Trainer Todd Pletcher’s juveniles, led by grade 1 winners Forte and Chocolate Gelato, breezed the morning of Oct. 20 at Keeneland in preparation for the upcoming Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

After months of speculation it has been confirmed that Baaeed will stand at Shadwell’s Nunnery Stud in Norfolk, alongside Mohaather, Tasleet and Eqtidaar.

Freshman sire and multiple graded stakes winner Collusion Illusion and Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner and current third-crop sire Tamarkuz will stand at Ballycroy Bloodstock in Ontario for the 2023 breeding season.

Champion Midnight Bisou, in foal to Tapit, has been supplemented to Book 1 of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, Keeneland announced Oct. 20.

Fitzgibbon’s extensive experience includes stints in Europe with Coolmore and in Kentucky with Ashford Stud and Castleton Lyons. Most recently, Fitzgibbon was director of sales and client development with Open Nutrition USA.

The deadline to receive nominations is Nov. 6.

The 11-time top-level winner retires following the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes (G1).

Breeders’ Cup attendees will witness the final chapter of Hall of Famer Lava Man’s second career as a stable pony for Team O’Neill, as the 22-year-old grade 1 winner is headed for pasture at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm.

With October past its midway point, the curtain will come down Oct. 22 on the graded turf stakes schedule at the transplanted Belmont at the Big A meet.

The $350,000 Raven Run Stakes (G2) Oct. 22 at Keeneland may not have drawn Echo Zulu, who runs next in the Nov.  5 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1), but it lured most of the other 3-year-old sprinting fillies of stakes consequence.