The connections of He’s Had Enough, who came within a head of upsetting last year’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, will be back for another try this year with Bond Holder, who went into last Saturday’s FrontRunner Stakes at Santa Anita a maiden and came out a Grade 1 winner.

It was a case of win some lose some for Todd Pletcher over the weekend, as Graydar returned from six months on the sidelines to win Saturday’s Kelso Invitational at Belmont Park, while the announcement of Shanghai Bobby’s retirement came the very next day.

The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf picked up a starter on Saturday – and maybe the race favorite – when Vorda won the Group 1, $291,007 Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket.

There are six Win and You’re In races leading up to the Grade 1, $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf on Nov. 1 at Santa Anita, and the first three winners are not going to take advantage of the fees-paid berth that goes with winning. 

After Berkshire won the Group 2 Juddmonte Royal Lodge Stakes at Newmarket last Saturday, his trainer Paul Cole said he probably wouldn’t run again until next year.

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Hall of Fame trainer Claude “Shug” McGaughey III was the Honored Guest at the Thoroughbred Club of America’s Testimonial Dinner on Sunday night at Keeneland Race Course.

McGaughey, 62, has saddled nine Eclipse Award winners: Easy Goer, Heavenly Prize, Inside Information, Personal Ensign, Queena, Rhythm, Smuggler, Storm Flag Flying and Vanlandingham, and he earned an Eclipse Award in his own right as outstanding trainer in 1988.

Shanghai Bobby, undefeated during his 2-year-old championship season in 2012, has been retired from racing due to an injury and will stand stud next year at Coolmore America’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky, according to a press release issued Sunday by his connections.

According to the release, Shanghai Bobby came out of his victory in the Sept. 20 Aljamin Stakes at Belmont Park with an injury to a suspensory ligament. That race was his first start since being sidelined with a pelvic fracture when finishing fifth in the Florida Derby at Gulfstream on March 30.

Theirs is a shared heritage, rife with similarities that resonate through much of the racing world. In the cases of the five people profiled here, their common bond is a father who has been a winner – a big winner – during years and years of success, men whose considerable influence permeates not just their racing operation but their family lineage as well.

Following a solid performance in the Pacific Classic Stakes, Richard’s Kid could have been considered a flight risk to try the Breeders’ Cup Classic instead of testing the Marathon.

The division’s de facto leader, Richard’s Kid will indeed pass on the Marathon, but instead of the Classic, the horse’s next stop will be the breeding shed. The 8-year-old Richard’s Kid was retired on Tuesday after he was found to have sustained a slight tendon tear.

If things go well over the next couple of weeks, trainer Doug O’Neill will have himself two starters in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, Private Zone and Goldencents. O’Neill won the Sprint with Thor’s Echo in 2006.

The Virginia Racing Commission on Wednesday approved a set of medication rules and penalty regulations that it had earlier pledged to adopt as part of a regional effort to put in place uniform racing rules along the eastern seaboard, according to its executive director.