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The Keeneland fall meet begins on Friday, October 3 with the $400,000 Grade II Phoenix Stakes for dirt sprinters over 1,200m. Only six speedsters head for the Commonwealth Of Kentucky, but a number of them previously strutted their stuff at Saratoga either this summer or the one prior. Perhaps of greatest interest in this contest …

Belmont At The Big Apple continues to host races from its fall meet at Aqueduct Racetrack with the $500,000 Grade II Jockey Club Derby over 2,200m the big turf race in New York on Saturday, October 4. Among seven runners here are two who contested the Test of the Champion earlier in the season. While …

As the three-year-old fillies’ equivalent of the Pennsylvania Derby, the $1,000,000 Grade I Cotillion Stakes over 1,700m at Parx northeast of Philadelphia on Saturday, September 20 attracts some classy females. Taking each other on again are three of the first five home in the Acorn Stakes earlier in the summer.  On that occasion, La Cara …

Big clashes were the story of the elongated summer meet at Saratoga, so Belmont Oaks third and fourth Opulent Restraint and May Day Ready facing off again on turf in the $175,000 Grade III Wonder Again Stakes from Aqueduct on Saturday, September 20 is a treat for horse racing fans in New York. These three-year-old …

Mark Casse runs the same two horses that targeted the $1,000,000 Grade I Woodbine Mile at the racetrack of the same name outside Toronto on the Turf Champions Day card on Saturday, September 13 from 12 months ago. While Win For The Money mounts a defense of his crown in a field of nine, barn …

Kentucky Downs near the Tennessee border hosts its last big bucks race of the turf meet from the Franklin, KY track with the $2,000,000 Grade III Dueling Grounds Oaks on Wednesday, September 10. That massive prize purse attracts a dozen runners to the Commonwealth including Fionn. Using the same 2,100m course and distance as the …

Another competitive field assembles at Kentucky Downs for the $2,500,000 Grade II Kentucky Turf Cup over a mile-and-a-half as the turf meet continues at the Franklin, KY racetrack on Saturday, September 6. Among 11 runners in this edition are three of last season’s first five past the wire. Joining Grand Sonata, who mounts a defense …

With a total prize purse of $2,000,000 on offer, the 1,300m Grade II Music City Stakes during the Kentucky Downs turf meet attracts some top sprinters on grass to the racetrack near the Commonwealth’s Tennessee border. Chief among them is Saratoga Test Stakes heroine Kilwin, who escapes a penalty for this valuable contest on Saturday, …

Last season’s Belmont Stakes second and third, Mindframe and Sierra Leone, do battle at Saratoga Race Course once again in the $1,000,000 Grade I Jockey Club Gold Cup as the Spa’s summer meet draws to a close on Labor Day Weekend. The third chapter of their intriguing rivalry happens in Upstate New York over 2,000m …

A third clash of the Saratoga summer meet between Book’em Danno and Mullikin happens in the $500,000 Grade I Forego Stakes on Saturday, August 23 just before the Travers. These two faced off over 1,300m and 1,200m in the True North Stakes and Vanderbilt Handicap, but will the result be the same in this 1,400m assignment?  …