The final leg of the Japanese Triple Crown, the Oct. 24 Kikuka Sho (G1) at Hanshin Racecourse, lacks the winners of the first two legs but features a wide-open field of 18 with lots of promise for the big year-end races.

A Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) rematch between Gamine and Bell’s the One, who finished 1-3 in the 2020 race at Keeneland, will not take place when the $1 million race is renewed Nov. 6 at Del Mar.

Former European trainer Ed Vaughan aims for his first graded win on U.S. soil when he runs Alex Frost’s La Lune in the $150,000 Rood & Riddle Dowager Stakes (G3T) for fillies and mares at Keeneland Oct. 24.

Grade 1 placed Soup and Sandwich makes a return in the seven-furlong Perryville Stakes at Keeneland.

Equibase, the Thoroughbred industry’s official database for racing information, announced Oct. 22 the addition of result charts that include data collected from global positioning satellite systems.  

J. Keeler Johnson shares three longshots with potential to outrun expectations at the 2021 Breeders’ Cup.

Ten stakes will be part of the eight-week, 25-day fall meet at Golden Gate Fields that commences Oct. 22 and runs through Dec. 12. 

The fourth day of the Arqana October Yearling Sale Oct. 21 saw the strong demand continue during the first half of Part III of the catalog.

Mishriff, one of Europe’s top older horses, will not race at the Breeders’ Cup next month at Del Mar, co-trainer John Gosden told Daily Racing Form Oct. 21.

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