Autumn Blitz, a maiden invader from California, found the new surroundings to his liking as the 2-year-old colt captured Sunday’s $79,845 colts and geldings division of the Arizona Thoroughbred Breeders Association Fall Sales Stakes at Turf Paradise.
Grade 1 winner Let Faith Arise, in foal to leading sire Tapit, sold for $2.1 million to Marie Jones to set the bar among broodmares early at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall selected mixed sale Sunday evening in Lexington, Ky.
Crittenden finished a neck in front of Acceptance in Saturday’s $82,150 Let It Ride Stakes on turf in what could be the first of two showdowns between the 3-year-olds at the Del Mar autumn meeting.
Stageplay and Mo Tom were the most notable winners on opening day Sunday at Churchill Downs, capturing a pair of one-mile stakes on a 10-race Stars of Tomorrow program.
Caren went right to the front and never looked back to take the $250,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes over the heavily favored Gamble’s Ghost at Woodbine on Sunday.
The 2-year-old Smokey Image is unbeaten in five sprints, the most recent of which was the $200,500 Golden State Juvenile at Del Mar on Friday. For his next start, Smokey Image will be pointed for the $100,000 King Glorious Stakes for California-breds at a mile Dec. 12 at Los Alamitos.
Returning from a layoff with a jaw-dropping performance, Lady Sabelia rallied wide into the stretch and swept past the leaders like they were standing still to win Sunday’s $100,000 Pumpkin Pie, the closing-day feature and final dirt race at Belmont’s fall meet.
Ron Gierkink's Woodbine Horses to Watch for the week of Nov. 2.
A portion of a broadcast late on Saturday afternoon featuring American Pharoah’s victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic drew a 2.6 overnight rating and six share, the highest rating and share for the race since 2010, according to NBC Sports, which broadcast the Friday and Saturday Breeders’ Cup races on its family of networks.
After winning three Breeders’ Cup races in 2014, trainer Chad Brown returned to the 2015 Breeders’ Cup with the most runners of any trainer and walked away with two more victories in the sport’s premier year-end event.
