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Ka Ying Rising won the Opening Day feature in Hong Kong easily over Lucky Sweynesse and both champion sprinters now head for overseas assignments.

The seven-day all-turf meet at Kentucky Downs wraps up Sept. 10 with a pot of gold—err, prize money—awaiting the winner of the Dueling Grounds Oaks Invitational Stakes (G3T).

Jeff and Chiquita Reddoch's Stonehaven Steadings is back with another strong consignment for the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, held Sept. 8-20 in Lexington. Their Book 1 contingent features sire power and strong physicals.

Godolphin, who campaigned eight grade 1 winners in 2024, was awarded with the National Breeder and National Owner of the Year awards for the fourth consecutive year at the TOBA awards dinner Sept. 6 at Fasig-Tipton.

Gimme a Nother, one of a handful of top South African performers to join trainer Graham Motion's barn in the past year, landed her first North American victory in the $252,000 John C. Mabee Stakes (G2T) Sept. 6 at Del Mar.

Wathnan Racing's heavy 1-2 favorite Instant Replay got up in the final jump to win the $250,000 Super Derby Sept. 6 by a head over longshot Perry County.

The story is familiar: trainer Mike Maker heads to Kentucky Downs with a turf marathoner, one more than likely that he claimed, and walks away with a victory in the Kentucky Turf Cup Invitational Stakes (G2T).

Haunted Dream, making his North American debut, enjoyed a dream trip on his way to victory in the $111,295 Singspiel Stakes (G3T) at Woodbine.

World Beater ran just as his name suggests in the Sept. 6 $503,600 Old Dominion Derby (G3T), overcoming a slow pace and soft turf course to capture his third stakes victory.

Florida-bred juveniles Fourth and Central and Lennilu won their respective divisions in the opening stakes of the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes series Sept. 6 at Gulfstream Park.

Bottle of Rouge, by far the longest price of the three Bob Baffert-trained fillies in the $300,000 Del Mar Debutante Stakes (G1), scored a length victory over her stablemate—3-5 favorite Explora—Sept. 6 at Del Mar.

Epic Ride provided John Ennis with his first Kentucky Derby (G1) starter in 2024, checking in 14th at Churchill Downs. Now, he is responsible for the young trainer's first graded stakes victory.

A boosted prize fund worth almost twice the value of last year's race and some changing plans have produced a bumper 12-runner Prix du Moulin (G1) Sept. 7 at Longchamp, while the Prix Vermeille (G1) for fillies and mares also drew extremely tough.

Donamire Farm's homebred Troubleshooting's belated rally got him home just in time to capture the $2 million Franklin-Simpson Stakes (G1T) Sept. 6 at Kentucky Downs.

Three-year-old Big Mojo pulls the upset and defeats his elders in the Sprint Cup Stakes (G1) Sept. 6 at Haydock Park.

Al and Bill Ulwelling know what it is like to experience the highs and lows of life in a span of just minutes.

A busy stakes weekend at Kentucky Downs will come to a close Sept. 7 with juveniles spotlighted in a pair of million-dollar stakes.

In the month following their siblings' first top-level success, the full sister to Seismic Beauty and half brother to Hope Road will enter the sales ring on opening day of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale Sept. 8.

Max Ciao becomes the initial stakes winner for first-crop sire Maxfield in scoring a narrow victory in the $101,000 I'm Smokin Stakes at Del Mar.

In the shadows of 2022 Horse of the Year Flightline lies a strong group of first-crop yearling sires with offspring headed to the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Sept. 8-20. Life Is Good ranks second by average behind Flightline at $430,455.