An eager Mawj pulled Oisin Murphy to the lead early in the Queen Elizebeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland and never gave up her position, holding off a late charge from Lindy to win the 1 1/8-mile turf event by a half-length.

A pair of stakes for older females at Woodbine both went to mares by Hard Spun, as Millie Girl won the CA$150,000 Ontario Matron Stakes at 1 1/16 miles and, one race later, Spun Glass took the CA$150,000 Ontario Fashion Stakes at six furlongs.

The Godolphin homebred son of Street Sense, sidelined shortly before this year’s Preakness Stakes (G1) with a left hind leg issue, appeared none the worse for wear after escaping heavy traffic in deep stretch to get up for an impressive neck score.

Copper Tax made his stakes debut a winning one Oct. 14, taking down top prize in the $100,000 Rocky Run Stakes at Delaware Park, becoming the first stakes winner for Darby Dan Farm’s freshman sire Copper Bullet.

The 2023 edition of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale came to a close Oct.14, with Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony acknowledging “a recalibration from the dizzy heights of last year” when records had been broken at an astonishing rate.

The $150,000 Maryland Million Classic, the featured event on the Jim McKay Maryland Million Day program at Laurel Park with eight stakes for horses bred in the Old Line State (or by Maryland-bred stallions), was left in the hands of stewards.

An eager Mawj pulled Oisin Murphy to the lead early in the Queen Elizebeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland and never gave up her position, holding off a late charge from Lindy to win the 1 1/8-mile turf event by a half-length.

Judy Taylor, the longtime director of government affairs for Keeneland, died Thursday. Her precise age, according to her family-penned obituary, “is more closely held than many national security secrets.”

The $200,000 Sands Point Stakes (G2T) was a virtual replay of the JC Oaks (G3T) as once again Godolphin’s Eternal Hope held off the Pennsylvania-bred Neecie Marie to score by a half-length in the Oct. 14 mile-and-an-eighth turf stakes.

The $200,000 Sands Point Stakes (G2T) was a virtual replay of the JC Oaks (G3T) as once again Godolphin’s Eternal Hope held off the Pennsylvania-bred Neecie Marie to score by a half-length in the Oct. 14 mile-and-an-eighth turf stakes.