LEXINGTON, Ky. – Wesley Ward enjoyed a sensational opening weekend at Keeneland, and not just as a horse trainer.

Ward not only trains but also is listed as the sole owner of Judy the Beauty, the winner of the $200,000 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes on Saturday, meaning the only thing Ward had to subtract from the $120,000 winner’s share was the standard 10 percent jockey’s commission to John Velazquez.

Moreover, the Grade 2 TCA carried a Win and You’re In bonus toward the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

When the summer began, trainer Tom Amoss had the No. 1-rated sprinter in the country in Delaunay, a former claimer who capped off a six-race winning streak with an easy victory in the Grade 2 Churchill Downs Sprint. But when Amoss returns to Santa Anita next month for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, he’ll return with a familiar face, the speedy Sum of the Parts, who earned his way into the Sprint the same way he did a year ago, with a victory last Friday in the Win and You’re In Grade 3 Phoenix at Keeneland.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Clenor extended her winning streak to three races in Sunday’s $101,250 Surfer Girl Stakes on turf at Santa Anita, showing a slight change in her running style that could be a benefit for her next start in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 1.

Instead of closing from the back of the field, Clenor was in the middle of the 10-filly field in the Surfer Girl for the first half-mile. Clenor ($3.40) rallied from sixth under Rafael Bejarano, about five lengths off the pace, before taking the lead in the final furlong.

ELMONT, N.Y. - As he did a year ago, trainer Chad Brown swept the pair of graded turf stakes for juveniles at Belmont Park on Sunday, and he will be well stocked to take on the world next month in the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita.

In the Grade 3, $200,000 Pilgrim Stakes for colts and geldings, a stalking Bobby’s Kitten romped to a 6 1/4-length victory over the late-running Shadow Banking, also trained by Brown.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Aotearoa, making his first start against open company, ended the unbeaten record of Diamond Bachelor with an upset win in Sunday’s $100,250 Zuma Beach for 2-year-olds on turf at Santa Anita.

Aotearoa ($28.60) closed along the rail in the stretch to catch 2-5 Diamond Bachelor in the final sixteenth of the one-mile race, winning by three-quarters of a length in 1:34.42. Got Shades, 8-1, finished third in the field of six.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Emollient complemented her wire-to-wire victory in the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes here in the spring by rallying from dead last Sunday to post a 1 1/4-length score in the 58th running of the Grade 1, $500,000 Juddmonte Spinster at Keeneland.

Ridden by Mike Smith for trainer Bill Mott, Emollient paid $6.60 as favorite after finishing the 1 1/8-mile distance in 1:47.75 over Polytrack. Summer Applause was second, another 3 1/2 lengths before third-place finisher Wine Princess in a field of 11 fillies and mares.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Neither rain nor a drop in temperature at Keeneland could cool off trainer Wayne Catalano, one of the hottest trainers in North America in recent weeks. Amid dreary weather, Catalano was a winner again Sunday when Poker Player rallied for a 23-1 upset in the 23rd running of the Grade 3, $150,000 Bourbon Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile race transferred from turf to the main Polytrack surface because of the weather.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Points Offthebench will have a light preparation for the $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 2 after winning his second consecutive Grade 1 race in Saturday’s $250,250 Santa Anita Sprint Championship.

The victory confirmed Points Offthebench’s status as a leading contender for the BC Sprint, following a win in his stakes debut in the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar on July 28.

Trainer Tim Yakteen said on Sunday that Points Offthebench will have only one or two workouts before the BC Sprint.

ARCADIA, Calif. - On Labor Day weekend, No Jet Lag was omitted from the $250,000 Del Mar Derby because of insufficient career earnings. What really stung trainer Simon Callaghan was that the race was divided into two divisions, and No Jet Lag still couldn’t get in from the also-eligible list.

Five weeks later, No Jet Lag ran in the next possible turf stakes, Saturday’s $150,750 City of Hope Mile Stakes on turf. The opportunity was not wasted. No Jet Lag gave a career-best performance to win by a half-length.

As flashy as Treve looked winning the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on Sunday, Moonlight Cloud might have been her equal winning the Group 1 Prix de la Foret 1 1/2 hours later.