Mucho Unusual led throughout the Grade 1 Rodeo Drive Stakes for fillies and mares on turf at Santa Anita on Saturday to earn a berth an automatic berth to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Keeneland on Nov. 7.

The $300,000 Rodeo Drive was Mucho Unusual’s first win in a race at the highest level for owner and breeder George Krikorian and trainer Tim Yakteen.

The race was the first Grade 1 win for jockey Juan Hernandez, a former leading rider at Golden Gate Fields who relocated to Southern California over the winter.

ELMONT, N.Y. - The career-ending injury to Volatile created a void in the sprint division. Firenze Fire did his best Saturday afternoon at Belmont Park to begin to fill it.

Returning to his favorite surface - a fast Belmont Park main track - Firenze Fire rebounded from a last-place finish in the Grade 1 Forego in the slop at Saratoga last month with a 2 3/4-length victory in the Grade 2, $150,000 Vosburgh Stakes.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Whether it’s in New York or Kentucky, Royal Ascot or France, or out here in California, trainer Wesley Ward is a terror in 2-year-old turf sprints.

On Saturday at Santa Anita, he added at least his second assured starter to his Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint roster on Nov. 6 at Keeneland when the filly Amanzi Yimpilo outran seven males and another female to take the $102,000 Speakeasy Stakes.

Supremacy wired the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes in a game performance, Alcohol Free desperately held off Miss Amulet and Umm Kulthum, and New Mandate punched his ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf on a card highlighted by 2-year-old racing Saturday at Newmarket in England.

ARCADIA, Calif. -- In a little more than a month, Princess Noor has skyrocketed to the top of Hall of Fame jockey Victor Espinoza’s list of favorite 2-year-old fillies.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Mark Glatt and Collusion Illusion both got their first Grade 1 victories last month in the Bing Crosby. Now both have their sights set on a potential Eclipse Award, which likely would come to Collusion Illusion if he can win his next two starts, beginning Sunday with the Grade 2, $200,000 Santa Anita Sprint Championship.

The Breeders’ Cup Classic this year will have a post time of 5:13 p.m. Eastern when the race is held as part of the two-day event at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Ky., on Nov. 6-7 this year, the Breeders' Cup announced on Thursday.

A deliberate and successful progression through the summer could lead to an outstanding autumn campaign for Maxim Rate, who will have her 2020 Grade 1 debut in Saturday’s $300,000 Rodeo Drive Stakes at Santa Anita.

Maxim Rate was second by a head in a second-condition optional claimer at a mile on turf at Santa Anita in June in her first start since November. Maxim Rate was unbeaten in two starts on turf at the Del Mar summer meeting – a second-condition optional claimer at a mile on July 10 and the CTT and TOC Handicap for fillies and mares at 1 3/8 miles on Aug. 16.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Steve Asmussen was supposed to win Saturday’s Grade 2, $150,000 Vosburgh with Volatile. With that horse retired due to injury, he will instead try to win it with Engage.

Away from the races since a fourth-place finish in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Sprint, Engage will look to earn an automatic berth into this year’s BC Sprint when he faces five rivals in the Vosburgh at Belmont Park. The Vosburgh is designated a Win and You’re In race for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, to be run Nov. 7 at Keeneland.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Although most runners in the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita are trying to justify a trip to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile this fall at Keeneland, at least one is already guaranteed to ship.

Notable Exception will be stabled at Keeneland during Breeders’ Cup week, regardless of his performance Saturday at Santa Anita. That is because Keeneland happens to be home for the flashy debut winner owned and bred by Calumet Farm. And it begs the question – what is the Midwest-based colt doing on the West Coast anyway?