LEXINGTON, Ky. – The 17-day Keeneland fall meet hits its midpoint Wednesday with far less fanfare than it started Oct. 8, but hey, that’s the way it goes. A front-loaded meet necessitated by timing toward the Breeders’ Cup usually lays the Keeneland cupboard bare at some point, and the Wednesday card seems a sampling of that.

Prominent horse owner Mike Pegram has offered to support the city of Del Mar financially in the municipality’s effort to purchase the Del Mar fairgrounds in an exchange for a 55-year lease to operate the Del Mar racetrack on the fairgrounds.

In an interview on Sunday, Pegram said that if the $120 million proposed sale is successful he would like to expand the number of racing days annually from the current seven-week summertime schedule and commit additional revenue toward capital improvements, such as widening the turf course and upgrading the backstretch.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Blind Luck, winner of five graded stakes this year, worked five furlongs in 1:01.20 at Hollywood Park on Sunday for the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic on Nov. 5, a race in which she will be favored.

“She’s right on schedule,” trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said.

As Blind Luck walked off the track, Hollendorfer shouted to jockey Joel Rosario, who was aboard for the workout and was riding the filly on an incline toward the stables.

“What’s your opinion?” Hollendorfer said.

“Very good, easy,” Rosario said.

Heza Wild Guy cruised to a four-length win to capture his third consecutive To Much Coffee at Hoosier Park on Sunday.

The 9-year-old gelding was kept in mid-pack early by jockey Tommy Pompell and then roused in the stretch.

"He is always such a nice horse to ride." Said Pompell, aboard for all three To Much Coffee victories. "I had him fourth sitting behind the pace through the stretch and tried to keep him along the inside. But I didn't want to get him trapped. Then I brought him out in the turn and it was all him from there on."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Duchess Stakes winner Sharp Secretary will go back to the Polytrack on Wednesday night at Woodbine in the $100,000 Ruling Angel Stakes, a 6 1/2-furlong sprint for 3-year-old fillies.

Sharp Secretary commenced her campaign by running second to champion Biofuel in the April 10 Star Shoot Stakes. She blossomed in the summer, when she won an optional claimer with a 92 Beyer Speed Figure and the Duchess with an 87 Beyer. She defeated six shippers in the seven-furlong Duchess.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Miss Keller, one of just two Woodbine-based entrants in the E.P. Taylor, tried her best to hold the fort but wound up a length back as the runner-up to France’s Reggane in Sunday’s Grade 1 filly and mare turf feature.

Miss Keller, trained by Roger Attfield, is owned by Three Chimneys Racing LLC and is headed for the 1 3/8-mile Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Churchill Downs.

With an emphasis on 2-year-olds, the best of which are being pointed to track owner MI Developments’s bonus programs for 3-year-olds next year, one might expect Golden Gate Fields to come up with a clever title for the 45-day meet that opens Wednesday.

The Meet of Great Expectations? The Meet of Future Stars?

“We’re just calling it the 2010 fall meeting,” said Golden Gate Fields general manager Robert Hartman.

Even without a fancy moniker, Hartman says, “It should be a great meet.”

Fastation continued her stakes tear on Sunday, when she outgamed Angel At Home for a half-length win in the $55,000 Permian Basin for 2-year-old fillies at Zia Park. It was the fourth straight stakes win for Fastation.

She began her streak in July in the 5 1/2-furlong division of the $100,000 Texas Stallion Stakes at Lone Star Park. Fastation then won the $85,000 Juvenile Fillies at Mountaineer Park on Aug. 7, and the six-furlong division of the $100,000 Texas Stallion Stakes at Retama Park on Sept. 25.

Favored Quindici Man unleashed a strong late kick to wear down Slew the Man and capture the $53,950 Bull Dog Stakes Sunday at the Big Fresno Fair.
Quindici Man, stakes-placed in his past two starts and second in the Grade 3 Inglewood earlier this year, was last on the second turn before responding to Ricky Frazier’s urging in scoring his first victory of 2010 in the 1 1/8-mile race. He paid $3.80.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Since Go Forth North beat maidens at Del Mar on Aug. 7, she has run in four stakes with increasingly high expectations from co-owner Shawn Turner and trainer A.C. Avila

“A.C. made me a promise when she broke her maiden that she would get better and better,” Turner said.

Avila’s summertime forecast has led to two stakes wins, including the Grade 3, $100,000 Harold Ramser Sr. Handicap at Hollywood Park on Sunday.