Ivanhowe comfortably won the Group 1 Grosser Preis Von Baden on Sunday at Iffezheim Racecourse in Baden-Baden, Germany. 

Rallying from 10^th in an 11-horse field, Ivanhowe collared pacesetting Sea the Moon with about a quarter-mile left in the 11/2-mile Grosser Preis Von Baden, and to the surprise of most, pushed past for a three-length victory.

Sea the Moon, the heavy favorite, came into the race unbeaten in four starts and was the ante-post favorite for the Prix de l’Arc d’Triomphe on the strength of his 11-length tour de force July 6 in the German Derby.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Cristina’s Journey sped her way into the Breeders’ Cup when leading every step of the Grade 2, $231,000 Pocahontas Stakes, the fourth and final stakes on a busy Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs.

Rating kindly out front for jockey Miguel Mena, Cristina’s Journey turned back several challenges to remain unbeaten in two starts and earn an expenses-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita.

Unbeaten and untested in four starts, Germany’s best horse since Danedream, and the summer favorite to follow in Danedream’s footsteps and win the Prix de l’Arc d’Triomphe, Sea the Moon makes a greatly anticipated return to the races Sunday at Baden-Baden in the Group 1, $325,000 Grosser Preis von Baden.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.  - If there is to be a Round 3 between Itsmyluckyday and Moreno, it is unlikely to occur in the $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park on Sept. 27.

Itsmyluckyday beat Moreno in Saturday’s Grade 1, $600,000 Woodward at Saratoga by one half-length, reversing a 1 1/4-length loss to Moreno in the Grade 1 $1.25 million Whitney here four weeks earlier.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -  Wise Dan thrust his head out of his stall, looking around for his feed tub shortly before 10 a.m. on Sunday, acting bright and happy. He did not look like a horse who, less than 24 hours earlier, had carried 127 pounds to a gut-wrenching and near record-setting victory coming off a four-month layoff in the Grade 2 Bernard Baruch Handicap.

California-based trainer Doug O’Neill has shipped Private Zone to Parx Racing for Monday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Turf Monster Handicap, a five-furlong turf sprint. The Turf Monster will be Private Zone’s first start since he finished second to Flat Out in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct last November.

The Turf Monster will be the grass debut for Private Zone, the winner of the Grade 1 Vosburgh at Belmont last September.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The calling card for Big Macher during his rise from a maiden claimer to a Grade 1 stakes winner has been his will to win, but that spirit was absent last Sunday in the Pat O’Brien Stakes, a performance trainer Richard Baltas believes was due to coming back too quickly for a second race following a lengthy layoff.

Big Macher won the Grade 1 Bing Crosby over six furlongs early in the meet but finished sixth of seven in the seven-furlong Pat O’Brien.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The most authoritative victory on Saturday's Travers Day card belonged to the 3-year-old filly Artemis Agrotera, who defeated older rivals in the Grade 1 Ballerina by 6 1/2 lengths.

DEL MAR, Calif.- Since the start of his career in November 2011, Big John B has run in 16 claiming races at Aqueduct, Belmont, Churchill Downs, Gulfstream Park, Keeneland, and Monmouth Park. He was claimed in six of those races, most recently for $50,000 by Michael House at Keeneland in April.

Little could any of Big John B’s previous owners and trainers envisioned what the 6-year-old gelding has become this summer.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - In a word, brilliant.

Close Hatches, showing a terrific early turn of foot to make the lead entering the first turn, sloshed her way through the muddy mess that was Saratoga’s main track Friday, and rolled to a front-running, five-length victory in the Grade 1, $500,000 Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga.

In the process, Close Hatches kept her perfect record in 2014 intact at 4 for 4, maintained her stranglehold on the older filly and mare division, and earned a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff to be run on Oct. 31 at Santa Anita.