For much of the final furlong it appeared as though Kinross would record back-to-back successes in the Champions Sprint under the man of the moment Frankie Dettori but David Allan had other ideas aboard one of the forgotten horses, Art Power.

The champion filly Nest was withdrawn from consideration for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) Oct. 21 and is scheduled to be offered at the Nov. 7 Fasig-Tipton November “Night of the Stars” Sale.

A promising group of nine 2-year-old fillies collide Oct. 27 for the fourth running of the $200,000 Myrtlewood to be held at six furlongs over the Keeneland main track.

Racing legend Frankie Dettori bowed out of British racing with victory aboard King Of Steel in the Champion Stakes (G1).

The final North American yearling sale of 2023 takes place at the Newtown Paddocks Oct. 23-26 in Lexington.

Big Rock set what many must have assumed was an unsustainable pace, but he never really looked like being caught in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) at Asscot Oct. 21.

Miss Code West became the first stakes winner for sire Code West by improving to 2-for-2, taking the $76,000 Oklahoma Classics Lassie Oct. 20 at Remington Park.

Alfredo Luevano, 53, died early Oct. 20 in a training incident aboard a Quarter Horse at Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress, Calif. Luevano was exercising a filly on the backstretch when the incident occurred.

The past three months have been as exasperating as life can get for Glen Kozak.

Leading 3-year-old Arabian Lion, who became Justify’s first grade 1 winner after capturing this year’s Woody Stephens Stakes (G1), has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Spendthrift Farm for the 2024 breeding season.