Unleashing her trademark late kick, 5-year-old Time to Dazzle lived up to her name, charging from the back of the pack to capture the $400,000 Franklin Stakes (G2T) Oct. 11 at Keeneland for the second year in a row.

An unusually busy week for the Australasian horses-in-training market gets underway Oct. 12 when Magic Millions stages its Gold Coast auction, just three days before Inglis hosts its Ready2Race Sale at Riverside Stables.

The last few years American buyers have flirted with setting new benchmarks when they participate in Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. This year, the spending record fell and the mark for lots bought was matched.

Grade 1 winner and stallion Tom's d'Etat has died following a brief illness, GMB Racing's Greg Bensel said in an Oct. 11 post on X. He was 13.

Ten champions were crowned at the 2026 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, which came to a close Oct. 10.

Now that Tam Tam is a two-time grade 1 winner, trainer Phil Bauer is weighing making an attempt at a third in the Dec. 26 American Oaks (G1T) or waiting for her 4-year-old campaign.

Yomar Ortiz Jr., a 17-year-old son of a jockey, is set to make his own riding debut on one of racing's biggest stages, Keeneland, Oct. 14.

Reigning Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) winner Forever Young and Suburban Stakes (G2) winner Phileas Fogg put in works at Belmont Park in preparation for the Breeders' Cup Classic Oct. 31 at Keeneland.

Reminders of Book 2 have been appearing in equine form across Newmarket lately as the bloodstock world readied itself for the next stage of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Oct. 12-14.

Trainer Cherie DeVaux has established a non-profit foundation to provide educational scholarships to students pursuing careers in the equine industry and to support organizations dedicated to rescuing and protecting at-risk Thoroughbreds.