So There She Was, who won the $200,000 Remington Park Oaks last month in Oklahoma, and Lemon Zest, who finished second as the favorite, are both under consideration for the Grade 2, $300,000 Mother Goose at Aqueduct, according to their respective trainers.

The 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-old fillies will be run Nov. 8.

So There She Was shipped in from Santa Anita for the Remington Park Oaks, where she was a 2 3/4-length winner, one start after running second in the Grade 3 Torrey Pines at Del Mar.

Touchuponastar’s primary objective for the remainder of the year is the $150,000 Louisiana Champions Day Classic on Dec. 13 at Fair Grounds, according to his owner, Jake Delhomme. The Grade 2 winner has won the race the last three years.

Touchuponastar remains in peak form for trainer Jeff Delhomme, and last weekend opened the Delta Downs meet with a track-record performance in the $100,000 Gold Cup.

A win in the Group 1 St. James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot in Britain in June clinched Field of Gold’s status as one of the finest 3-year-old milers in Europe. A win in Saturday’s Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at the same venue can restore his reputation after a disappointing fourth in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse in July.

Grade 1 winners from California, Oklahoma, and Texas will meet in New Mexico on Saturday night in the $265,000 American Quarter Horse Association Challenge Championship at the Downs at Albuquerque.

The Grade 1 race at 440 yards is the feature on a card of 10 stakes for Quarter Horses beginning at 6:05 p.m. Mountain. There are five graded races, and those comprise the annual traveling card known as the Challenge Championships.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Phil Antonacci and his family’s Lindy Farms made a big investment in Ready for Candy, purchasing the then-maiden for $400,000 out of the Fasig-Tipton mixed sale in February. Thus far, the wager has paid off handsomely.

No one would bat an eye if Ragtime showed up in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint. Three decisive wins from four starts, a winning race when she took her lone defeat in the Grade 1 Test.

Delacroix and Ombudsman were a neck apart when first and second in the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park in England in July, and separated by 3 1/2 lengths when the order of finished was reversed in the Group 1 Juddmonte International at York in August.

Consider Saturday’s Group 1 Champion Stakes at Ascot to be the 2025 series decider between the accomplished pair with one important caveat – the French shipper Calandagan is on a two-race winning streak, adores Ascot, and has outstanding credentials of his own.

ARCADIA, Calif. – It’s been a long time between wins for most runners entered in the $80,000 Lure Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita, which is sort of the point.

The turf mile is restricted to horses who have not won a stakes race this year other than California-bred. This year’s Lure field took it to the extreme. Six of the seven entrants have not won any type race in more than a year, including a veteran gelding who upset the Lure in 2024.

When Run Rudolf took a commanding lead on the final lap of the 1 3/8-mile Fall Classic Handicap on Oct. 4, he was a few furlongs away from cementing his status as the top older male of the 2025 Hastings meet.

Unfortunately, a few moments earlier, the race’s 2024 winner, Apprehend, had clipped heels with another horse and lost his rider, Amadeo Perez. With Perez unconscious on the course and medics tending to him, the race was declared a no contest and the jockeys pulled up their mounts before the turn for home and basically jogged home.

The text message, summarizing Snap Decision’s condition in advance of Saturday’s Grade 1 American Grand National Hurdle at Far Hills, N.J, went quickly to the point.

“He’s flying,” jockey Graham Watters wrote recently to co-owner Mike Hankin. “We can’t get him anymore ready than he is, great form.”