LEXINGTON, Ky. – If not for last-to-first rallies by My Conquestadory and Emollient, favorites would have been blanked in the nine graded stakes that comprised the FallStars events on opening weekend of the Keeneland fall meet.

My Conquestadory took the Darley Alcibiades on Friday at 6-5, while Emollient was 2-1 in winning the Juddmonte Spinster on Sunday. Favorites in the other seven stakes all went down to defeat, most notably 1-2 choices Wise Dan in the Shadwell Turf Mile and Groupie Doll in the Thoroughbred Club of America.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Josie Carroll’s barn had a very productive hour and change here Sunday, winning the Grade 3, $174,400 Grey Stakes with Ami’s Holiday and, two races later, taking the Grade 3, $155,100 Durham Cup with James Street.

Ami’s Holiday, a 2-year-old colt making just his second start in the 1 1/16-mile Grey, earned his first stakes victory, while James Street, a 6-year-old horse making his 27th career start in the 1 1/8-mile Durham Cup, got his third stakes win.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The Breeders’ Cup program at Santa Anita on Nov. 2 is turning into Ladies’ Day for trainer Tom Proctor.

Proctor has the 5-year-old mare Marketing Mix as a leading domestic contender for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf that afternoon. On the same program, Proctor plans to run the 3-year-old Pontchatrain and the 4-year-old Purim’s Dancer in the Grade 3, $100,000 Sen. Ken Maddy Stakes for fillies and mares on the hillside turf course.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Mark Casse said My Conquestadory, the flashy winner of the Darley Alcibiades Stakes on the opening-day program Friday at Keeneland, will train on dirt for the first time this week as he considers the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies for the unbeaten filly.

ELMONT, N.Y. – While two graded turf stakes for juveniles highlight Sunday’s 11-race program at Belmont Park, there is a pretty good $100,000 overnight stakes for dirt sprinters that should garner some attention as well.

The $100,000 Duck Dance, which could be a prep for the Grade 3, $200,000 Bold Ruler here on Oct. 26, drew a salty nine-horse field, led by the multiple stakes-winning 8-year-old Caixa Eletronica.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – At least one smart-aleck made this hypothetical wagering prop on Twitter on the number of winners that trainer Gennadi Dorochenko would send out at the Keeneland fall meet: one-half.

Well, less than two minutes into the 17-day meet, the “over” was a winner. As many of the Keeneland faithful were still filing through the gates for the opening-day card Friday – and the vast majority of those already here watched in stunned silence – the Dorochenko-trained Araksia rolled to a 1 1/4-length victory, returning $41.80.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – While perennial leaders Ken and Sarah Ramsey and Frank Calabrese figure to battle it out for the top spot in the owners race this winter at Gulfstream Park, there could be a new force to reckon with in the division, the ever-expanding White Wabbit Wacing LLC.

The Breeders’ Cup Sprint is one of a handful of options the connections of Wine Police are mulling over following his win in last weekend’s $150,000 Remington Park Sprint Cup. Wine Police is back at his Zia Park base in Hobbs, N.M., with races in Louisiana, New York, and Pennsylvania also on his radar, trainer Henry Dominguez said Friday.

“The Breeders’ Cup is a consideration,” he said. “We have a lot of spots we can go to and haven’t made a definite decision. We’ll come up with a plan in the next week or so.”

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – It looks like Amadeo Perez is going to be the leading rider at Hastings for the second straight year when the meet ends Oct. 14, but he won’t be a runaway winner like last year.

In 2012, he won 95 races, 27 more than Fernando Perez, who finished a clear second. This year, the wins have been spread around a lot more, and Perez heads into the final two weekends of racing with 56 wins, just five more than Scott Williams. The difference between Perez and Richard Hamel, seventh in the standings, is just 13 wins.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Another day, another pick-six carryover at Belmont Park.

For a third consecutive card, the pick six was not hit at Belmont Thursday, creating a carryover of $485,964 into Friday’s program.

There are 10 races on Friday’s card, so the pick six does not begin until race 5 (2:58 p.m. Eastern). Five of the six races in the sequence are scheduled for the turf. There is no rain in the forecast so the turf should be firm.

There was a carryover of $165,205 entering Thursday’s card and an additional $562,787 was wagered into the pool.