Zeitlos, last year's winner of the Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes (G2), will look to add a repeat victory in the 6-furlong race when she faces a field of six fillies and mares, including multiple graded stakes winner Vahva Oct. 4.

The 2024 Horse of the Year has won 12 of her 15 career starts and 10 of her 12 wins are in black-type stakes. The Spinster Stakes (G1) will be her 10th start in a grade 1 race.

One wouldn't blame Thoroughbred owner Lance Gasaway for spending some time on Google this week researching second lightning strikes.

The CA$250,000 Nearctic Stakes (G2T) Oct. 4 at Woodbine is not part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series: Win and You're In, but the connections of favored Bring Theband Home understandably have a Breeders' Cup race on their minds.

Repole Stable's Final Score aims to carry his speed to Kentucky as he faces 11 rivals in the $400,000 Bourbon Stakes (G2T) at Keeneland Oct. 5.

Three Europeans, led by group 1 winner Diego Velazquez, take on nine high-quality American runners in the $1.25 million Turf Mile Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland Oct. 4.

Trainer Whit Beckman debuted a couple of promising 2-year-olds at Saratoga Race Course. One a colt, the other a filly.

The British Racing Hall of Fame will have two new members Oct. 18 as Enable (GB), who defeated males in the 2018 Breeders' Cup Turf (G1T) at Churchill Downs, and Major Dick Hern join the modern greats of British Flat racing as the latest inductees.

Forever Young looked fit and ready for a return engagement in the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) as he easily won the Nippon TV Hai Oct. 1 at Funabashi Racecourse.

Forever Young looked fit and ready for a return engagement in the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) as he easily won the Nippon TV Hai Oct. 1 at Funabashi Racecourse.

Most of the field for the Oct. 3 Jessamine Stakes (G2T) was last seen at Kentucky Downs, but the morning-line pick, Time to Dream, brings her undefeated record from Saratoga.

A field of 12 fillies will vie for a spot in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) at Del Mar in the 1 1/16-mile Miss Grillo Stakes (G2T) Oct. 4 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Trainer Bob Baffert is training Bottle of Rouge up to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), but two of her stablemates, including likely favorite Explora, will try to join her via the $200,000 Oak Leaf Stakes (G2) Oct. 4 at Santa Anita Park.

Hopeful Stakes (G1) winner Ted Noffey will look to extend his brilliance to Kentucky and around two turns when he routes for the first time in the $650,000 Breeders' Futurity (G1) going 1 1/16 miles Oct. 4 at Keeneland.

After finishing second and third in the With Anticipation Stakes (G3T), Heeere's Johnny and Capital Partner are back looking for their first stakes win in the $200,000 Pilgrim Stakes (G2T) at Aqueduct Racetrack Oct. 3.

If there's a star in the field for the Oct. 4 Champagne Stakes (G1) at the moment it would be Double Down Horse Racing's It's Our Time, whose astonishing debut went platinum in music parlance. 

Tommy Jo and Percy's Bar last out finished 1-2 in the Spinaway Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. They are the only stakes winners in the six-horse field for the Oct. 3 Alcibiades Stakes (G1) going 1 1/16 miles at Keeneland.

After securing runner-up honors in the past two editions of the Phoenix Stakes (G2), Nakatomi will try to land top honors when he starts in the six-furlong sprint Oct. 3 at Keeneland.

On the Sept. 29 episode of BloodHorse Monday, Kenny McPeek discusses Mystik Dan's Lukas Classic (G2) win and Thorpedo Anna's upcoming start in the Spinster Stakes (G1) at Keeneland Oct. 5. Bob Ehalt recaps weekend racing in New York.

Forever Young will get his warmup for the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) in the Nippon TV Hai Oct. 1 at Funabashi Racecourse in Japan.