The stakes schedule for the Keeneland fall meet was released Wednesday, with the repositioning of the Fayette Stakes to serve as a prep for the Breeders’ Cup, which will be held for the second time at the Lexington, Ky., track on Nov. 6-7.

Keeneland will run a 17-day meet from Oct. 2-24, with its most important stakes, as usual, being held early in the meet. Ten stakes will be run as Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In events during the first few days of the meet, including the Alcibiades, Shadwell Turf Mile, First Lady, Breeders’ Futurity, and Spinster, all Grade 1 races.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Tom Amoss calls Serengeti Empress the “gift that keeps on giving” and Saturday at Saratoga the speedy filly gave it her all, overcoming a sluggish start and contested pace to register a one-length victory over the favored Bellafina in the Grade 1 Ballerina. 

The victory was the second in a Grade 1 for Serengeti Empress and earned her an automatic, fees-paid berth into the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

DEL MAR, Calif. – My Girl Red assumed pro-tem leadership of Del Mar’s 2-year-old filly division with her 4 3/4-length victory on Friday in the Grade 2 Sorrento Stakes, and she will seek to solidify that position in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante on Sept. 6.

My Girl Red is from the first crop of Texas Red, the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner. She was bred by Erich Brehm, who was a co-owner of Texas Red, and is trained by Keith Desormeaux, who trained Texas Red.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Last September, Collusion Illusion had trainer Mark Glatt stumped.

After winning the Grade 2 Best Pal Stakes for sprinters in his stakes debut at the Del Mar summer meeting, Collusion Illusion was pulled up after fading rapidly on the backstretch in the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita.

Collusion Illusion was walked back to Glatt’s barn, leaving questions surrounding his performance.

The two-time stakes winner El Tigre Terrible may have his graded stakes debut in the Grade 2 Pat O’Brien Stakes at seven furlongs at Del Mar on Aug. 29.

Trainer Peter Miller said the $150,000 O’Brien is a goal following El Tigre Terrible’s win against 3-year-old statebreds in the Real Good Deal Stakes at seven furlongs Friday. The O’Brien Stakes would be El Tigre Terrible’s first start outside of his age group.

“He handled seven-eighths really well,” Miller said.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The victors - Improbable and Vexatious - and the vanquished - Tom’s d’Etat and Midnight Bisou - from Saturday’s Grade 1 fixtures at Saratoga all hope to end up in the Breeders’ Cup on Nov. 7 at Keeneland. How they get there is yet to be determined in part due to the lack of a set fall schedule for any of the major racing circuits.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Collusion Illusion was seventh in the first half of the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar on Saturday, positioned by jockey Flavien Prat behind a line of six runners zooming through a fast pace in the sprint.

The scenario gave Prat a chance to assess where to position Collusion Illusion entering the stretch. As the frontrunners began to separate, Prat moved Collusion Illusion to the inside. Fourth with a furlong remaining, Collusion Illusion closed well along the rail to reach the front in the final 50 yards.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - In several of his losses,  Improbable was his own worst enemy in the starting gate. In Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney Stakes, Improbable was the beneficiary of someone else’s misfortune at the break.

Gulfstream Park’s Princess Rooney Invitational, a Breeders’ Cup Challenge race and a fixture on the South Florida circuit since 1985, has been cancelled this season, another victim of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Guarana and Rushing Fall, whose Saturday scores as odds-on favorites at Keeneland gave Chad Brown the 100th and 101st Grade 1 victories of his illustrious career, both were flown Monday to Saratoga as Brown considers the best paths to return to Kentucky for their Breeders’ Cup races on Nov. 7.

Guarana won the seven-furlong Madison when re-rallying under Jose Ortiz. Some 90 minutes later, Rushing Fall edged away late under Javier Castellano to win the Jenny Wiley at 1 1/16 miles on turf.