Announcer Larry Collmus, who stepped up to pinch-hit for Del Mar’s longtime caller Trevor Denman during the height of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020, will sub for an injured Denman for most of the upcoming fall meet at Del Mar.

The 3-year-old daughter of Medaglia d’Oro became a third-generation graded stakes winner for G. Watts Humphrey Jr., who was awarded a gold tray from Keeneland after the race for winning his eighth graded stakes there.

A total of 100 New York-breds are entered Oct. 30 at Belmont Park to celebrate the best of New York for the annual Empire Showcase Day, featuring six stakes races worth $1.35 million, topped by the $300,000 Empire Classic Handicap.

The CA$150,000 Ontario Derby (G3), for 3-year-olds, and the CA$125,000 Ontario Damsel, for 3-year-old fillies, co-headline the 10-race card Oct. 31 at Woodbine.

The series of mandatory tests and scans before foreign horses depart were brought in following a spate of deaths in the Melbourne Cup (G1) in recent years .

Thirteen sophomores drew into the Oct. 30 Bryan Station Stakes at Keeneland, topped by Homewrecker Racing’s grade 1 winner Point Me By, and grade 3 winners Like the King, Scarlett Sky, and Yes This Time.

Champion Stakes (G1) winner Sealiway’s stablemate Rougir will be heading to California to fly the flag for trainer Cedric Rossi and the Chehboub family, where she will be among the favorites for the Nov. 6 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1T).

Topped by a six-furlong breeze in 1:11 3/5 at Santa Anita Park from Zedan Racing Stables’ grade 1 winner Medina Spirit, workout action heated up across the country a week before the start of the two-day Breeders’ Cup Nov. 5-6 at Del Mar.

While the Nov. 5-6 Breeders’ Cup World Championships will see the best of the best in pursuit of glory on the track, connections of several runners are hoping to follow up with a home run in the auction ring.

The $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T) lost one of its top contenders Oct. 29 as Bass Racing’s undefeated Annapolis was withdrawn from consideration from the Nov. 5 stakes at Del Mar due to chips in a hind ankle.