After running the quickest split of last year’s Prix de la Foret Presente (G1) before finishing fourth, Kinross (GB) is back—having improved significantly—for another crack in this year’s edition of the about-seven furlong sprint.

Turning aside a bid late on the second turn and in early stretch from Law Professor, frontrunning Life Is Good went on to record a 1 1/4-length victory in the $465,000 Woodward Stakes (G1) Oct.1 at Aqueduct Racetrack. 

After racing off a hot pace early, Senor Buscador rallied three wide in the turn to take command and then held off a determined stretch challenge from Injunction to post a clear victory in the $300,000 Ack Ack Stakes (G3) Oct. 1 at Churchill Downs.

The Chad Brown-trained Blazing Sevens become the first grade 1 winner for his sire Good Magic with a last-to-first run under Flavien Prat in the $500,000 Champagne Stakes (G1) at the Belmont at the Big A meet.

Owner Joey Peacock describes the ups and downs and the Ack Ack Stakes (G3) success from Senor Buscador.

Only five horses in the last eight editions of the Prix de l’Abbaye (G1) have finished in the first three from a double-figure draw, and four of those winners came from stall five or lower.

Five of the last seven Marcel Boussac winners had run at least three times and, interestingly, four of the inside five stalls are occupied by horses with five runs behind them.

Turning aside a bid late on the second turn and in early stretch from Law Professor, frontrunning Life Is Good went on to record a comfortable victory in the $500,000 Woodward Stakes (G1) Oct.1 at Aqueduct Racetrack. 

The Antarctic wheels back Oct. 2 in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, only eight days after runner-up finish in the Middle Park Stakes (G1).

Favored Nashwa must overcome a wide draw and an apparent lack of pace Oct. 2 in the Prix de l’Opera (G1) at ParisLongchamp, while the supplementing of Trevaunance adds intrigue.