Sunday at Keeneland is a big day for turf fans, and the centerpiece is the 30th running of the Franklin Stakes, a Grade 2 at 5.5 furlongs on the turf for fillies and mares carrying a $400,000 purse. Eight horses are entered. The pace setup is interesting, the Baffert angle is generating real convers...
The $750,000 Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup is the marquee fall turf race for fillies and mares in North America, and the 2026 edition at Keeneland has the kind of field that rewards serious handicapping. Eleven runners are lined up for the 1 1/8-mile turf test, and the pace scenario, surf...
Saturday at Keeneland is exactly what the Fall Meet was built for. Eleven races, a packed grandstand, and a $750,000 Grade 1 at the top of the card that has the sharp money talking. The Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup closes out the afternoon, and between the chalk at 5-2 and a French shipper sitti...
Saturday at Belmont Park gives you two legitimate graded-caliber turf stakes for 3-year-olds on the same card, and that kind of setup does not come around every weekend. Race 8 is the inaugural $175,000 Bricks and Mortar Stakes, seven furlongs on the Widener turf. Race 10 is the Grade 3, $200,000 Hi...
Nitrogen is gearing up for another run in the Breeders' Cup, with Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse hoping the third time is the charm. The 4-year-old filly will be one of the stars at the 43rd Breeders' Cup at Keeneland on Oct. 30-31, headlining the field for the $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1)...
Super Saturday is in the books. The Champagne went one way, the Breeders' Futurity went another, and the picture heading into the October 30 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Keeneland is sharper now than it was two weeks ago. The only real wrinkle: the horse who might have been your top choice just took hi...
The dust has settled at Longchamp. The Arc trophy is back in Francis Graffard's hands. And right now, every serious turf bettor in the country is doing the same thing: figuring out which Europeans are actually getting on the plane to Keeneland and how dangerous they are at 1.5 miles on good ground i...
Two days. Fourteen Grade 1 races. Keeneland in the fall. If there is a better two-day stretch on the American racing calendar to play multi-race exotics, nobody has found it yet. The 2026 Breeders' Cup gives serious bettors a genuine opportunity to build differentiated tickets in massive pools, and ...
One Saturday changed everything. On October 3rd, three Grade 1 juvenile races dropped coast to coast, and the Road to the Roses suddenly has names worth circling. U.S.S. Valor destroyed the Champagne Stakes field at Belmont Park by six and a half lengths. Hughes kept his perfect record intact out at...
The 43rd running of the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup goes Saturday at Keeneland, and this year's edition is one of the more layered 11-filly fields we have seen in a while. You have got a dominant Canadian classic winner making her first stateside Grade 1 turf start, a sharp Del Mar Oaks winner ...
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