ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Yorkton recorded his first graded stakes victory in the Grade 3 Bold Venture Stakes on Sept. 15, and will look to carry his form over to the turf when he makes his next start in the Grade 2, $250,000 Nearctic Stakes over six furlongs, trainer Stuart Simon said.

Yorkton ran in last year’s edition of the Nearctic, finishing seventh over a turf course labeled good. Simon said the condition of the turf was a factor in the result, and noted he scratched Yorkton from the Grade 2 Play the King Stakes on Aug. 25 when the turf that day came up yielding.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Keeneland is a favored venue among locals, because of course it is. And even though he is as well traveled as almost any 50-something on the globe, Kenny McPeek concurs.

“Why not, right?” asked McPeek, who has never forgetten his Lexington roots while building a world-class stable over the last 30-plus years. “There’s nowhere like it.”

Two stakes highlight the Big Fresno Fair’s nine-day run, which begins Thursday.

The $100,000 Harris Farms Stakes, Northern California’s only sprint stakes offering a six-figure purse, will be run Saturday. The six-furlong race for 3-year-olds and up is part of the California-bred Golden State Series.

The $50,000 Bulldog Handicap, also for 3-year-olds and up going 1 1/8 miles, tops the closing-day card on Oct. 14.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Fashion Business will miss the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3 after being diagnosed with an injury over the weekend that will keep him out of training until early 2019, trainer Phil D’Amato said.

D’Amato declined to reveal the injury, but described the setback as a “minor issue.”

“We’ll focus on having him in full form at the beginning of the year,” D’Amato said. “His chances of coming back are very good.”

ARCADIA, Calif. - For the second consecutive year, trainer Simon Callaghan is bound for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies with the expected favorite.

Last year, Moonshine Memories won consecutive Grade 1 races in the Del Mar Debutante at seven furlongs and the Chandelier Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita, but was seventh in the BC Juvenile Fillies at Del Mar.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Though his victory in Saturday’s Grade 1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic at Belmont Park was just his fourth from 20 career starts, Channel Maker had for a long time shown glimpses of being capable at this level.

Last year, Channel Maker won the Breeders’ Stakes, a 1 1/2-mile turf race at Woodbine and the third leg of Canada’s Triple Crown. He was beaten one length in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby last fall and one length in the Grade 1 Kilroe Mile in March.

“He was the victim of some bad trips,” trainer Bill Mott said Sunday. “He’d been coming from way back.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Accelerate and West Coast both emerged from the Awesome Again Stakes on Saturday in good condition, and they will be on similar schedules over the next month, with both expected to have three works at Santa Anita prior to shipping to Churchill Downs the week of the Nov. 3 Breeders’ Cup Classic, their trainers said Sunday morning.

John Sadler, per usual the day after a race, had Accelerate jog for him outside his stable on Sunday morning.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Discreet Lover, the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup winner, was placed on the veterinarian’s list by the New York Racing Association, meaning he must undergo further evaluation and pass certain simple protocols before he is permitted to race again.

Uriah St. Lewis, the owner and trainer of Discreet Lover, said he is not concerned by this development and does plan on running Discreet Lover in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3 provided the horse is doing well.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The multiple Grade 1 winner Elate will miss the Breeders’ Cup due to a splint-bone issue in her right foreleg that has been slow to heal, trainer Bill Mott said Saturday morning.

Elate, second to Abel Tasman in the Grade 1 Personal Ensign at Saratoga on Aug. 25, was being considered for either the Classic or the Distaff.

Also, Hofburg, fourth in the Pennsylvania Derby on Sept. 22, will not be considered for the Breeders’ Cup Classic, Mott said. He could be considered for the Grade 1 Clark Handicap at Churchill in late November.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Twenty-four hours before he was to send out Imperial Hint as a heavy favorite in the Grade 1 Vosburgh Stakes, trainer Luis Carvajal Jr. sent out Spectacular Plum to a 10-1 upset in an off-the-turf $40,000 claiming race at Belmont Park.

The significance of that victory was it resulted in a two-day pick six carryover of $141,055 into Saturday’s 11-race card at Belmont. Ironically, Imperial Hint will likely be a universal single in the Vosburgh, which goes as race 7 and is the second leg of the pick six..