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The 3-year-old filly Brightwork will see how she stacks up against the filly and mare sprint division as she makes her first start against older in the $350,000 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes (G2) Oct. 5 at Keeneland.

Maiden Watch: Week of Sept. 23-29

Ferocious leads an 11-horse field in the 1 1/16-mile Breeders' Futurity (G1) after running second in the Hopeful Stakes (G1) at Saratoga.

Keeneland, in collaboration with TJC Innovations, will introduce a new Dynamic Pedigree for the upcoming November Breeding Stock Sale that enables users to customize different aspects of a horse's pedigree that are of interest.

Tony Cissell has been promoted to the position of general manager and chief operating officer. Chris Baker resigned as COO to start Baker Thoroughbred Advisory.

The 6-year-old son of Pioneerof the Nile is a grade 3 winner out of a deep family. He will be offered at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale as Hip 3083 in the Lane's End consignment.

Registration has opened for Thoroughbred racing's biggest live-money handicapping tournament, the 2024 Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge.

The catalog will include dispersals of Stuart S. Janney III, the estate of John Hendrickson, Siena Farm, and Solera Farm (Ed Seltzer). Among the horses in the catalog are the first mares in foal to Cody's Wish and the first weanlings by Flightline.

The Retired Racehorse Project announced the list of former breeders, owners, trainers, stallion farms and other connections participating in Makeover Champions, a new initiative to encourage more support of Thoroughbreds in careers beyond racing.

The Frankel colt is out of the mare Tisa River. She is a sibling to Iridessa, winner of the Breeders Cup Filly and Mare Turf, and Order of Australia, winner of the Breeders Cup Mile.

Syndicator Wylie Dalziel has welcomed the arrival of a "silver lining" to the injury-enforced retirement of Autumn Angel after the Australian Oaks (G1) winner was sold Oct. 1 for AU$1.225 million (approximately US$846,493).

Carson's Run, Legend of Time, and Deterministic—1-2-3 in the 1 3/16-mile Saratoga Derby Invitational (G1T) Aug. 11 at Saratoga—square off over 1 3/8 miles while facing four others in the Oct. 5 Jockey Club Derby Invitational (G3T) at Aqueduct.

The $1 million California Crown (G1) at Santa Anita Park on Sept. 28 caused movement in week 36 of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Top Thoroughbred Poll as winner Subsanador joined the Top 10 in fourth place.

Dollars & Sense with Frank Angst

While it long has been known that many gray horses eventually turn white to the eye with age, scientists recently discovered a genetic explanation behind this color transformation.

The groom of the Nearctic Stakes (G2) winner and of the best turned-out horse in each stakes race Oct. 5 will receive a TAA gift bag sponsored by local owner and breeder Josham Farms (Ted Burnett). ​

The $600,000 Alcibiades Stakes (G1), offering the winner a spot in the Nov. 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) thanks to the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series, features a rematch of the top finishers in Saratoga's Spinaway Stakes (G1).

Kentucky Derby (G1) third-place finisher Forever Young will prep for his return to America in the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) in the Japan Dirt Classic Oct. 2 at Oi Racecourse.

Jockey Wesley Ho picked up his 1,000th win Sept. 29 while rallying from the back of the pack aboard Bigdaddysboy in the sixth race at Laurel Park.

The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority has established a Veterinary Advisory Committee that will be made up of regulatory and private practice racetrack veterinarians from around the nation.