As well as Highway Robber has performed in his last two races, a narrow defeat in the $2 million Turf Cup at Kentucky Downs and a win Friday in the Sycamore Stakes at Keeneland, trainer Brian Lynch has reason to believe the best is yet to come.

Just a 4-year-old, Highway Robber has only raced 11 times, and only in his three most recent starts has he gotten out to distances that best suit him, 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 miles.

“He’s definitely found his niche,” said Lynch, who trains the Hard Spun gelding for Susan and Jim Hill.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A Breeders’ Cup sprint race may be on Forbidden Kingdom’s schedule despite not having raced since April.

On Sunday, trainer Richard Mandella said the BC Sprint at six furlongs on dirt and the BC Turf Sprint at five furlongs are “both a thought” with the 5-year-old Forbidden Kingdom.

Mandella acknowledged that Forbidden Kingdom may not be selected to race, particularly for the BC Turf Sprint, which often draws a full field.

A three-time stakes winner on dirt and turf, Forbidden Kingdom has been plagued by foot issues this year, Mandella said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Storm the Court, upset winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita in 2019, recently returned to trainer Peter Eurton’s stable in California and may start later this fall before going to stud in California in 2025.

Storm the Court will stand at Eclipse Thoroughbred Training Center in Buellton, Calif.

Four-time stakes winner Muth worked a half-mile in 47.40 seconds on Monday at Santa Anita, moving closer to a scheduled start in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 2 at Del Mar.

The exercise was Muth’s first workout since the 3-year-old colt finished last of six in the Grade 1 California Crown on Sept. 28 at Santa Anita, a loss trainer Bob Baffert described a day later as leaving him “very puzzled.”

Keeneland-based multiple graded stakes winner Gear Jockey has been retired, according to Lyndsay Delello, assistant trainer to Rusty Arnold. Delello posted on social media that the 7-year-old horse, a Calumet Farm homebred, retires “sound and healthy.”

Gear Jockey put together a record of 27-5-2-6 and earned more than $1.6 million, winning two graded stakes and placing in five others. He was most recently 12th in the Grade 2 Woodford on Oct. 5.

While Keeneland’s fall meet is front-loaded with its major stakes to provide well-timed Breeders’ Cup preps, eight stakes still remain on this fall schedule, beginning with the Grade 2, $350,000 Raven Run and Grade 3, $300,000 Perryville on Saturday, and the Grade 3, $300,000 Dowager on Sunday.

Next Friday, Keeneland cards the Grade 2, $350,000 Valley View and the $200,000 Myrtlewood. On closing day, Saturday, Oct. 26, the highlights are the Grade 2, $350,000 Fayette, Grade 3, $600,000 Bryan Station, and $200,000 Bowman Mill.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Hot Fudge, a three-time listed stakes-winning female sprinter, is cataloged to be sold at the Keeneland November sale and was scheduled to leave trainer Linda Rice’s Belmont Park barn on Monday.

Hot Fudge, a 5-year-old daughter of Liam’s Map, reeled off consecutive stakes victories in the Garland of Roses, Interborough, and Correction during the winter at Aqueduct. While she hasn’t won since, Hot Fudge did finish third in the Bed o’ Roses and Vagrancy. She had a record of 8-1-4 from 18 starts and earned $577,105.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A plan hatched roughly 18 months ago will come to fruition for Amelia Green next month when the current assistant to Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher begins training on her own.

Green, 31, a former jockey, has worked for Pletcher for about seven years. She has been an exercise rider, foreman, and traveling assistant. She has been on and/or worked with such notable runners as Life Is Good, Malathaat, Nest, and Audible just to name a few.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Back from Newmarket where he purchased two well-bred yearlings at last week’s Tattersalls auction, trainer Tom Morley is making plans for some of his current stable stars.

Donegal Momentum, who won the Gio Ponti Stakes on Oct. 3 at Aqueduct, will be pointed to the Grade 3, $200,000 Hill Prince Stakes on Nov. 9 at Aqueduct. There is a chance he could be re-routed to the Grade 1, $300,000 Hollywood Derby on Nov. 30 at Del Mar.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Chad Brown won both graded stakes run over the weekend at Aqueduct, but there were two other winners he had who may have overshadowed those successes.

Brown won juvenile maiden races with Keewaydin, a son of Instagrand, and Fully Subscribed, a daughter of Tiz the Law. Those horses are now likely stakes-bound in the coming months.