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Four of the six 2-year-old runners in Saturday's GI American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita had graded stakes experience, but it was one of the two maiden winners making his stakes debut who came home with the victory and secured a 'Win and You're In' spot for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Del Mar in four weeks time. Intrepido (c, 2, Maximus Mischief–Overly Indulgent, by Pleasantly Perfect), named a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' in his Aug. 23 Del Mar win, rated and showed fight in between horses before finishing strong to capture his first graded win and punch his ticket to championship day.

When the gates sprang, Intrepido jumped sharply, but jockey Hector Berrios eased him back slightly as $1.15-million Keeneland buy Kristofferson (Nyquist) and GSW & GISP Desert Gate (Omaha Beach)–one on either side of Intrepido–were both intent on the lead. As the two favorites–Desert Gate at 4-5 and Kristofferson at 9-5–vied for supremacy through :22.83 and :46.76 fractions, it was Desert Gate, a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard', holding the edge at every call while Intrepido was in tight between horses behind them and even forced at one point to take up slightly off heels.

“It was a bit of a complicated race at the start,” said Berrios. “I tried to go to the front, but I saw [Desert Gate] break first, so I settled into second. From the first turn, I had to ease back a little. And again around 600 meters I had to hold.”

On the turn, Desert Gate dismissed Kristofferson as Intrepido went around the latter, tipping several paths wide to avoid him and bumping soundly with GI Del Mar Futurity third Civil Liberty (Independence Hall). While all that was happening in the middle of the track, GIII Del Mar Juvenile Turf runner-up Plutarch (Into Mischief) cut the corner to challenge Desert Gate and gradually wore him down in a long battle, finally getting his head in front a sixteenth from home. Plutarch looked to have it won in the last strides, but Intrepido found another gear in the final sixteenth to catch the dueling pair yards from the wire. He flew by late on the outside, getting the 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.67.

“When I made my move to the outside he responded,” continued Berrios, “although not very strongly at first. But when I asked him again, he responded and produced an impressive change of pace and flew down the final stretch. He's an amazing horse. I'm very proud of the effort he showed today.”

Intrepido was a $385,000 purchase at the OBS April sale by Michael Pender for Dutch Girl Holdings and Irving Ventures. He was the only member of the field to have previously won at a mile and one of only two not trained by Bob Baffert.

“He's a nice horse, a really nice horse,” said trainer Jeff Mullins.

Intrepido debuted July 26 at Del Mar with a fourth sprinting 5 1/2 furlongs behind unbeaten $3-million OBS March topper, 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard', and GI Del Mar Futurity winner Brant (Gun Runner), then got his own 'Rising Star' title and first win going a mile over that same surface Aug. 23 after he dueled at the start and pulled clear impressively in the lane. He is not nominated to the Breeders' Cup, but is eligible for nomination for the $2-million Juvenile at $100,000.

Pedigree Notes:

Maximus Mischief is the sire of four graded winners from his three crops to race, including his first-crop runner and MGISW Raging Torrent, whose retirement was announced this summer and who will be a new stallion next season at Lane's End. Maximus Mischief, who stands at Spendthrift alongside his sire, Into Mischief, has 14 black-type winners.

Sierra Fria Farm bred Intrepido in Kentucky out of the placed mare Overly Indulgent, who went through an auction ring once, only to be a $14,000 RNA at the Fasig-Tipton New York yearling sale in 2013. She hails from the same family as 2008 GIII LeComte Stakes winner and GII Arkansas Derby second Z Fortune (Siphon {Brz}) and has now produced one of the 16 stakes winners out of daughters of Pleasantly Perfect. While Overly Indulgent and her dam were bred in New York, some of their immediate tail-female ancestors were bred in Minnesota, South Carolina, and Indiana, not always spots commonly known to produce an eventual Grade I winner among a mare's descendants.

Overly Indulgent has a yearling colt by Caracaro, an Apr. 15-foaled filly by Fulsome, and was covered by Maximus Mischief once again for next term.

#2 INTREPIDO ($19.60) had a strong kick late to get up and win the $300,000 American Pharoah Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita. The son of Maximus Mischief (@spendthriftfarm) earned a spot in the @FanDuel @BreedersCup Juvenile (G1). @HIBerrios was up for @Jmullinsracing. pic.twitter.com/Hi6ZaX19ou

— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) October 4, 2025

Saturday, Santa Anita Park
AMERICAN PHAROAH S. PRESENTED BY DK HORSE-GI, $300,500, Santa Anita, 10-4, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 1:43.67, ft.
1–INTREPIDO, 122, r, 2, by Maximus Mischief
      1st Dam: Overly Indulgent, by Pleasantly Perfect
      2nd Dam: Wittenberg Miss, by Smart Strike
      3rd Dam: Fortunate Faith, by Fortunate Prospect
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN, 1ST GRADE I WIN. ($30,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP; $385,000 2yo '25 OBSAPR). O-Dutch Girl Holdings LLC and Irving Ventures LLC; B-Sierra Fria Farm LLC (KY); T-Jeff Mullins; J-Hector Isaac Berrios. $180,000. 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $232,800. Werk Nick Rating: F. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree or free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Desert Gate, 122, c, 2, Omaha Beach–Theogony, by Curlin. ($125,000 Wlg '23 KEENOV; $100,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP; $260,000 2yo '25 OBSMAR). O-Pegram, Michael E., Watson, Karl and Weitman, Paul; B-Twin Oaks Bloodstock (KY); T-Bob Baffert. $60,000. 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard'
3–Plutarch, 122, c, 2, Into Mischief–Stellar Wind, by Curlin.
1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. O-Magnier, Mrs. John, Tabor, Michael B. and Smith, Derrick; B-Orpendale/Chelston/Wynatt (KY); T-Bob Baffert. $36,000.
Margins: 3/4, NO, 5 3/4. Odds: 8.80, 0.90, 8.30.
Also Ran: Civil Liberty, Balboa, Kristofferson.
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Turf distaffers trained by Chad Brown had taken the seven most recent renewals of the GI First Lady Stakes at Keeneland, and the New York native looked to have a fair chance to extend that streak in the Bluegrass on Saturday afternoon. But it was Colebrook Farm's Simply in Front (Summer Front) split rivals inside the final eighth of a mile and found the line first to cause a 13-1 upset in a bunched finish and snap the Brown domination, however temporarily.

The mount of Ben Curtis, the $115,000 Keeneland September graduate drifted back through the field and secured a foothold at the fence worse than centerfield as longshot Raqiya (Ire) (Blue Point {Ire}) led through an opening half in :47.07.

Racing with just one rival behind entering the final three-eighths of a mile, Simply In Front–a very good second to Ag Bullet (Twirling Candy) in the GII Kentucky Downs Ladies' Turf Sprint over 6 1/2 panels in her most recent appearance back on Aug. 30–slipstreamed the lesser-preferred of the Brown entry Segesta (Ghostzapper) into the lane, dove down to the inside of that one in upper stretch, hit the front late and held off a resurgent Segesta for the victory. Choisya (GB) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) sat a trip similar to the one that resulted in her mild upset of this track's GI Jenny Wiley Stakes in April and led late before settling for third.

The First Lady marks the first American top-level success for Curtis, who rode with great success over the winter at the Fair Grounds and at the recently completed meeting at Colonial Downs.

“It's unbelievable. I can't put it into words, to be honest with you, and getting it for [trainer] Eddie [Kenneally] as well,” Curtis said. “I first came over for him years ago. He used to tell me I was breezing them wrong, but I think we finally got something right! To do it for him, all the team there, Catherine [Mrs. Kenneally] and the kids, it means the world to me. She's a really nice filly and everything went perfect today.”

Runner-up to She Feels Pretty (Karakontie {Jpn}) in the GI Natalma Stakes at two and winner of the age-restricted Music City Stakes last September, Simply in Front belied odds of 15-1 in the GII Distaff Turf Mile at Churchill May 3, but was only fifth to Dynamic Pricing (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) in an easy-ground renewal of the GI Just A Game Stakes at Saratoga June 6. Narrowly best in the Kentucky Downs Preview Ladies' Turf Mile at Ellis Aug. 3, she was doing her best work in the late stages last time at Kentucky Downs, where she failed to catch the classy Ag Bullet by just three-parts of a length.

Pedigree Notes:

Simply In Front is the first Grade I winner for Summer Front and she is the seventh top-level scorer out of a daughter of Blame, his fourth such winner in 2025. His three previous Grade I winners as a broodmare sire this term include Hope Road (Quality Road, Ballerina Stakes), World Beater (Oscar Performance, Saratoga Derby) and Kilwin (Twirling Candy, Test Stakes).

Under the banner of his Miacomet Bloodstock, William Harrigan purchased the placed Complicated for $110,000 at Keeneland November in 2016 and her enviable produce record has made her progeny increasingly popular from a commercial standpoint. Simply In Front is the mare's second offspring to succeed at the Grade I level in as many years, joining And One More Time, winner of the 2024 Natalma Stakes. A half-sister to the dam of this year's GIII Matron Stakes victress Final Accord (War of Will) from the same sire line as the First Lady winner, Complicated is the dam of the one-raced 2-year-old filly Aporia (War Front), a $300,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling, as well as a yearling colt by Golden Pal already named Roosevelt who fetched $475,000 from Twin Creeks Farm at this year's Keeneland September Sale.

Complicated was barren to Not This Time for 2025 and returned to that stallion this past breeding season.

#4 SIMPLY IN FRONT ($28.24) gets up to win the $800,000 First Lady Stakes (G1) at @Keeneland. This is the first Grade 1 win for the four-year-old Summer Front filly. @kenneallyracing trains, @_benacurtis up. pic.twitter.com/dYiChKbKz7

— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) October 4, 2025

Saturday, Keeneland
FIRST LADY S.-GI, $776,750, Keeneland, 10-4, 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 1:34.76, fm.
1–SIMPLY IN FRONT, 125, f, 4, by Summer Front
    1st Dam: Complicated, by Blame
    2nd Dam: Consequence, by El Prado (Ire)
    3rd Dam: Educated Risk, by Mr. Prospector
1ST GRADE I WIN. ($115,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP). O-Colebrook Farms; B-William Harrigan & Mike Pietrangelo (KY); T-Eddie Kenneally; J-Ben Curtis. $458,800. Lifetime Record: 16-6-4-0, $2,868,611. *1/2 to Honor D Lady (Honor Code), MGSW-USA, MGSP-Can, $745,942; 1/2 to Churchtown (Air Force Blue), SW-USA, SP-Can, $373,259; 1/2 to And One More Time (Omaha Beach), GISW, $310,422. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree or free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Segesta, 125, f, 4, by Ghostzapper
   1st Dam: Antonoe (GISW-USA, GSW-Fr, $565,377), by First Defence
   2nd Dam: Ixora, by Dynaformer
   3rd Dam: Imroz, by Nureyev
O/B-Juddmonte (KY); T-Chad C. Brown. $148,000.
3–Choisya (GB), 125, m, 5, by Night of Thunder (Ire)
   1st Dam: Fragrancy (Ire) (SP-Eng, $144,080), by Singspiel (Ire)
   2nd Dam: Zibet (GB), by Kris (GB)
   3rd Dam: Zonda (GB), by Fabulous Dancer
O-Rabbah Bloodstock LLC; B-Rabbah Bloodstock Limited (GB); T-Simon Crisford. $60,125.
Margins: NK, NK, HD. Odds: 13.12, 6.61, 4.44.
Also Ran: Deep Satin, Pin Up Betty, Heredia (GB), Dynamic Pricing (Ire), Ozara (Ire), Jody's Pride, Raqiya (Ire), Nanda Dea (Arg). Scratched: Aussie Girl (Ire), Crevalle d'Oro, Great Generation (Ire), Simmering (GB), Special Wan (Ire).
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As a 9-year-old, Khaadem has won his share of some top flight races in England for Mrs. Fitriani Hay over the course of his illustrious career, which has netted the gelding nearly $2.5-million in earnings. On Saturday in the Woodford Stakes, the venerable Thoroughbred once again got his picture taken with a thrilling come-from-behind victory at Keeneland.

Trained by Charlie Hills, Khaadem highlights include during his 6-year-old season scores in the G3 Betfair Palace House Stakes at Newmarket that April and in the G2 King George Qatar Stakes at Goodwood in late July. The pièce de résistance for the turf sprint specialist came when he won consecutive editions of the G1 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes during the Royal Meeting at Ascot in 2023 and 2024. More recently, the dark bay came back to the U.S. at the end of August for the second year in a row to contest the GII Mint Kentucky Turf Sprint at a Kentucky Downs–the result was a third-place finish.

Tabbed as a 3-1 shot here, Khaadem did not do himself any favors at the break when he blew the start, which put him last up the backstretch. As 'TDN Rising Star', presented by Hagyard, Doncho (Mo Town) continued to make the pace through the far turn, Frankie Dettori's mount began to tip to the outside for a run down the center of the course. Firing on all cylinders and looking every bit a pro who has fought many a sprint battle on the grass heading for home, Khaadem's late move won the day and earned him a trip to the new stakes winner's circle at Keeneland. Arthur Hancock III's homebred Script was the runner-up.

“He's [Khaadem] been training here since [finishing third in the Mint Kentucky Turf Sprint-G2 at] Kentucky Downs a month ago, so he is into a nice routine,” said trainer Charlie Hills. “I was a little bit worried about how quiet he was, to be honest with you. He's 9-years-old, he's won some fantastic races in his career and I just think he likes being out here.

“He's just gotten used to the different way of training,” he said. “I think it's just sparked him up. Ed Vaughan–we go back a long way–he and I looked after him the last few weeks and he did a fantastic job. He's got his old spark back, so hopefully we might look at the Breeders' Cup in a few weeks' time.”

Pedigree Notes:

Dark Angel (Ire) (by Acclamation {GB}) needs no introduction internationally as an acclaimed sire. Of course, the stateside graded runners he claims includes the likes of Raging Bull (Fr), Althiqa, Hunt and Heredia.

The dam of 11 foals, six to race and four winners, White Daffodil is responsible for Khadeem's older full-brother Long Out Island (Ire), who placed in three English group races during his career. The winner's dam is also produced a current yearling filly by Supremacy (Ire) and a filly by Chaldean (GB) who is now a weanling. She was not reported as bred for next spring.

Watch the full replay as KHAADEM (IRE) surges from the back of the pack to win the Woodford (G2) presented by @FanDuelTV! pic.twitter.com/rNSfPg9vwP

— Keeneland Racing (@keenelandracing) October 4, 2025

Saturday, Keeneland
WOODFORD S. PRESENTED BY FANDUEL-GII, $339,075, Keeneland, 10-4, 3yo/up, 5 1/2fT, 1:02.18, fm.
1–KHAADEM (IRE), 121, g, 9, by Dark Angel (Ire)
      1st Dam: White Daffodil (Ire), by Footstepsinthesand (GB)
      2nd Dam: Sparky's Song (GB), by Electric (GB)
      3rd Dam: Daring Ditty (GB), by Daring March (GB)
(750,000gns Ylg '17 TATOCT). O-Mrs. Fitriani Hay; B-Yeomanstown Stud (IRE); T-Charlie Hills; J-Lanfranco Dettori. $179,025. Lifetime Record: 42-10-3-5, $2,615,444. *Full to Log Out Island (Ire), SW & MGSP-Eng, GSP-Ire, SP-Fr, $250,585. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree or free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Script, 121, g, 6, Algorithms–Dilly, by First Samurai. 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. O/B-Stone Farm (KY); T-George R. Arnold II. $77,000.
3–Joe Shiesty, 121, g, 4, Air Force Blue–Ready to Unleash, by More Than Ready. 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($16,000 Ylg '22 KEEJAN). O-Foster Family Racing, Reynolds, Lonnie, Mills, Vicki and Coomes, Donald; B-Rodney E. Orr (KY); T-Eric N. Foster. $38,500.
Margins: NK, HD, NK. Odds: 3.27, 22.01, 5.91.
Also Ran: Governor Sam, Arrest Me Red, Outlaw Kid, Doncho, Charcoal. Scratched: World Record.
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by Jill Williams & J.N. Campbell

A spectacular Fall Stars Weekend both continues and concludes Sunday at Keeneland, highlighted by the GI Juddmonte Spinster Stakes, a 'Win and You're In' event for the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff Nov. 1. While entries may seem sparse for such an historic race with a $650,000 purse, they pack a punch with the reigning Horse of the Year, Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna), making her first start in front of the home crowd since her open daylight debut over this surface at this meet two years ago. The 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' has done nothing wrong since, adding the Distaff, the Kentucky Oaks, and eight other graded notches to her belt, most of them at the highest level. If there's any knock against her, it's the perception she may not be as brilliant this season at four as she was last year during her championship campaign. She threw in the only clunker of her 15-race career in May when she finished off the board for the first time in her life in the GI La Troienne. She has since captured the GII Fleur de Lis and GI Personal Ensign Stakes in performances that perhaps weren't as visually impressive as her usual, but with Beyer Figures (96 and 100, respectively) on par with all of her other top efforts–save the 111 Beyer she delivered when second by a nose in last year's GI Travers Stakes against the boys–she hasn't slipped on paper.

Owned by John G. Sikura's Hill 'n' Dale Thoroughbred Holdings, Sherri McPeek's Magdalena Racing, Mark Edwards, and breeder Judy Hicks, Thorpedo Anna shipped in from conditioner Kenny McPeek's Churchill Downs barn Thursday and got her first look at the new paddock Friday morning before visiting the track.

“Everywhere she goes, she walks in like she owns it,” said McPeek. “She is unfazed by [everything]. To bring her back here at this stage in the Spinster, it's just a real special race to run in.”

McPeek has won the 1 1/8-mile Spinster twice previously with Take Charge Lady in 2002-03.

“Certainly, [Thorpedo Anna] is the most popular horse I have ever trained,” added McPeek. “Swiss Skydiver was a fantastic filly. I thought I'd never find a better filly than Take Charge Lady, but Swiss Skydiver was. And now this one. I might be getting a reputation with the girls.”

Tabbed at 8-5 on the morning line, Thorpedo Anna will have Flavien Prat aboard for the first time. Prat is subbing for regular rider Brian Hernandez, Jr., who has ridden her in every previous start but was seriously injured Sept. 21 in a spill at Churchill.

Nitorgen at the Spa | Sarah Andrew

Only one 3-year-old signed up to try her elders, but it's one of the leaders of the sophomore filly division in D J Stable's homebred Nitrogen (Medaglia d'Oro). A classy turf performer with multiple graded wins on the lawn as well as multiple Grade I placings–including a nose second in July in the GI Belmont Oaks–Nitrogen has been otherworldly in her two dirt starts. She obliterated the off-the-turf and in-the-slop GIII Wonder Again field by 17 lengths in June, then added the GI Alabama Stakes in August over the current Kentucy Oaks winner.

“I am not putting her back on the grass at this point,” said trainer Mark Casse. “She's going to run another year.”

Second choice on the morning line at 5-2, Nitrogen will have regular pilot Jose Ortiz in the irons.

Juddmonte has won the Spinster three times since the operation began sponsoring the race two decades ago, including the last two years with Idiomatic (Curlin), and brings another chance this year in 4-1 pick Scylla (Tapit). The homebred hasn't won since a three-in-a-row streak in 2024 that included the Fleur de Lis and the GIII Shawnee Stakes, but she's on the board more often than not and has been sprinting for the last year. Second last out in the GI Ballerina Stakes, she's only tried 1 1/8 miles once–that Fleur de Lis win–but four of her five career wins have been at a mile or greater. Junior Alvarado rides the 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' for trainer Bill Mott.

The Spring Meet's GIII Doubledogdare Stakes victress Gin Gin (Hightail) at 6-1 and Churchill allowance winner Chilled (Frosted) at 30-1 round out the field.

Keeneland's final 'Win and You're In' race of a loaded Breeders' Cup prep weekend is Sunday's GII Castle & Key Bourbon Stakes, which features 2-year-olds going 1 1/16 miles on the lawn. After two dominant and front-running wins at Saratoga over the same distance, including last out in the Aug. 28 GIII With Anticipation Stakes, it's Final Score (Not This Time)'s race to lose, although he may not make the lead as easily in this 12-horse field as he did at the Spa. Todd Pletcher will leg up Irad Ortiz, Jr. for the Repole Stables runner, who is the 8-5 favorite.

Vintur (Violence) was ultra-impressive in his debut victory at Kentucky Downs last month in a sprint; Exonerate (Justify) broke his maiden at Kentucky Downs after missing the board behind two 'TDN Rising Stars, presented by Hagyard' in his first two tries; Casa Cielo (Caravaggio) is coming off two wins in a row, including in the Kitten's Joy Stakes at this distance, at Colonial Downs; and Dr. Agne (Into Mischief), a first-out 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' who finished fourth behind Final Score in the With Anticipation, will be a fan favorite due to his dam, Eclipse champion Lady Eli.

The Castle & Key Bourbon offers a fees-paid berth to the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf. —@JillWilliamsTDN

The graded turf slate at 'The Great Race Place' on Sunday includes the GIII Zuma Beach Stakes for juvenile boys and GIII Surfer Girl Stakes for the 2-year-old fillies.

Entries for the Zuma include Proletariat (Raging Bull {Fr}), who broke his maiden at second asking over the Del Mar turf Aug. 1. The ridgling, trained by Jeff Mullins, was last seen running third to Hey Nay Nay (Ire) (No Nay Never) in the Del Mar Juvenile Turf Sept. 7. Looking to steal the colt's thunder are the 1-2 finishers from a maiden special weight at the seaside oval Sept. 6. Michael McCarthy trainee Stark Contrast (Caravaggio) bested Richard Mandella charge Medici (Into Mischief) by a length, but both routers have the opportunity to elevate their games here. Caro Buono (Fr) (Zelzal {Fr}) was fourth in the Del Mar Juvenile Turf, which was his first start stateside for conditioner Leonard Powell.

Dreaming of Alys wins the Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar | Benoit

In the Surfer Girl, Dreaming of Alys (Upstart) won the Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf Sept. 6 as a 61-1 shot. She will not be anywhere near that price on Sunday for trainer Phil D'Amato. Her stablemate Yours Sincerely (Ire) (Cable Bay {Ire}) ran fourth in that same race and gets blinkers here.

Will Happen (Vekoma) went gate to wire on debut at Del Mar Aug. 24 for Richard Baltas, while Scratch It (Tapit) heads to California for trainer Brad Cox after winning at first asking over the Saratoga turf Aug. 1 and finishing runner-up to 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard', Time to Dream (Not This Time) in the P.G. Johnson Stakes upstate Aug. 27. Finally, Spendthrift homebred Brave Deb (Authentic) was unveiled a winner under the care of Richard Mandella at Del Mar Sept. 5. —@campbellparlay

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Each of the three graded stakes contested on FallStars Friday at Keeneland earned the winners a fees-paid berth into their respective races at the Breeders' Cup meeeting Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, and the horses' connections indicated that it's all systems go for Del Mar in four weeks' time.

'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Tommy Jo (Into Mischief) crossed the line second in the GI Darley Alcibiades Stakes, but was elevated to the victory by the stewards, who ruled that she was interfered with by Percy's Bar (Upstart) seriously enough to merit a disqualification. Trainer Todd Pletcher, who was winning his 73rd stakes at Keeneland, indicated that the Spendthrift homebred would press on to the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies on Halloween.

She is likely to face a rematch with Percy's Bar at the seaside oval.

“She came back great,” trainer Ben Colebrook said. “She thinks she won, so we didn't tell her any different. We'll see how she is doing and check the flight availability to decide when to ship to Del Mar. Probably as late as possible.”

Imaginationthelady (Not This Time) led home a 1-2-3 finish for her world-class stallion in the GII Jessamine Stakes, carrying Frankie Dettori to a 10-1 upset over Infinite Sky and a tough-trip 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Time To Dream.

“Frankie gave her a good ride and she learned a lot more from this than when she won first out at Kentucky Downs and went right to the front,” said trainer Brendan Walsh, who celebrated a three-timer on opening day.

The victory was the first in stakes company in America for owner Mark Dobbin.

“He's Irish and based in New York,” Walsh said. “He sent me a filly a few years ago named Storm Miami (Ire) (Blue Point {Ire}), who runs Monday at Presque Isle Downs, and then he sent me American Sonja (GB) (Tasleet {GB}), who runs for the second time for me in the [GIII] Waya [Stakes Sunday] in New York.”

All things equal, Imaginationthelady heads to the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf on Halloween.

The veteran Nakatomi (Firing Line) punched his ticket to the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint with an irresistible last-to-first rally in the GII Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix Stakes. The 6-year-old was third in the 2023 Sprint on the back of a runner-up effort in the Phoenix. The chestnut was sixth in last year's Sprint after finishing a distant second in the Phoenix.

“He's like [20-year NFL quarterback] Brett Favre. He keeps going the older he gets,” said trainer Wesley Ward. “We don't run him very many times a year. I think that's what keeps him excited when he comes over [for the race]. He only has a few starts, so that's contributing to him wanting to do it.”

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The undefeated Ewing (Knicks Go) has been scratched from Saturday's GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland after he returned from a workout “not at 100%” according to his part-owner, Griffin Johnson.

Johnson, who announced the news on X, wrote, “West Point and I wanted to break the news that our handsome boy, Ewing, will be scratched from the GI Breeders Futurity. He came out of his work not at 100% (Friday) morning and will be sent home for full exam. Sorry to all the racing fans, but as Mark Casse said, our horses always come first. Time for Curtain Call to run in the GI Champagne Stakes tomorrow.”

Trainer Mark Casse told the Daily Racing Form that Ewing will now head to Ocala and receive a winter freshening to prepare for a three-year-old campaign.

Ewing, a `TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard,' won his debut at Saratoga July 5 by 12 lengths, and followed that win up in the GII Saratoga Special on August 2.

He is owned in partnership with D. J. Stable, West Point Thoroughbreds and Kenneth French.

A field of six remains in the race, with Ted Noffey (Into MIschief) the heavy favorite.

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by TDN Editorial Staff

Buckle up, race fans, it's going to be a wild ride on Saturday, as no fewer than 16 graded stakes from New York to Lexington, from Los Angeles to Toronto are scheduled, with horse racing's championship weekend now officially less than four weeks down the road. Without further ado, let's jump into the always-productive card at Aqueduct.

A quartet of graded stakes, headed by the 'Win and You're In' GI Champagne S. and GI Frizette S., take centerstage at the Belmont at the Big A meeting Saturday. Both races for 2-year-olds are contested at a one-turn mile.

All eyes will be on Champagne standout It's Our Time (Not This Time), a jaw-dropping 17 3/4-length 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard debut winner going 6 1/2 furlongs at Saratoga Aug. 16.

“We're going to find out a lot more about him on Saturday,” trainer Tom Amoss said of the even-money morning-line favorite in these pages earlier this week.

The Frizette looks like a much more wide-open affair with no shortage of early speed signed on.

Carmel Coast (Omaha Beach) earned a field-best 86 Beyer Speed Figure in a front-running, tour-de-force debut victory over next-out winner Lovely Christina (Vekoma) going 6 1/2 furlongs at the Spa Aug. 10.

“It was a nice debut and we're excited to see how she handles the increase in distance and stakes company,” trainer Whit Beckman said.

Unbeaten New York-bred Iron Orchard (Authentic) won her first two starts by a combined 12 1/4 lengths, including a sharp, wire-to-wire victory in the Seeking the Ante S. Aug. 22. The 3-1 program favorite takes on open company for the first time.

'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Five Bars (Maxfield) turned in an impressive, last-to-first debut victory after getting off to a problematic start in her unveiling for Shug McGaughey on the Travers undercard.

The anticipated pace scenario should also favor the two-for-two Chopsticks (Essential Quality), a last-out winner of the Ellis Park Debutante S. Aug. 10.

A full field will line up for the GII Miss Grillo S., a 'Win and You're In' for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Deep Learning (Cairo Prince), an eye-catching debut winner for Chad Brown over the Saratoga turf Aug. 8, will look to get back on track following a fifth-place finish in the GI Johnnie Walker Natalma S. at Woodbine Sept. 13. The Miss Grillo field also includes the two-for-two Untapable S. winner Quiet Street (Street Boss) and promising maiden winners Miss Picky (Uncle Mo) and Fille d'Oro (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}).

The stacked 12-race program at the Big A also features the GII Jockey Club Derby Invitational. –Steve Sherack

Three of the last nine winners of the GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity have gone on to double up in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile, and a field of seven is set to contest the 'Win and You're In' qualifier for this year's Juvenile at Del Mar on Oct. 31.

No fewer than four 'TDN Rising Stars' presented by Hagyard will face the starter, and none has been more impressive or is more accomplished than Spendthrift homebred Ted Noffey (Into Mischief), who followed up a 1 1/2-length graduation with a defeat of fellow 'Rising Stars' Buetane (Tiz the Law) and Curtain Call (Tiz the Law) in the GI Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga Sept. 1.

Big Dom (McKinzie), stablemate of It's Our Time, was impressive in graduating by a neck on the Travers Day undercard Aug. 23, and will be ridden by Irad Ortiz, Jr. for this first go at two turns. 'Rising Star' Blackout Time (Not This Time) and Spice Runner (Gun Runner) have form over a mile, the former when breaking his maiden by nearly 10 lengths at Ellis Aug 2, and the latter in the Sept. 13 GIII Iroquois Stakes.

According to a tweet from social media influencer Griffin Johnson, 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Ewing (Knicks Go) will be scratched out of the Breeders' Futurity after emerging from a Friday gallop 'not at 100%' per Johnson. The GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile has also been ruled out.

Ted Noffey romped clear in the GI Hopeful S. | Sarah Andrew

The afternoon's richest event at $1.25 million (for those horses bred in Kentucky) is the 'Win and You're In' GI Coolmore Turf Mile, which has attracted a full field of 12, headed by Sam Sangster's Diego Velazquez (Ire) (Frankel {GB}). No better than a distant ninth in the G1 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot in June, he was subsequently victorious in the G2 Minstrel Stakes at the Curragh July 20 and in the G1 Prix Jacques Le Marois the following month, where he had subsequent GI Woodbine Mile romper Notable Speech (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) an unlucky head behind.

Woodshauna (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) also brings French elite-level form into this test, having won the G1 Prix Jean Prat over seven furlongs ahead of a troubled third in the G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest Aug. 10 at summer headquarters in Deauville. He should be coming at them late if a fast pace develops, as is expected.

'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Donegal Momentum (Uncle Mo) should be ridden forward from the inside stall, while Howard Wolowitz (Munnings), a Grade I winner over 6 1/2 panels should also fuel the tempo.

Chad Brown has owned the GI First Lady Stakes, having sent out the winner in each of the past seven years and eight times overall. Remarkably, none of those has come for Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables, but Dynamic Pricing (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) will have every chance to change that. Upset winner of the GI Just A Game Stakes going this trip at Saratoga in June, she was an excuse-free third in the GI Diana Stakes July 12, but dropped back to the mile to best Raqiya (Ire) (Blue Point {Ire}) in the Aug. 29 Perfect Sting Stakes. Brown also sends out two-time graded winner Segesta (Ghostzapper)

Ozara (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) is a first runner in the First Lady for Miguel Clement and enters in top nick, having proved an easy winner of the GII Ballston Spa Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 8. Great Generation (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) has won three of her last four when facing her own sex, including the G3 Chartwell Fillies Stakes at Lingfield in May.

'Rising Star' Doncho (Mo Town) is the 3-1 favorite in the GII Woodford Stakes facing the likes of Group 1 winner Khaadem (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) and 3-year-old Governor Sam (Improbable). Vahva (Gun Runner) is the 7-5 morning-line choice for the GII Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes, with a berth in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint there for the taking. She is clearly the class of the field, but each of her five graded wins has come at seven-eighths. Conversely, Zeitlos (Curlin) is seven-for-10 at this six-furlong trip, including this event 12 months ago. —Alan Carasso

Contested as the Norfolk Stakes from 1970 through 2011 and then the Frontrunner Stakes from 2012 to 2017, Santa Anita's fall feature for 2-year-olds was renamed the American Pharoah for the 2018 renewal which was incidentally won by the Bob Baffert runner, Game Winner (Candy Ride {Arg}). Including all iterations of the race, Baffert has unsaddled the winner on 13 occasions, including when American Pharoah himself took the race in 2014.

Since its latest name change, the 1 1/16-mile test has been won by Baffert six times, most recently with ultimate juvenile champion Citizen Bull (Into Mischief) last year. And the Hall of Famer stands a very good chance to add his fifth consecutive win when six horses–four conditioned by Baffert–line up for this year's American Pharoah, a 'Win and You're In' for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Del Mar next month.

Leading the charge is Desert Gate (Omaha Beach), victorious in his debut going five panels at Santa Anita in June before obliterating his rivals by 8 3/4 lengths in the six-furlong GIII Best Pal on Aug. 9. Facing arguably the best juvenile in the Baffert barn right now, 'TDN Rising Star', presented by Hagyard's Brant (Gun Runner), in the Sept. 7 GI Del Mar Futurity, Desert Gate finished only a length behind the winner in the seven-furlong contest.

Juan Hernandez, aboard in all three prior starts, will try to nurse the speed of the 3-2 morning line favorite.

Desert Gate | Benoit photo

Baffert also saddles Kristofferson (Nyquist), a $1.15 million KEESEEP purchase, who won his six-furlong debut at Del Mar by 3/4 of a length on Aug. 31. While Hernandez, who was in the irons for the colt's career debut, sidesteps to the race favorite, Kristofferson acquires the services of Mike Smith.

Rounding out Baffert's quartet is Plutarch (Into Mischief), runner up in the one-mile GIII Del Mar Juvenile Turf on Sept. 7 in addition to Balboa (Not This Time), who broke his maiden on Aug. 10 before tiring to fifth behind Brant in the Del Mar Futurity. The former, a son of champion Stellar Wind (Curlin), gets blinkers on, while the latter, an $875,000 KEESEP buy, removes them this weekend.

Of the remaining horses, Intrepido (Maximus Mischief), the most expensive offspring by the sire sold at public auction when bringing $385,000 at the OBS April Sale, makes his black-type debut following a second-out win going a mile at Del Mar on Aug. 23, earning 'TDN Rising Star', presented by Hagyard status. Trained by Jeff Mullins, the bay was fourth in the seemingly live maiden won by Brant.

Civil Liberty (Independence Hall) has suffered defeat at the hooves of Brant in both prior races, including a third in the Del Mar Futurity. The dark bay is trained by Doug O'Neill, who tries to collect his third victory in this race.

Juvenile fillies are also represented on Saturday's card when six line up for the GII Oak Leaf Stakes, a 'Win and You're In' test for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. Baffert holds the key with 'Rising Star' Explora (Blame), a 4 3/4-length winner over next out scorer Revera (Lexitonian) in a Del Mar maiden Aug. 17. Caught late by Bottle of Rouge (Vino Rosso) in the Sept. 6 Del Mar Debutante, the $350,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic purchase gets blinkers off while stretching to 1 1/16 miles here.

Baffert also saddles 'Rising Star' Himika (Curlin), a runaway winner in her five-furlong debut at Santa Anita in June before adding a victory in the GIII Sorrento Stakes. The $900,000 OBSAPR purchase was fourth last time out in the Debutante.

For those looking for a bit more value, La Wally (Constitution) finished a credible third in the Debutante, only 1 1/2 lengths behind the winner. A narrow winner in her debut at Del Mar in July, the Mark Glatt-trained filly has shown improvement in two starts, and her connections hope the favorite gets some pressure up front early to help their closing filly get up for a piece of it.

Offering some pizzazz on the undercard's GIII Chillingworth Stakes is 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Tamara (Bolt d'Oro), the daughter of champion Beholder who looked like she could be anything after winning her first two starts at two, including a 6 3/4-length victory in the 2023 Del Mar Debutante. Tiring to seventh as the favorite in that season's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, she went missing until returning with a nose second one year later in a six-furlong optional claimer at Del Mar last November. Mike Smith returns to ride the 4-year-old.

Rounding out the 'Win and You're In' races for next month's World Championships, the GII Rodeo Drive Stakes features Hang the Moon (Uncle Mo), winner of this race one year ago. Winless since, she comes into this off a fifth in the nine-furlong GII Del Mar's John C. Mabee Stakes. Likely to take the lion's share at the betting window is Amber Cascade (Free Drop Billy), claimed for $80,000 when a close-up fourth in a Churchill Downs optional claimer on the dirt in May. With Mike Maker now handling the training duties, the 5-year-old mare dead-heated for second in the one-mile Kentucky Downs Preview Ladies Turf Mile on Aug. 3 and was second again in the 11-furlong GII Flower Bowl Stakes at Saratoga Aug. 30.–C Bossinakis

Woodbine plays host to a trio of graded stakes races Saturday led by a truly international version of the GI Canadian International. The 1 1/2-mile turf route features none other than Godolphin globetrotter Nations Pride (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) for Charlie Appleby who returns to Canada to reclaim the race he won in decisive fashion when it was run over 1 1/4 miles two years back.

“We came here confident that he was where he needed to be to win this race,” Appleby said. “He had valid excuses for his last two defeats as he's only ever run twice right-handed around Bahrain and been beaten twice. Then at Gulfstream (Pegasus World Cup Turf), he had a torrid shipping, it took a long time to get there and conditions weren't really suitable.”

Nations Pride at Saratoga | Sarah Andrew

The 6-year-old has seen an up and down 2025, faltering in the aforementioned Pegasus World Cup Turf but bouncing back in Meydan to take the G2 Singspiel Stakes in March. Well beaten again in the G1 Dubai Turf, Nations Pride returned to North America to just be caught on the lead in the 1 1/2-mile GI Sword Dancer at Saratoga Aug. 9. He drew the far outside post of 10 for Saturday's race.

“He has shown huge versatility in both Europe, North America, and Dubai,” Appleby continued. “He has a great constitution and is very relaxed which has no doubt contributed to him winning from a mile up to a mile and a half.”

Contributing to the international flavor, rail-drawn Haunted Dream (Ire) (Oasis Dream {Ire}) has earned the bulk of his $679,000 earnings split between England and Qatar for Wathnan Racing since being acquired privately in late 2023. The 6-year-old shipped to Woodbine to take this year's GIII Singspiel Stakes Sept. 6 as the favorite in his North American debut.

“We were planning to give him a break, to be honest,” said trainer Hamad Al-Jehani. “But after such a great effort in the Singspiel, it gave us confidence to send him back again for the International. It is a good opportunity to be there again, especially with it being a Grade I race. It was a very good performance for him. It was his first time on the track, and he handled it very well.”

Al-Jehani's second entry, Silawi (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) is a gelded son of 2012 G1 Prix Marcel Boussac heroine Silasol (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}) and also ships in from Europe off a win in the Aug. 23 G3 Winter Hill Stakes at Windsor.

Sandwiched between the two choices are a host of challengers including hometown hero My Boy Prince (Cairo Prince) who has been knocking on the door at the Grade I level this year with seconds in the Jaipur, the Highlander and most recently, the Woodbine Mile. He stretches out for Mark Casse to the 1 1/2-mile distance for the first time Saturday.

Peachtree Stable's Tawny Port (Pioneerof the Nile) seeks his first win since claiming the 2023 edition of the John's Call Stakes at Saratoga. That said, he's no stranger to the marathon distance for Miguel Clement having racked up over $2 million in earnings including a second in the 2 1/16-mile Gold Cup Invitational at Kentucky Downs two back Aug. 30. He was most recently runner-up again on just seven days' rest in the GII Turf Cup Sept. 6.

A pair of Grade II events round out the graded stakes action north of the border with the GII Dance Smartly Stakes at 1 1/16 miles. Ready for Shirl (More Than Ready) leads the field for Roger Attfield off a third in the GI E.P. Taylor Stakes at long odds. The GIII Ontario Maton Stakes winner Caitlinhergrtness (Omaha Beach) breaks to her outside and looks for her third win on the Woodbine course this season.

The 5 1/2-furlong GII Nearctic Stakes has Bring Theband Home (Into Mischief) who ran eighth in last year's edition and comes in off back-to-back stakes wins at Saratoga including the last-out GII Troy Stakes Aug. 3. Nobals (Noble Mission {GB}) returns to Woodbine for the first time since winning the GII Kennedy Road on the Tapeta in Nov. 2024. —Stefanie Grimm

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The Gerry Dilger Equine Scholarship Foundation has named Conan Murray and Mark Moloney as the 2026 recipients of its Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Experience scholarships, the Foundation announced Friday.

Granted to recent graduates of equine programs from Irish educational institutions, these annual awards provide young people with the opportunity to travel to the United States and gain placement at a leading Kentucky farm.

Conan Murray, a Kildare native and graduate of Kildalton College, will be based in Lexington at Springhouse Farm, a full service breeding operation. Conan has worked at Baroda Stud and Ballylinch Stud in Ireland and had a stint with Yulong Investments in Australia.

“I'm extremely thrilled to have been accepted for the Gerry Dilger scholarship and am really looking forward to getting started,” said Murray.

Joining him is Mark Moloney, a native of County Waterford who will be joining Hunter Valley farm in Versailles, also a full service breeding operation. Mark graduated from the renowned Irish National Stud course in 2024 and has worked at several well-known farms in Ireland including Clare Castle Stud, Glidawn Stud, The Beeches and Ballyhimikin Stud. In addition, he has ridden out for Dungarvan trainer Paul Stephen Kiely.

“[I am] deeply interested in the art and business of pinhooking and [am] committed to building a strong reputation in this area,” Moloney said.

Click here for full scholarship details.

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Carrie Brogden of highly successful Machmer Hall fame is a self-described horse addict and she is not shy when it comes to admitting it.

Still, the straight shooter with the commercial breeding business outside of Paris, Kentucky, has to make some decisions every fall when it comes to reducing the farm's stock. It is just the way it goes as October rolls around.

“I am the ultimate horse sale junkie, just ask my husband Craig, who would be thrilled if we had 30 elite mares on a 250-acre farm,” said Brogden. “But we can't survive like that. I am a horse trader at heart, and in order to buy, you have to sell.”

The Brogdens, who own horses with Carrie's mom Sandy Fubini, are once again selling this fall, which is an annual event where they take a select group who are already in foal and send them to the marketplace. Brogden used to use Facebook for her open mares, then send the pregnant ones through a brick-and-mortar sale. Everything has changed with the advent of Fasig-Tipton's Digital platform, which opened bidding on Thursday, Oct. 2 and will close the auction in stages by Wednesday, Oct. 8.

“With the brick-and-mortar sales, everything costs so much and they have to be sales prepped,” Brogden said. “They have to be stressed when they ship to the sale and back. With these less expensive mares the digital sales make sense.

“I love the idea of a pregnant mare going from her herd group to her new herd group,” she said. “Seeing a horse on a video, the mares can be appraised by their page. If they are carrying their ninth foal, even if she's a half to American Pharoah or Justify, it's about her production or lack thereof, and that makes it easier to buy and sell.”

The Brogdens have 116 mares at Machmer and roughly 16 runners who are on the track. For the Fasig-Tipton Digital sale this time around they are offering 11 mares who are all pregnant except for one–Lady Bellamy (Maclean's Music) (Hip 384).

“She [Lady Bellamy] foaled late and was not in foal on our June cover, but there's nothing wrong with her,” Brogden said. “She throws big, strong foals. Anyone can look at her sales history. So it's just one of those things where she's the only open horse we have.”

According to Brogden, Machmer likes to support the stallions that they own shares in, so anytime the opportunity arises to sell a mare who is in foal to say Upstart, Tacitus or Seize the Grey, then they will make the move.

“Bashful [Hip 231] by Orb is in foal to Seize the Grey and we bought her privately off of Fox Hill Farm,” she said. “She doesn't owe us a penny since we've already sold a Nyquist out of her for $380,000 last year.”

Picking the next great commercially viable stallion is a challenge though, but Brogden says she is pretty interested in Aloha West and how everything will turn out for him.

“We have a share in Aloha West,” she said. “I should've listened when they told me to take a share in Oscar Performance like 15 times. That's the way it goes.”

Brogden also does not mince words when she says how tough it can be to sell pregnant mares. It continues to be a roll of the dice for her and those who take them home.

Singsong (Unbridled's Song)–entered as hip 284–is a case in point.

“She is in foal to Tiz the Law and carrying a full-sibling to the yearling colt that we just sold to Marette Farrell's client for $130,000 in September,” said Brodgen. “If that horse becomes a graded stakes winner, then did we lose? The way I look at it is that I am happy for the people that buy our mares and sell them. They will come back.”

Now that Machmer Hall is upping its racing game more and more, Carrie Brogden says trading takes on an even more prominent role.

“It's part of this terrible addiction that I personally have,” she said. “I can completely admit to it now that we're 25 years in. Luckily, it's been a very successful operation and these Fasig-Tipton Digital sales make it incredibly easy when it's time for a reduction like this one.”

Click here for the October digital sale catalogue.

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Two months out from the Dec. 3 start to its 65-date winter/spring season, Turfway Park is projecting maiden special weight (MSW) purses to be $90,000.

That's an increase of $10,000 per race from the $80,000 MSW purse level that Turfway paid at the 2024-25 meet.

But that figure also falls $10,000 short of the work-in-progress goal stated earlier this year by Churchill Downs, Inc. (CDI), Turfway's parent company, of having MSW races of at least $100,000 at all five Thoroughbred tracks in Kentucky.

Back in May, Gary Palmisano, Jr., the vice president of racing for CDI, which owns Churchill Downs, Ellis Park and Turfway, told the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund (KTDF) advisory committee that the six-figure MSW level was a benchmark that the gaming company was shooting for.

At this year's Ellis meet in July and August, CDI raised MSW purses to $100,000 from the $71,000 per-race figure that was paid out in 2024.

Kentucky Downs ran $170,000 MSW races at the August and September meet.

Churchill carded $120,000 MSW races during the September season that just concluded.

The Keeneland Race Course meet that opens Friday has $110,000 MSW races in the condition book.

Even though Turfway hasn't quite hit that six-figure level yet, its MSW purses have been rising.

The $90,000 projection for this season is an increase over last year's $80,000. The previous two seasons they were $70,000. In 2021-22, Turfway paid out $62,000 for MSW races.

Although MSW purse levels do not tell the entire story about how healthy a track or a circuit's racing is, they are often cited within the Thoroughbred industry as a useful barometer that indicates the class of horses a track can expect to attract.

Matthew Shehadi, Turfway's general manager, said during the Oct. 1 KTDF advisory committee meeting that Turfway will be looking to boost other aspects of its winter/spring program while maximizing its slot on the national simulcasting calendar.

“We're looking to run 10 races a night in December,” Shehadi said. “During the December time period, California racing moves to Los Alamitos, and we see a really strong uptick in our [handle] performance, [and] that's also our highest field size each year. So we're going to try and capitalize on that with an extra race during the December time period.”

Shehadi said Turfway is also “hoping to bump all of our [claiming-race portion of] KTDF money up 10%. It's important to us that not only do we tout the maiden [special weight] figure, but that the bottom races [increase] in some parallel with it.”

Turfway also plans to card three additional stakes races so the track will have stakes “at least every Saturday” for the beginning of the season, Shehadi said.

“The three stakes will be conducted during the December season,” Shehadi said. “Last year, we ran four stakes and we bundled them together [on the same date] and called it the Turfway Park Synthetics Championship. That delivered almost two-and-a-half times handle last year, so we're going to build that out and keep focusing on that as kind of a December premium day.”

Shehadi noted that Turfway received 2,000 applications for 900 stalls. Stabling during the summer, when Turfway is not racing, has averaged a robust 800 horses since the track reopened for year-round stabling several seasons ago.

Turfway switched its track surface from Polytrack to Tapeta ahead of the 2020-21 meet.

At Wednesday's KTDF advisory committee meeting, Bill Landes III, who represents the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, asked Shehadi if Turfway is making an “extra effort” to “maintain it and keep it in a safe manner” considering the extra wear and tear from year-round usage.

“Very good point,” Shehadi responded, noting that Turfway is in “constant contact” with Michael Dickinson, the founder of Tapeta Footings, regarding maintaining the surface.

Shehadi added that Turfway “spent well over six figures applying a gel treatment last October in advance of [last] season, which was a recommendation from Dickinson.”

Shehadi continued: “We built the track for three months of racing each winter, and now we're using it all year. So our capital costs of maintaining that surface have definitely gone up. But [it's a] pill we're willing to swallow for the fact that we have 800 extra horses here in Kentucky, helping Churchill, helping Kentucky Downs, helping Ellis.”

Landes also asked Shehadi about Turfway's willingness to potentially raise purses during the upcoming meet if a boost in betting business warrants a revision.

“Just file this away: Should you run into a windfall during this Turfway meet, do you have the option to expand your purses on the fly?” Landes asked.

“Yeah, I mean, that $100,000 [MSW purse figure] is what we're always trying to get to,” Shehadi responded. “And we're very close. But as I mentioned also, we do want to bump the bottom up, because that the bread and butter of our Kentucky circuit.”

The KTDF is funded by three-quarters of 1% of all money wagered in the state on both live Thoroughbred races and historical horse race gaming, plus 1% of all money wagered on Thoroughbred races via inter-track wagering and whole-card simulcasting. That money, along with funding from each track, goes to pay purses in the state.

At the Oct. 1. meeting, the KTDF advisory board approved the recommendation of allotment requests that the Turfway projections were based on. The Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation still has to vote on final approval of the funding at a subsequent meeting later this month.

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Hall of Fame jockey Victor Espinoza, best known for piloting American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) to victory in the 2015 Triple Crown and in the GI Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland, will be a member of the local jockey colony throughout the Fall Meet, which opens its 17-day run Oct. 3. Espinoza made the change from his longtime Southern California base this past summer after trainer Wesley Ward convinced him to turn his Saratoga Race Course visit into a working vacation. Espinoza agreed and stayed fit exercising horses in the morning and riding a few races.

Ward, the 1984 Eclipse Award winner as outstanding apprentice jockey, has 10 Keeneland training  titles. He said using jockeys on horses during training is a huge benefit.

“The advantage is they might find a little 'this or that' about the horse,” Ward said. “If they have worked them in the mornings, they have a feel for them. They can have a little plan before the race [in the post parade].”

This strategy is used for Mountain Bear (Ire) (No Nay Never), third to Carl Spackler (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) in last year's GI Coolmore Turf Mile in his second start in North America for his European connections. In his two most recent races, Mountain Bear was ridden by Espinoza after they became acquainted during training hours. He was most recently third at Kentucky Downs Aug. 31.

“We wanted him to get a little feel of the horse,” Ward said. “He has worked Mountain Bear multiple times and knows him very well. [Mountain Bear] has a few antics but he has been gelded, which has made a huge difference.”

Mountain Bear is scheduled to make his next start in the eighth race on Oct. 10, a second-level allowance going 8 1/2 furlongs on the turf.

Espinoza has ridden sparingly at Keeneland, where he has won six races–four of which are stakes. He hasn't ridden since 2022 at the Lexington oval.

“I wanted to try something different,” Espinoza said. “I have never really moved out of California. Everybody here is really nice and really into the sport. Lexington is unique. Everyone seems to know each other and they are looking forward to the Keeneland meet. Everybody is talking about the races, and that makes it fun. But the backside is the same. Every track you go to, people are the same. It is nice to see many horses training on the track. I am not used to that.”

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Bidding is now open for the Fasig-Tipton October Digital Sale, with a total of 407 horses of all ages on offer. The sale has been divided into two days–bidding on hips 1-225, including horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, yearlings and weanlings will close Tuesday, Oct. 7, while a broodmare section of the sale (hips 226-407) will close Wednesday, Oct. 8.

“We're really excited about the October Digital Catalogue,” said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales. “The depth of this sale has led us to split it across two days. Day 1 will feature racehorses at all levels, including some standout broodmare prospects. We're especially thrilled to welcome back A & A Ranch for a second offering of their highly sought-after yearling crop–and there are even 15 weanlings for those early-bird buyers.

“Day 2 will be all about broodmares, including a reduction from Machmer Hall along with several other exceptional mares. It's already time to start thinking about breeding season, and this sale is the perfect place to get a head start.”

Potential highlights include:

• Willow Case (Neolithic) (hip 20), whose current three-race winning streak includes victories in the six-furlong Sharp Susan Stakes and the one-mile Hallandale Beach Stakes;

• Athenian (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) (hip 231), offered in foal to Bucchero and whose juvenile son Argos (Nyquist) won the GI Summer Stakes at Woodbine last month;

• Spring Dance (Dance With Ravens) (hip 243), dam of recent GIII Oklahoma Derby hero Bracket Buster (Vekoma) and selling on a Mar. 5 cover to Blofeld.

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C2 Racing Stable LLC, Gary Barber and La Milagrosa Stable LLC's White Abarrio (Race Day) went a half-mile Thursday morning at Gulfstream Park as he continues his preparations for the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar on Saturday, Nov. 1.

Winner of the 2023 GI Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita, the 6-year-old took to the main track following the renovation break and drilled a half-mile in :46.56 (1/7) before galloping out five furlongs in :59.29. A latest fifth, but placed fourth, in a rough-and-tumble renewal of the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga on Aug. 31, the 10-time winner was recording his second breeze since, having registered a three-furlong bullet in :33.73 on Sept. 25.

“Last week's breeze was sharp and this week's breeze going a half is similar,” said trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr., who has scheduled White Abarrio to ship to Del Mar Oct. 23. “He seems to be in good order and going well. We just want to get him in the right spot mentally to hopefully fire one of his best races again.”

Joseph, Jr. has as many as five horses in the mix for Breeders' Cup weekend, including 'TDN Rising Star, Sponsored By Hagyard' Be Your Best (Ire) (Muhaarar {GB}) for the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf; and GIII Princess Rooney Stakes victress Haulin Ice (Coal Front), R Disaster (Awesome Slew), a latest winner of the GIII Vagrancy Stakes and Mystic Lake (Mo Town) for the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint.

Soul of an Angel (Atreides) gave Joseph, Jr. his first win at the Breeders' Cup in last year's Filly & Mare Sprint.

Work of the Day from @GulfstreamPark—White Abarrio worked 4 Furlongs in 46.56 on October 2nd, 2025, for trainer @SaffieJosephJr. pic.twitter.com/cz1bksPdiM

— 1/ST TV (@Watch1ST) October 2, 2025

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The New York Racing Association (NYRA) will partner with FOX Sports to present live television coverage of Sunday's €5-million G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from ParisLongchamp.

The telecast will air on FS1 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. ET, with the main event to jump at 10:05 as the fifth event on a 10-race program. The Arc, Europe's weight-for-age championship, is run over 2400 meters.

The Arc is part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge series and offers the winner an all-expenses paid trip to Del Mar for the GI Breeders' Cup Turf on Saturday, Nov. 1. A field of 18 was drawn on Thursday.

NYRA will host a special Double wager linking the Arc with Saturday's running of the GI Champagne Stakes at Aqueduct. The wager features a $2 minimum and an 18.5% takeout. The one-mile test for 2-year-old males is a steppingstone to the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile, for which the Champagne serves as a 'Win and You're In' qualifier.

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5th-Presque Isle Downs, $35,890, Msw, 10-1, 2yo, f, 6f (AWT), 1:10.89, ft, 5 3/4 lengths.
HEN PARTY (f, 2, Into Mischief–Fair Maiden {GISW-USA, SW & GISP-Can, $324,778}, by Street Boss), sent off a 7-2 under a feathery impost of 110lbs, settled in a ground-saving third under Amanda Poston as Broadway Musical (Mendelssohn) carved out an opening quarter in :22.79. Roused by her rider at the head of the lane, the ultra-green Hen Party drew off to win by 5 3/4 lengths over Intimate (Connect). Favored Sun Kiss (Girvin) was third. Out of Godolphin's GI La Brea winner Fair Maiden, also trained by Eoin Harty, the winner is a half to GSW First Resort (Uncle Mo) $338,671. The daughter of Street Boss produced a filly by Flightline this season and was bred back to Gun Runner. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $21,600. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
O/B-Godolphin (KY); T-Eoin G. Harty.

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The 2025 early version of the Inglis Digital USA October sale finished its Wednesday auction with a 74 percent clearance rate and leading the way among the catalogue's offerings was the broodmare prospect Presha (Omaha Beach), who sold to Headley Bell for $95,000, according to a press release from the online auction site late on Wednesday.

The stakes-placed 3-year-old filly comes from a deep international family, with names under the second dam including Bubble Rock (More Than Ready), a Grade II winner in the U.S. who was Group 1 placed in Australia.

“We considered Presha outstanding value, as she was stakes-placed in the Tepin, beaten three-quarters of a length to Laurelin, who is five-for-five and heading to the Breeders' Cup,” Bell said. She is from a foundation family in Dehere, and by Omaha Beach, out of a Distorted Humor mare. We are pleased to own her, and she will likely be bred to Oscar Performance.”

The filly was consigned by Tessa Walden's Evergreen Equine whose outfit went three-for-three selling the stock it offered in the latest sale.

“Inglis Digital USA is an intuitive platform to use, and I was most pleased about the additional marketing the sales representatives put into the three horses I sold, especially broodmare prospect Presha that sold for $95,000,” Walden said. “Many buyers contacted me directly, interested in her and the other two horses I was selling, showing me that the Inglis Digital USA platform has a wide and effective reach.”

The buying bench was diverse with 34 unique purchasers among the 46 lots that sold during Wednesday's sale. The event saw 46 of 62 horses sell at the close of Wednesday's trade, grossing $321,500.

“We had some good trade today, with activity from the top to the bottom,” said Inglis Digital USA CEO Kyle Wilson. “As always, we're here to help with private sales. Thanks to all of our buyers and sellers.”

Offerings that finished under their reserves on Wednesday are still available to purchase on the Inglis Digital USA website. Visit the site's catalogue page and click on “Make An Offer” next to the available horses.

Entries are now open for the Inglis Digital USA October (Late) sale, and they will be taken through Monday, Oct. 20. The catalogue will be released Friday, Oct. 24, and bidding will close Wednesday, Oct. 28.

To enter a horse in the October (Late) sale, register as a bidder, or make a bid on an RNA horse from the October (Early) sale, visit www.inglisdigitalusa.com.

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Earlier this week, Carlo Vaccarezza reported to the BloodHorse that his trainer son, Nick, had been denied stalls at Gulfstream Park for horses owned by his father.

Additionally, Carlo Vaccarreza claimed that despite taking steps to remove his name from the stable's limited liability ownership company–effectively shifting ownership of the horses to his son, Michael–track officials told Nick Vaccarezza that they would deny his entries.

Carlo Vaccarezza described the action as an act of retaliation for his involvement in the contentious fight to stop the track's owners from decoupling its racing and casino licenses–a fight many industry stakeholders see as a matter of existential import for the future of horse racing in the state.

On Wednesday, Steve Screnci, 1/ST Racing president, issued a statement through a 1/ST Racing communications intermediary denying wrongdoing by the company, placing the blame instead on Nick Vaccarezza for not submitting his stall application on time.

“The deadline for stall applications for the 2025/2026 Gulfstream Park Winter Meet expired on Sunday, September 28th. No application from Nick Vaccarezza was ever received. Last year, well before decoupling legislation was introduced, the application from Carlo Vaccarezza was denied based on the historical lack of starts and too few horses compared to stalls requested since 2021,” wrote Screnci. 1/ST Racing and Gaming is the horseracing arm of TSG.

“Additionally, Nick has never been told by anyone from 1/ST RACING that has [sic] his entries will be refused. Entries are considered on a case-by-case basis. To link this to the ongoing decoupling conversation is entirely false,” Screnci wrote.

Reached subsequently on Wednesday, Nick Vaccarezza said he submitted his application via text on August 28, well within the application window. He furnished the TDN with a screengrab of his text exchange with Screnci.

According to this text exchange, Screnci replied to Nick Vaccarezza's Aug. 28 stall application with a link to a GoFundMe that Carlo Vaccarezza had set up, asking for donations for the fight against decoupling.

“Hey there! We're gearing up for another session in Tallahassee to protect Florida racing and the livelihoods of our horsemen and agriculture community. Your support means the world to us, and even a small donation can make a huge difference in our fight. Please consider clicking the link below to donate or share it with others who might help–thank you!” reads the text of the link that Screnci apparently used in response to Nick Vaccarezza's stall application, according to the screengrab sent by the trainer.

Carlo Vaccarezza | Coglianese

Carlo Vaccarezza also provided the TDN with other text exchanges with a Florida industry stakeholder, who he said acted as an intermediary in the situation. Carlo requested this person's name be omitted the story, due to the sensitive nature of the matter.

According to these text exchanges, the industry stakeholder responds to the matter of Gulfstream Park refusing to take Nick Vaccarezza's entries by suggesting that he “let it go and try again next year.”

When asked about the stall application that Nick Vaccarezza appeared to have submitted on August 28, Screnci wrote via the company communications office that “No application was submitted to either Gulfstream Park or Palm Meadows.”

Nick Vaccarezza, 25, took over training from his father earlier this year. He's currently stabled at Ellis Park with about 15 horses.

The ongoing battle over decoupling has been a contentiously fought affair between TSG and breeders, owners, trainers and other stakeholders in the state.

Back in 2024, the former Florida Thoroughbred Horsemen's group initially agreed to support 1/ST racing's decoupling efforts, though the decision was reportedly heavily influenced by trainers' workers' compensation concerns.

Sources explained to the TDN back in January that the insurance carrier for dozens of trainers at Gulfstream Park last year refused to continue coverage if that included exercise riders. Last September, Gulfstream Park picked up coverage of the track's exercise riders under a general liability policy, these sources explained.

After a highly inflammatory meeting in January with industry stakeholders, in which TSG consultant Keith Brackpool warned “if there's no decoupling, then there's no guarantee of when we will continue to race” (among other threats), the group switched its stance in the battle.

This owners' and trainers' group subsequently rejoined the National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, forming the Florida chapter.

During the last state legislative session in Tallahassee, decoupling was eventually thwarted in the Senate. The state legislature is cranking up for a new session, during which decoupling is expected to be once again hotly debated. The fight over decoupling has also entered other legal channels.

In August, TSG filed a lawsuit against the Florida Gaming Control Commission (FGCC), alleging the 2021 statute that allowed all classes of pari-mutuel licensees except Thoroughbreds to “decouple” from live racing as a condition of operating slot machines is an “unconstitutional special law and violates the equal protection clause of the Florida Constitution.”

When asked, Carlo Vaccarezza said he has not yet sought counsel about the possible legal implications from Gulfstream's alleged actions. Interestingly, the decision doesn't appear to have been based on any regulatory concerns, as neither Carlo nor Nick Vaccarrezza have a checkered regulatory history as trainers.

According to Thoroughbred Rulings, Carlo Vaccarezza was issued six minor regulatory penalties over the course of an 11-year training career, two of them for controlled medication overages and four for minor infractions. The Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit (HIWU) also issued him a $3000 fine for a joint injection within seven days of a timed-workout.

HIWU has issued Nick Vaccarezza a written reprimand for an Omeprazole (Gastrogard) overage.

“What happens if I had to run a horse in the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita?” Nick Vaccarezza explained, about the possible implications to his career. “What if I had to run in the Florida Derby? I told them I'm bringing a horse that I could run in the Pegasus Turf.”

More broadly, said Nick Vaccarezza, he sees his stance as a matter of principle. “If you and I are both trainers, and I say something and I'm not allowed in,” he said, “you'd be inclined not to stand up against them.”

CLARIFICATION: An earlier version of this story wrongly attributed official 1/ST Racing and Gaming statements to the company's vice president of communications, Tiffani Steer. They were in fact statements supplied by Steve Screnci, 1/ST Racing president, through Steer's communications office.

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Ahead of a weekend which offers no fewer than 26 graded stakes races spread across three days, the GIII Matron Stakes at Aqueduct offers a warm up of sorts as 2-year-old fillies sprint six furlongs on the outer turf course in New York.

Snow Face Princess (Midshipman) made headlines over the summer, taking the listed Bolton Landing Stakes at Saratoga before topping the Fasig-Tipton August Digital Sale where Winchell Thoroughbreds picked her up for $775,000. Making her first start for trainer Steve Asmussen at Kentucky Downs, she settled for a game second as the favorite in the Untapable Stakes Sept. 7. It was her first start outside of New York and she returns to the Empire State where she has yet to race over the Aqueduct grass–she was fourth in her five-furlong debut on a sloppy main track May 23.

Breaking shortly to her outside is another stakes-winning daughter of Midshipman in Royal Testament who broke her maiden at Monmouth going five furlongs July 27 and then won an impressive edition of the Rosie's Stakes, beating the boys at Colonials Downs Sept. 6. This will be her first go at six furlongs for trainer George Weaver and owner Mathiesen Racing LLC.

The Matron has also attracted Final Accord (War of Will) down from Woodbine where Mark Casse trained her to a speedy 4 1/4-length winning debut Sept. 11.

“It's a little quick back, but that was a nice race she had,” Casse's New York assistant Shane Tripp said. “She's doing well and we're just keeping our fingers crossed that she stays that way until we go over there Thursday.”

Final Accord is one of four fillies in the field making just their second starts, another of which breaks to her inside in Should've (Not This Time) who was a gate to wire winner for Wesley Ward at Kentucky Downs Aug. 28. Ward's already had plenty of success with the family, having trained the filly's half-sister Daring Do (Into Mischief) to a pair of stakes wins on the grass along with their dam's half-brother in GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Hootenanny (Quality Road).

Undefeated Maryland-bred Just Philtored (Great Notion) puts her record on the line in New York off a pair of restricted stakes wins at Colonial Downs during their summer meet. A versatile filly, she won the Keswick Stakes on the main track Aug. 2 before making her grass debut a 4 1/2-length victory in the Dolly Madison Stakes Aug. 23.

“I liked what I saw from her on the turf,” trainer Michael Trombetta said. “We are going to give her another try on it.”

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2nd-Horseshoe Indianapolis, $32,000, Msw, 10-1, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, 1:05.85, ft, 4 3/4 lengths.
HOLLEN DRIVE (f, 2, Practical Joke–Indian Miss {Broodmare Of The Year}, by Indian Charlie), installed the 4-5 favorite, rushed to the front from post 5, but allowed Street Twirl (Street Boss) to lead the affair through a :23.17 quarter. Inching ahead turning for home, Hollen Drive ran clear, and despite Legit Chick's (Authentic) best effort late, it was the favorite who proved best on the day, winning by 4 3/4 lengths. Legit Chick was well clear of Tap Now (Tapit). 8-5 second choice Leslie's Time (Not This Time) was last of five. Out of stakes winner Glacken's Gal, Indian Miss struck early with her sprint champion son Mitole (Eskendereya, Ch. Male Sprinter, MGISW, $3,104,910), victorious in four Grade Is in 2019, including the 2019 GI Breeders' Cup Sprint. The daughter of Indian Charlie duly followed up with GI Haskell and GI Pennsylvania Derby scorer Hot Rod Charlie (Oxbow, GISW-USA, GSW & G1SP-UAE, $5,976,720), who also hit the board in the Kentucky Derby, Belmont, Whitney and Dubai World Cup. Sent through the ring at Keeneland November in 2020, Indian Miss brought $1.9 million–in foal to Mischief–from OXO Equine, the breeder of Hollen Drive. Subsequently named Broodmare of the year in 2021, the half-sister to GSW Live Lively (Medaglia d'Oro) produced a colt by Instilled Regard in 2024 and was bred back to that stallion this season. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $19,200. Click for the Equibase.com chart.
O/B-OXO Equine LLC (KY); T-William Walden.

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Ocala Breeders' Sales Company has partnered with Carlos Morales of Agentes 305 to provide Spanish-language coverage on site for the upcoming October Yearling Sale taking place Oct. 7-8, the auction company said via a release on Wednesday.

Founded by Morales in 2019, Agentes 305 provides bilingual coverage of Thoroughbred racing's top events through video interviews with owners, trainers, jockeys and backstretch workers.

“As the second largest segment of the United States population, the impact of the Spanish-language community cannot be overstated,” said OBS Director of Sales Tod Wojciechowski. “Our partnership with Agentes 305 allows us to provide inclusive sales coverage that will serve some of our most valued participants and better engage one of our industry's most vital fan bases.”

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