Smart purchases last year paid off handsomely for Woods Edge Farm during the last session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale. A pair of yearling colts bought last year as pinhook prospects resold for a combined $770,000.
R. Lee Lewis and Lexi Lewis' grade 1-placed Rum Twist posted a half-mile breeze Oct. 22 in preparation for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), with NYRA clockers timing her covering the distance in :47.25 over the Belmont Park main track.
Horseshoe Indianapolis Racing & Casino will adjust with the upcoming time change effective Oct. 28. Regular racing programs will move to a 1:30 p.m. ET post time, a change from the traditional 2:10 p.m. post time.
For the last three years, Thoroughbred racing's Horse of the Year has arisen from somewhere other than the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). That figures to change this year.
Keeneland has added three supplements to its Championship Sale: a 2.5% fractional interest in Upstart; a lifetime breeding right in Life Is Good; and a 50% ownership interest in Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) pre-entrant Citrus Springs.
Aidan O'Brien has narrowed down his Futurity Trophy Stakes (G1) team to three as he bids to land a hammer blow in the trainers' title race in Britain's final group 1 of the year Oct. 24 at Doncaster Racecourse.
Keeneland has added three supplements to its Championship Sale: a 2.5% fractional interest in Upstart; a lifetime breeding right in Life Is Good; and a 50% ownership interest in Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) pre-entrant Citrus Springs.
Two of Australia's most exciting 3-year-olds will attempt to upstage an accomplished older generation when Warwoven and Blind Raise take their places in the Oct. 24 Cox Plate (G1).
AJ Will Win Stables' millionaire Barbadian Runner, a $5,000 yearling, seeks a second consecutive victory in the headline event of the 41st edition of the Jim McKay Maryland Million, the Maryland Million Classic.