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Green Carrera and Somerset West, two major race winners this year, have been withdrawn from Sunday’s Grade 3 Autumn Miss Stakes at Santa Anita, significantly changing the $100,000 race for 3-year-old fillies at a mile on turf.
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Mystik Bayou, a half-brother to Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan, steps into stakes company off a maiden victory in Sunday's Grade 3 Street Sense at Churchill Downs.
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Dotsy, the Grade 1 Frizette winner, will not run in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, trainer John Grabowski said Friday.
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Classic Q will attempt to stretch out to 1 3/16 miles in the $2 million Filly and Mare Turf and not face the boys in the $2 million Mile, trainer Mark Casse said Friday.
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While Golden Tempo and Napoleon Solo have won the most significant races in the 3-year-old division this year, their connections know their charges will have to come with their career-best efforts in order to topple the older horses in the $7 million Breeders' Cup Classic on Oct. 31 at Keeneland.
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Trainer Todd Pletcher ranks second in starters in Breeders' Cup history with 187 but this year he will have one of his smallest contingents ever when he starts just six horses in three races.
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Although Golden Tempo and Napoleon Solo, who captured all three legs of this year's Triple Crown, turned in their final works for the 2026 Breeders' Cup Classic Friday at Keeneland, the number one star for the morning went to another immensely talented 3-year-old.
Lightning Vaquera needed less than 20 seconds on Oct. 3 to go from a summertime flop in Albuquerque to the fastest qualifier for Sunday's $1.19 million Golden State Million Futurity at Los Alamitos.
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Sunday's opening-day card at Churchill Downs features nothing but 2-year-old races, 11 of them, anchored by the Rags to Riches for 2-year-old fillies, which came up light, and the Street Sense for 2-year-olds, which came up heavy.
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Lion Lake and Ground Support both ran winning races but did not win when finishing second and third, respectively, in the Grade 2 Music City Stakes at Kentucky Downs last month. Sunday, both 3-year-old fillies find themselves in the same venue but will line up at different times in split divisions of the Grade 3, $200,000 Glen Cove Stakes at Belmont Park.
