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With the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar drawing ever closer, Tom Pedulla offers takeaways from five Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” Challenge Series races from this weekend that will help shape the talent-laden fields at the season-culminating event.

Thoroughbred racing in Kentucky continues to hum along at peak levels in 2025, and with the start of fall, all eyes in the commonwealth turn to Lexington, where Keeneland Race Course begins its month-long meet.  

What are the odds? What are the odds that the first horse you buy produces a smashing debut that stamps him as one of the nation’s leading 2-year-olds and a top contender for the $2 million FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance?

Coming off an eight-month layoff between races, it would have been fair to wonder how Imagination  would perform in his return to competition at Santa Anita Park Sept. 28.

Nevada Beach went into the Grade 1 $300,000 Goodwood Stakes Sept. 27 at Santa Anita Park as the least experienced of the six horses in the race.

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