Sydney Petty and Aidan Gass are the winners of the 2026 TAKE2 Junior Rider Award, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America.

A meticulous 12-month plan bore fruit in the richest possible way when Tempted dug deep to cause a massive upset in toppling Ka Ying Rising in the Oct. 17 The Everest (G1), avenging her defeat to him in the event last year.

Minnie Hauk put a frustrating run of form behind her to hold off Believed and earn Aidan O’Brien a 22nd group 1 winner of the season in the Oct. 17 British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes (G1) at Ascot Racecourse.

A number of horses aimed at the Oct. 30-31 Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland breezed over the fast main track Oct. 17, including Magnitude for trainer Steve Asmussen, and Fully Subscribed, Kathynmarissa, and Segesta for trainer Chad Brown. 

A meticulous 12-month plan bore fruit in the richest possible way when Tempted dug deep to cause a massive upset in toppling Ka Ying Rising in the Oct. 17 The Everest (G1), avenging her defeat to him in the event last year.

Mister Omaha hadn’t run since June 27 and when he did, he finished sixth, beaten 10 lengths in Texas on the turf. That poor showing didn’t matter Oct. 16 at Remington Park as he won the Oklahoma Classics Cup Handicap on the main track.

Billy Loughnane said he wanted to go jumping around Ascot with joy after being crowned the youngest champion jockey in more than a century.

Paul Verderosa looks ahead to the Raven Run Stakes & the Perryville Stakes at Keeneland.

Grade 1 winner and Gainesway freshman sire Drain the Clock was represented by his first stakes winner Oct. 16 when Drain the Shot earned a maiden-breaking win in the $76,000 Oklahoma Classics Juvenile Stakes at Remington Park.

In this week’s On Racing, Steve Cauthen’s best finish in the Breeders’ Cup as a jockey was a second-place effort in the 1985 Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1T). This year, as racing manager for Dixiana Farm, he hopes to secure an elusive Breeders’ Cup win.