The 5-year-old daughter of American Pharoah won her third graded stakes this year and earned a place in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1T) to be run Oct. 31 at Keeneland.

LRE Racing's T Kraft dug deep in the final furlong to hold off a furious late charge from Crazy Mason to win by a nose in the Vosburgh Stakes (G3) Oct. 1 at Belmont Park.

The Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge, now in its 18th year, attracts top horseplayers from across North America and will crown its winner based on the highest accumulated bankroll at the conclusion of the two-day Breeders' Cup World Championships.

Averill Racing and Anthony Mattera's R Disaster repeats as a front-running winner in the $242,500 Gallant Bloom Stakes (G2) Oct. 1 at Belmont Park.

Coach Pope, a son of Tapit, last out won by an easy 12 1/2 lengths at Churchill Downs. He faces four other challengers that won their last starts, two of them by 6 lengths or more.

Looking to extend her 2-for-2 record, the Brendan Walsh-trained Emphatic continues the success story for her connections, as consignor Four Star Sales reflects on the journey with breeder Jon Marshall.

Oak Leaf Stakes (G2) for juvenile fillies, Rodeo Drive (G2T) for older females on the turf, and Chillingworth (G3) for female sprinters are on tap during Oct. 3 card, which features the American Pharoah Stakes (G1).

Paul and Zillah Reddam base their Thoroughbred racing and breeding operation out of Southern California, but the couple's Reddam Racing has enjoyed an inordinate amount of success at Churchill Downs and Keeneland.

Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey knows what a promising 2-year-old colt looks like. And he saw one in U. S. S. Valor after the juvenile's Aug. 8 debut at Saratoga Race Course.

After landing a pair of graded stakes against her generation this summer at Saratoga Race Course, Counting Stars is entered to face older fillies and mares for the first time in the $650,000 Spinster Stakes (G1) Oct. 4 at Keeneland.

Having won the last three graded stakes held in Kentucky, Brad Cox trains the morning-line favorite in both of the Keeneland fall meet's first two graded stakes Oct. 2.

Grade 2-level sprinters kick off the stakes action Oct. 3 at Keeneland, starting with males on the turf in the Woodford Stakes (G2T) in the sixth race, followed a race later by females on dirt in the Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes (G2).

In this clip from the Sept. 28 episode of BloodHorse Monday: C2 Racing Stable's Mark Cornett discusses what would lead to a decision to run Goodwood Stakes (G1) winner Forged Steel in the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1).

​​​​​​​Spinaway Stakes (G1) winner will get a chance to see if her excellence extends to racing two turns at 1 1/16 miles when she battles Forever Carina and six other 2-year-old fillies in the Oct. 2 Alcibiades Stakes (G1) at Keeneland.

Bret Jones' Libby Lloyd surely lived up to expectations in her career debut. Sent off a 6-5 favorite, she won like a 1-20 shot as she pulled away with ease in the stretch and won by 10 lengths.

Godolphin's Whitney Stakes (G1) winner Sovereignty is atop the latest National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Top Thoroughbred Poll, while Forever Young remains the leader of the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings.

Susumu Fujita's 2025 Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) and 2026 Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes (G1) winner, Forever Young, closed as the 5-2 favorite upon the completion of betting Sept. 27 in Pool No. 2 of the Breeders' Cup Classic Future Wager.

On the Sept. 28 episode of BloodHorse Monday: C2 Racing Stable's Mark Cornett discusses Forged Steel's victory in the Goodwood Stakes (G1), Frank Angst on the ripple effects of Hawthorne's bankruptcy.

Last year's champion 2-year-old filly, in her first race since March, captured the Zenyatta Stakes at Santa Anita and earned a berth into the Breeders' Cup Distaff.

Morplay Racing's 4-year-old filly Shisospicy, last year's champion female sprinter, continues to train forwardly for a planned return trip to the Breeders' Cup.