Caprice puts her unbeaten record on the line Wednesday at Delaware when she stretches out around two turns for the first time in the $125,000 White Clay Creek for 2-year-old fillies at one mile.

“She’s by Golden Lad, so we don’t expect it to be a problem,” trainer Cal Lynch said. “The mare was two turns. She’s worked like it shouldn’t be a problem.”

Caprice took her first three sprints, all at Delaware, by a combined 20 lengths. Most recently, she notched the restricted Small Wonder at odds-on.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Six graded stakes wins and a couple of runner-up finishes over the last two weekends helped to formulate the contingent of horses trainer Chad Brown will be taking to the 41st Breeders’ Cup on Nov. 1-2 at Del Mar.

While perhaps smaller than in most years, Brown’s cast of eight – perhaps as many as 10 – will be quite formidable.

John Stewart, who runs as Resolute Racing, has made a major name as a buyer of top-flight Thoroughbreds worldwide over the last two years to establish a high-end operation. Now, he might make a splash as a seller.

Stewart, who indicated last month that he was taking a look at the numbers for his operation, entered four weanlings and two broodmares in the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Air Force Red, who has not won a stakes since New Year’s Eve in 2022, is under consideration for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at five furlongs at Del Mar on Nov. 2.

Trainer Leonard Powell said over the weekend that he is eager to start the 6-year-old Air Force Red in a Breeders’ Cup race and said the Turf Sprint may be the more likely option than the Mile on turf.

“I don’t think he’ll get in the Mile,” Powell said. “The only chance may be the Turf Sprint. If the horse is doing well, we’ll see.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Two months ago, Hang the Moon was at best a moderately successful filly, with two stakes placings in her first nine starts.

Last Saturday at Santa Anita, she won her second consecutive graded stakes in the Grade 2 Rodeo Drive Stakes to earn a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf on Nov. 2 at Del Mar.

Hang the Moon has thrived in longer races of late, winning the Grade 2 John C. Mabee Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on turf on Sept. 7 at Del Mar, and the longest race of her career in the $201,000 Rodeo Drive Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on turf.

Among several young sires who recorded multiple 2-year-old stakes winners over the weekend, multiple Grade 1 winner McKinzie stood out, sweeping Aqueduct’s Grade 1 races for the division on Saturday with juveniles from his first crop.

McKinzie’s Chancer McPatrick earned the second Grade 1 win of his young career as he swept to victory in the Champagne Stakes, following the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga. Earlier on the Aqueduct card, Scottish Lassie won her maiden in the Frizette Stakes.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Tapit Kissit Winit won his abbreviated debut nicely, and the blue-blooded Tapit colt extends to a more suitable distance in Thursday’s Woodbine opener, a one-mile allowance for 2-year-olds on the inner turf.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Barring a last-minute change of heart, it appears local 2-year-old sensation Rated by Merit will skip the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile to make his next start in the $200,000 Affirmed Stakes going seven furlongs here on Oct. 19.

Crystal Quest should have the variables of pace and distance working in his favor Sunday at Hawthorne, where the closer could go favored over 11 others in the $150,000 Hawthorne Derby.

The 1 1/8-mile turf race also drew Alotaluck, the runner-up to Stronghold in the Grade 3 Sunland Park Derby; Tour Queen, a filly who owns the field’s best last-race turf Beyer Speed Figure; T’Challa, a runner making his first start for trainer Neil Drysdale after being based in England; and Baxley, who tries turf after winning his last three races.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Chad Brown made a lineup change for Sunday’s rescheduled Miss Grillo Stakes at Aqueduct, but it serves to only make him feel better about his chances to win the turf stakes for 2-year-old fillies a record 10th time.

Brown has three runners in the Miss Grillo, a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes originally scheduled for Sept. 29 but postponed due to rain which forced the New York Racing Association to not conduct turf racing that day.