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Trainer Bob Baffert is training Bottle of Rouge up to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), but two of her stablemates, including likely favorite Explora, will try to join her via the $200,000 Oak Leaf Stakes (G2) Oct. 4 at Santa Anita Park.

Maiden Watch: Week of Sept. 22-28

Compiled by America's Best Racing, a media schedule for one of the busiest and most exciting weeks in horse racing.

A pair of Belmont Stakes (G1) competitors highlight the field of seven for the Jockey Club Derby Invitational Stakes (G2T) Oct. 4 on the inner turf at Aqueduct Racetrack.

The 82nd Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale has cataloged 3,075 horses over a span of eight days beginning Nov. 4 and running through Nov. 11, with the stand-alone November Horses of Racing Age Sale the following day.

Woodbine is proud to host its fifth annual Woodbine Aftercare Day for Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Oct. 4.

With his first start in the United States this season under his belt, Rebel's Romance was quick to be added to the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Top Thoroughbred Poll by the national media who vote every week.

After finishing second and third in the With Anticipation Stakes (G3T), Heeere's Johnny and Capital Partner are back looking for their first stakes win in the $200,000 Pilgrim Stakes (G2T) at Aqueduct Racetrack Oct. 3.

The dedication ceremony for the Sunday Silence mural, a new equine art installation celebrating the legendary racehorse, is set for Oct. 12 at 2 p.m. ET in downtown Paris, Ky.

Keeneland announced Sept. 30 that grade 1 winner Vahva, a 5-year-old daughter of Gun Runner who has earned more than $2 million, has been entered in Book 1 of the November Breeding Stock Sale Nov. 4. She will be consigned by Lane's End, agent.

Group 1 winner White Birch has appeared as a star name in the catalog for the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training and Yearling Sale which runs Oct. 27-31.

If there's a star in the field for the Oct. 4 Champagne Stakes (G1) at the moment it would be Double Down Horse Racing's It's Our Time, whose astonishing debut went platinum in music parlance. 

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A trio of high-rolling buyers clashed over the Blue Point half brother to Bay City Roller during the early stages of the Goffs Orby Sale Sept. 29, with the hammer eventually falling at €675,000 to Stewart's Resolute Bloodstock.

Fasig-Tipton's Midlantic Fall Yearling Sale, held at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, saw a healthy amount of prospective buyers on the grounds over the weekend. The one-day sale begins Sept. 30 at 11:00 a.m. ET.

Tommy Jo and Percy's Bar last out finished 1-2 in the Spinaway Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. They are the only stakes winners in the six-horse field for the Oct. 3 Alcibiades Stakes (G1) going 1 1/16 miles at Keeneland.

Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance has received $250,000 of annual funding from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The funding will go directly to accredited aftercare facilities in Kentucky.

After his father, Carlo, has continued his strong opposition to decoupling, Gulfstream Park informed first-year trainer Nick Vaccarezza that they will not accept his entries.

After securing runner-up honors in the past two editions of the Phoenix Stakes (G2), Nakatomi will try to land top honors when he starts in the six-furlong sprint Oct. 3 at Keeneland.