Live racing is slated to resume on Friday, Oct. 31, at Belmont at the Big A with a nine-race card featuring a pair of listed $150,000 races with the Tempted Stakes in Race 2 and the Pumpkin Pie in Race 8. First post on Friday’s card is 1:05 p.m.

At the end of 2024 when owner John Ropes weighed retiring his homebred filly Dorth Vader against bringing her back to race at 5 this season, his checkmarks in the pro-racing column included three achievements he’d love to see her accomplish.

Trainer Gary Contessa believes Nutella Fella’s gate issues are far behind him and that the colt should be a live contender in the $175,000 Bold Ruler Stakes (G3) Nov. 2 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Frankie Dettori announced Oct. 29 that the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar will be his stateside swansong, with the legendary jockey to retire from race riding in the United States and conclude his career in South America.

Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey leads a pair into the Nov. 2 $250,000 Red Smith Stakes (G2T), part of closing day of the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. 

As Breeders’ Cup tries to support efforts to gather information on exercise-associated sudden deaths, all horses in this year’s World Championships and undercard races will be auscultated—examined with a stethoscope or ECG—in their stalls at rest.

A two-time stakes winner, Deep Satin will look to add her first graded stakes victory to her resume Nov. 1 in the $300,000 Goldikova Stakes (G3T) at Del Mar. The daughter of American Pharoah leads a field of 13 fillies and mares.

Chelsie Raabe with the Michael McCarthy barn tells us three things you might not know about Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) contender Journalism.

Schwarzenegger will be Frankfort Park Farm’s ninth Breeders’ Cup starter in the last 11 years when he lines up for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1T) Oct. 31 at Del Mar.

Leinster, who has the fewest named foals among the top 20 freshman sires, is the only one in his sire class with a Breeders’ Cup starter. He will be represented by multiple stakes winner Lennilu in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1T).