LEXINGTON, Ky. – Even with the young folk, it’s a local tradition far more palatable than, say, burning couches. Everybody gets all dressed up in their autumn finest to see and be seen at Keeneland, where a 17-day fall meet will get away to a flying start Friday.

A huge weekend that most of Lexington has had circled on their calendars for months begins Friday with a 10-race card highlighted by the Grade 1 Alcibiades and Grade 2 Phoenix, the first of 10 FallStars Weekend stakes and the first of 10 Win and You’re In races to be run toward the Nov. 5-6 Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Mark Casse is among the leading advocates for the Tapeta surface unveiled here last week. So it should have come as no surprise the Hall of Fame trainer wasted little time taking advantage of the new track, sending out All Quality to a victory in Sunday’s main event.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Part of the fallout from the recent suspensions of five locally based trainers due to clenbuterol violations centers on the fate of the graded stakes-placed Bajan Girl, who is being pointed to either the Grade 1 Spinster at Keeneland or Grade 1 Beldame at Belmont Park.

LOUSIVILLE, Ky. – Tyler Gaffalione earned his fifth straight meet riding title at Churchill Downs when booting home Liberty Isle in the 117th and last race of the 12-day, dirt-only meet that ended Sunday at Louisville track. Gaffalione, the leading jockey at every meet since 2020 spring, needed four Sunday winners to edge Brian Hernandez Jr. by a 16-15 count.

Ken McPeek was the leading trainer with 10 wins, marking the third time McPeek has won or shared a Churchill title. The partnership of WinStar Farm and Siena Farm led the owners’ standings with three wins.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Things were pretty quiet Monday at Keeneland, but just you wait. More horses and far more people will be here to open the fall meet, one that begins Friday with the traditional three-day FallStars Weekend.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Going to Vegas and Luck gave trainer Richard Baltas a career-first 1-2 finish in a Grade 1 race in Saturday’s $302,000 Rodeo Drive Stakes for fillies and mares at Santa Anita.

As of Sunday, only Going to Vegas is definite for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 6, having earned a fees-paid berth with the Rodeo Drive win.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Robert Tiller said four-time Canadian champion male sprinter Pink Lloyd exited his Sept. 25 victory in the Grade 3 Bold Venture in spry fashion and is planning on running the popular gelding twice more at the Woodbine meet.

Nine-year-old Pink Lloyd finished a troubled second to Souper Stonehenge in each of his first two starts this year in a pair of Grade 3 stakes, the Jacques Cartier and Vigil. Normally a mid-pack closer, he inherited the lead in the paceless Bold Venture and won by a measured three-quarters of a length over a pesky Lucky Curlin.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bring on the world.

That was trainer Peter Miller’s slightly defiant message on Sunday, a day after Mo Forza won the Grade 2 City of Hope Mile on turf at Santa Anita in his final start prior to the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Del Mar on Nov. 6.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Leah Gyarmati was happy to see Sail By show a new dimension in upsetting Saturday’s Grade 2 Miss Grillo Stakes by a length over Kinchen. She believes that will serve her well in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Nov. 5 at Del Mar.

Sail By sat an up-close second to a slow pace and still showed a strong late kick that she did when she came from off the pace to win a maiden race sprinting here in the summer. She won the Miss Grillo by a length over Kinchen.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Jack Christopher exited his victory in Saturday’s Grade 1 Champagne Stakes in good order, according to Dan Stupp, the assistant to trainer Chad Brown, and the unbeaten 2-year-old will be pointed to the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Nov. 5 at Del Mar.