Trainer George Leonard III and owner hris Walsh discuss California Angel’s Jessamine Stakes (G2T) win at Keeneland Oct. 13.

Cape Canaveral has been pensioned from stallion duty at Highfield Stock Farm at Okotoks in the province of Alberta in Canada.

A colt by Midnight Storm topped the first session Oct. 12 at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Selected Sale of Yearlings going for $170,000 to Elusive Thoroughbreds.

Empress Josephine, third Oct. 9 in the First Lady Stakes (G1T), wheels back Oct. 16 for another spin around the Keeneland turf in the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1T).

Grade 1 producer Hard to Resist and graded stakes winner Caravel are among the seven initial supplemental entries Fasig-Tipton has cataloged to its 2021 November Sale.

Poetic Flare, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas (G1) and St. James’s Palace Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot, has been retired from racing to stand at Shadai Stallion Station in Japan from next year.

Stonestreet Stables’ Campanelle, a two-time group 1 winner in Europe, heads a field of 12 fillies and mares for the 25th running of the $150,000 Buffalo Trace Franklin County (G3T) going 5 1/2 furlongs turf at Keeneland Oct. 15.

Two Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series races, both Oct. 16 on British Champions Day at Ascot, have been added to the 2021 schedule, Breeders’ Cup officials have announced. 

Claiborne Farm has acquired the breeding rights to multiple graded stakes winner Silver State. The son of Hard Spun will stand at the Paris, Ky., farm upon his retirement from racing.

The opening day of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale saw strong trade with 20 lots selling for 200,000 guineas or more on a day that saw a record turnover, average & median for a session at this sale. Courtesy www.tattersalls.com