Smart purchases last year paid off handsomely for Woods Edge Farm during the last session of Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky October Yearlings Sale. A pair of yearling colts bought last year as pinhook prospects resold for a combined $770,000.

R. Lee Lewis and Lexi Lewis’ grade 1-placed Rum Twist posted a half-mile breeze Oct. 22 in preparation for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), with NYRA clockers timing her covering the distance in :47.25 over the Belmont Park main track.

A pair of colts by Territories and Teofilo shared top billing at the third session of the Arqana October Yearling Sale Oct. 22.

For the last three years, Thoroughbred racing’s Horse of the Year has arisen from somewhere other than the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1). That figures to change this year.

Keeneland has added three supplements to its Championship Sale: a 2.5% fractional interest in Upstart; a lifetime breeding right in Life Is Good; and a 50% ownership interest in Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) pre-entrant Citrus Springs.

Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. was unseated shortly after the start of Keeneland’s final race Oct. 22 and was taken to a local hospital for further evaluation.

Aidan O’Brien has narrowed down his Futurity Trophy Stakes (G1) team to three as he bids to land a hammer blow in the trainers’ title race in Britain’s final group 1 of the year Oct. 24 at Doncaster Racecourse.

Horseshoe Indianapolis Racing & Casino will adjust with the upcoming time change effective Oct. 28. Regular racing programs will move to a 1:30 p.m. ET post time, a change from the traditional 2:10 p.m. post time.

AJ Will Win Stables’ millionaire Barbadian Runner, a $5,000 yearling, seeks a second consecutive victory in the headline event of the 41st edition of the Jim McKay Maryland Million, the Maryland Million Classic.

James “Jim” Everatt, who with his wife, Janeane, established Shannondoe Farm and became a prominent Thoroughbred breeder in Canada, died Oct. 15 at his residence in St. Thomas, Ontario. He was 86.