lukas used to routinely run entries in those two races. At Churchill in 1988, Lukas’ horses ran 1-2-3 in the Juvenile Fillies and he also won the Juvenile that year. McAnally has only dabbled in the 2-year-old races. His Breeders’ Cup success--three winners from 14 starters--has been achieved with older horses.

Last year, Phone Chatter won the Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita after capturing the Oak Leaf, which is one of five stakes that will launch the Oak Tree Racing Assn.’s 26th season in Arcadia. The 27-day meeting begins today with the $75,000 Autumn Days Handicap. Sunday brings the $300,000 Oak Tree Invitational and the $200,000 Norfolk Stakes, and on Monday, the Columbus Day holiday, the feature is the $100,000 Lady’s Secret Handicap.

On Target won the Del Mar Futurity, and the simpler route to the Breeders’ Cup would have been the Norfolk, but McAnally will run him instead on Saturday at Belmont Park in the Champagne, a race that his sire, Forty Niner, won in 1987.

“The purse in New York is $500,000, more than twice what it is here,” McAnally said. “And the New York race is a Grade I, and the Norfolk is a Grade II. Those are the reasons he’s running in New York.”

The Norfolk, which lost its status as a Grade I last year, is one of those races that taints the credibility of the North American Graded Stakes Committee. Previous winners of the Norfolk have included Flying Paster, Roving Boy, Chief’s Crown, Snow Chief, Capote, Best Pal and Bertrando.

Accompanying On Target to New York is Comstock Queen, who will also run Saturday, in the $250,000 Frizette at Belmont.

Mr Purple’s preparations for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile have been completed. The winner of the Hollywood Juvenile, he was unable to run in the Del Mar Futurity because of a clerical oversight by McAnally. Consequently, Mr Purple traveled to Chicago for the Arlington-Washington Futurity last month and suffered his first loss. Running over a muddy track that he didn’t like, Mr Purple slammed into the gate at the start and was third, 5 1/4 lengths behind the winner, Evansville Slew.

McAnally will also run D’hallevant in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint Nov. 5, and is waiting to hear from Sidney Craig on Paseana and the Distaff. Craig paid supplementary fees totaling $400,000 the last two years as Paseana won the Distaff and $520,000 in 1992 and earned $200,000 for finishing second in the stake last year.

“At Del Mar this summer, he was dead set against (paying another $200,000 supplementary)” McAnally said. “I’m not real sure how he feels about it now.”

Craig and his wife, Jenny, also race Exchange, who is eligible for the Distaff. The race probably will be the toughest to win on the seven-race Breeders’ Cup card, with Hollywood Wildcat, last year’s winner, and Sky Beauty, undefeated this year, also expected to run.

All four of McAnally’s 2-year-olds had the breeding credentials to be good, but it was Call Now that caught the Hall of Fame trainer’s eye from the start.

“I still think she’s at the top of my group,” McAnally said. “Besides a lot of ability, she’s got a perfect disposition and is very easy to train.”

Call Now lost her first race, in July, by a half-length, then beat maidens before winning the Del Mar Debutante. She wasn’t nominated for the Oak Leaf, so on Tuesday, to avoid the embarrassment that came from Mr Purple’s being excluded from the Del Mar Futurity, McAnally paid the $10,000 supplementary fee that will enable the filly to run Saturday.

Mr Purple races for Alex Campbell. Call Now, On Target and Comstock Queen belong to Verne Winchell, the 79-year-old owner-breeder whose first important winner was the McAnally-trained Donut King in the Champagne in 1961.

The other day, another horseman mentioned to Eduardo Inda, McAnally’s long-time assistant, how lucky Winchell was to have all these good young horses.

“Lucky?” Inda sniffed. “Lucky? This man’s been in the game for more than 40 years. He’s been putting up his money for more than 40 years, breeding and running horses. He’s had some good breaks and some bad breaks. But this isn’t lucky. This is staying in the game for all these years, and now getting the chance to get something really nice out of it.”

Horse Racing Notes

Laffit Pincay Jr. chose to ride Exchange in the Lady’s Secret on Monday, which means that Phone Chatter will have a jockey change. . . . Kent Desormeaux has won the last three runnings of the Autumn Days, with Bel’s Starlet in 1991 and ‘92, and Toussaud last year. His mount today is Starolamo. . . . The Oak Tree meet runs through Nov. 7. Fans will also be able to bet all of the races from Bay Meadows. . . . First post will be 12:30 p.m., with earlier starts for California Cup day on Oct. 29, and on Nov. 5, when the Breeders’ Cup races will be simulcast from Churchill Downs.