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Journeyman jockey Floyd Wethey Jr. got a head start on his 36th birthday celebration, winning three stakes races on the Oklahoma Classics card Oct. 17 at Remington Park. The panel of racing experts voted Wethey Jockey of the Week for Oct. 13-19.

Reigning Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna will be honored in a special retirement ceremony during the sixth race at Churchill Downs Oct. 26 before she begins her second career as a broodmare at Hill 'n' Dale Farms at Xalapa in Lexington.

The Jockey Club announces the launch of its traceability survey, which records the status of a Thoroughbred, including the horse's use and location, to better understand the whereabouts of Thoroughbreds retired from breeding and racing.

The Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards marked its 10th anniversary in North America Oct. 21 in Lexington by honoring and awarding the individuals who make the Thoroughbred industry the unique and special industry it is.  

Racing in Kentucky shifts from Lexington to Louisville Oct. 26 as Churchill Downs opens its 26-day fall meeting with an 11-race "Stars of Tomorrow I" program for 2-year-olds, highlighted by the Street Sense (G3) and Rags to Riches Stakes.

At the conclusion of the second session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale, 263 horses had changed hands for a total of $15,912,000, including private sales. The average price was $60,502, with a median of $32,000.

Cameron Dulgar of Morplay Racing signed the ticket for the final yearling offering by 2022 Horse of the Year Flightline Oct. 21 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale. The colt, consigned as Hip 512, brought a final bid of $425,000.

Three-year-olds Gosger and Bracket Buster are entered for their first test against elders in a competitive edition of the $350,000 Fayette Stakes (G3) at Keeneland Oct. 25.

Compiled by America's Best Racing, a rundown of this week’s horse racing coverage on TV, streaming, and radio.

Three New York-breds were among the pre-entered fields released Wednesday for next weekend’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar.

Rhetorical, Iron Orchard and Whatchatalkinabout fly the flag for the Empire State in the two-day festival that features 14 races worth $34 million in purses and awards. They look to join the other three New York-bred Breeders’ Cup winners – Bar of Gold in the 2017 Filly and Mare Sprint at Del Mar, Dayatthespa in the 2014 Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita Park and London Bridge in the 2013 Marathon at Santa Anita.

Pre-entry is the first of a two-step process for all owners intending to start a contender in the Breeders’ Cup. The entry stage takes place Monday, when post positions will be drawn at 7 pm ET. All three figure to make the body of their respective races should their connections look to continue.

Iron Orchard, recently purchased out of a Fasig-Tipton digital flash sale for $2.5 million, was pre-entered by owners KatieRich Stables in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. The 2-year-old daughter of Authentic was one of nine entered for the 1 1/16-mile Juvenile Fillies, part of the Future Stars Friday program and the seventh race at 6:25 p.m. ET.

Bred by Pine Ridge Stable and foaled at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, Iron Orchard brings a 3-for-3 record to the Breeders’ Cup after victories over state-breds in a 5 ½-furlong maiden and the 6-furlong Seeking the Ante Stakes at Saratoga Race Course before a nose victory in the Grade 1 Frizette Stakes at Aqueduct.

Trained by Danny Gargan, Iron Orchard previously raced for Edward Childs’ CSLR Racing Partners and R A Hill Stable. A $500,000 purchase out of the OBS April sale, Iron Orchard has earned $352,000 in her three starts.

The other two New York-breds are entered for Championship Saturday – Rhetorical in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile and Whatchatalkinabout in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint.

Rhetorical earned an automatic bid in the Mile as a Breeders’ Cup Challenge winner in the Grade 1 Coolmore Turf Mile Oct. 4 at Keeneland Race Course. Rhetorical is one of 15 runners pre-entered in the Mile.

Gary Barber, Cheyenne Stable and Wachtel Stable’s 4-year-old Not This Time gelding won the West Point Stakes in his previous start on Saratoga Showcase Day at Saratoga. Trained by Will Walden, Rhetorical is 5-for-6 with a third in his career for earnings of $824,700.

Bred by Mallory and Karen Mort and foaled at Gallagher’s Stud in Ghent, Rhetorical is out of the Distorted Humor mare Sheet Humor. He’s a half-brother to multiple stakes winner and 2022 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint competitor Sterling Silver.

The Mile goes as the 10th race Nov. 1 with post time of 7:05 p.m. ET.

Ice Wine Stable’s Grade 3 winner Whatchatalkinabout did not land a spot in the main field for the 6-furlong Sprint. The 4-year-old Dialed In gelding is one of 17 pre-entries and is listed second by order of preference.

Three runners in the main body of the field were pre-entered with first preference in other races – Kopion and Tamara are part of the Sprint field but have first preference in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint and Japan’s Puro Magic with first preference in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. If those three wind up in those first preference spots, Whatchatalkinabout would make the field.

Bred by Newtown Anner Stud, foaled at Jack’s Farm on the Hill in Millbrook and out of the unraced Super Saver mare Super Savvy, Whatchatalkinabout sports a 4-3-2 record in 10 starts with earnings of $388,853. He’s won two of five starts this year – the Grade 3 John A. Nerud and an allowance at Aqueduct – along with a third in the Grade 2 Phoenix Stakes Oct. 3 at Keeneland for trainer Wesley Ward.

The Sprint goes as the sixth race Nov. 1 with post time of 4:21 p.m. ET.

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Hip 703, a colt by Olympiad bred by Sequel Thoroughbreds, Robert Cromartie and Tuscany Bloodstock, sold for $165,000 Tuesday at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky. Photo courtesy of St George Sales.

Demand for New York-breds continued during the second session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale as a pair of New York-breds brought six figures Tuesday in Lexington.

Mark Stanley bought the top-priced New York-bred of the day when he went to $165,000 for Hip 703, a colt by Olympiad out of the graded stakes-winning Rock Hard Ten mare Summersault.

Bred by Sequel Thoroughbreds LLC, Robert Cromartie and Tuscany Bloodstock and consigned by St George Sales, agent, the colt is the fourth foal out of Summersault and a half to the winning Westhampton and placed $53,526-earner She’s On a Roll. The colt originally sold for $175,000 to Teddy Town at last year’s Keeneland November breeding stock sale.

Summersault won seven of 34 starts, including the Grade 3 Orchid Stakes in 2017 at Gulfstream Park, and earned $503,443. She sold carrying the Olympiad colt in utero for $170,000 to Wildridge, agent, at the 2023 Keeneland November sale. Summersault is also the dam of a weanling colt by Gunite, bred by Sequel, Cromartie and Milan Bloodstock, foaled last April in New York.

Fasig-Tipton reported sales on 30 of the 38 New York-breds through the ring Tuesday for a total of $1,101,000, an average price of $36,700 and median of $27,000.

Overall, 49 New York-breds have sold for $1,727,500, an average price of $35,255 and median of $25,000.

Hip 624, a filly by Vekoma bred by Seth Gregory, sold for $110,000 Tuesday. Photo courtesy of Four Star Sales.

Hip 624, a daughter of Vekoma, brought the session’s top price for a New York-bred filly on a bid of $110,000 from Hoppel LLC.

Bred by Seth Gregory and consigned by Four Star Sales, agent, the filly is the third foal out of the winning Discreetly Mine mare Sonora. Sonora, who went 6-7-2 in 46 starts and earned $212,943, is the dam of the 2-year-old New York-bred Rock Your World filly that sold for $50,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October sale. Gregory also bred Sonora’s weanling colt by Americanrevolution, foaled March 28 in New York.

Hip 666, a daughter of Mind Control, commanded the day’s high price for a yearling by a New York-based stallion on a bid of $60,000 from Legion Bloodstock, agent for JCE Racing.

Bred by Constance Wickes, Amy Rabanal DVM and Collin Norton and consigned by Hunter Valley Farm, agent, the filly is the fourth foal out of the winning Kitten’s Joy mare Paris Sunset. She’s the dam of two winners and a 2-year-old New York-bred Dialed In filly that sold for $55,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale.

The Dialed In filly originally sold to Calhoun Investments for $30,000 at last year’s Keeneland November sale.

The sale continues with the third of four sessions at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

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5. SKELLIG MICHAEL, GP, 10/18, 7 furlongs (VIDEO)
Beyer Speed Figure-82
(g, 3, by Battalion Runner–Miss Monk, by Blame)
O-Saint Celestine Thoroughbred Management. B-St Elias Stables (Fla). T-Victor Barboza Jr. J-Ernesto Jaramillo.
The 4-5 pacesetter looked beaten at the quarter pole, but responded when set down by Jaramillo and kicked away to a five-length victory. The gelding is another bargain from Vinnie Viola's blue-collar stallion Battalion Runner: originally bought for $1,200 as a yearling, then pinhooked for $17k as a June 2-year-old.

4. CONFESSIONAL, KEE, 10/16, 7 furlongs (VIDEO)
Beyer Speed Figure-85
(c, 2, by Essential Quality–Speedy Vanessa, by American Pharoah)
O-Steve Landers Racing. B-Breed First (Ky). T-Brad Cox. J-Axel Concepcion.
Congratulations to bettors who reasoned that a Cox-trained 2-year-old first-timer was value at 12-1 odds. He settled just behind the leading trio, shouldered for room 5/16ths out and won nicely. His workouts weren't flashy and six others in the field sold for more than his $160k yearling pricetag (including a $1.2-million yearling and a $975k 2-year-old buy), but that didn't matter.

3. PALADIN, BAQ, 10/17, 1 mile (VIDEO)
Beyer Speed Figure-86 (2nd to 1st by DQ)
(c, 2, by Gun Runner–Secret Sigh, by Tapit)
O-Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, Peter Brant, Brook Smith and Summer Wind Equine. B-Summer Wind Equine (Ky). T-Chad Brown. J-Flavien Prat.
The $1.9-million Saratoga Brant-Coolmore collaboration contested the pace with Prat in his debut, responded when Renegade and John Velazquez charged up from the inside leaving the eighth pole, and took a light bump just before he was overtaken at the wire by a head. Stewards lit the inquiry sign (this wasn't the Kentucky Derby) and reversed the order. Given the Beyer, these are definitely two juveniles worth keeping an eye on. Advice: don't search for Paladin on Google unless you're a Dungeon and Dragons gamer.

2. RENEGADE, BAQ, 10/17, 6 furlongs (VIDEO)
Beyer Speed Figure-86 (1st to 2nd by DQ)
(c, 2, by Into Mischief–Spice is Nice, by Curlin)
O-Robert and Lawana Low and Repole Stable (Ky). B-Robert and Lawana Low. T-Todd Pletcher. J-John Velazquez.
We can debate whether Paladin or Renegade ran the better race; Paladin did dirty work on the pace and Renegade waited and came through between horses. Renegade also had one previous start – a distant 3rd in It's Our Time's runaway Saratoga win. Regardless, both were impressive. Repole signed the $975k ticket for yearling Renegade at Keeneland September, and the breeders bought back in, the Lows having raced his graded stakes-winning dam they acquired for $1.05 million from Bobby Flay.

1. DR. KAPUR, KEE, 10/16, 7 furlongs (VIDEO)
Beyer Speed Figure-87
(c, 2, by McKinzie–Ava's Kitten, by Kitten's Joy)
O-Ken Ramsey. B-Ken and Sarah Ramsey (Ky). T-Saffie Joseph, Jr. J-Irad Ortiz, Jr.
It doesn't take much to get Ramsey excited, but with this colt (named for Dr. Sandip Kapur, who performed Ramsey's 2024 kidney transplant surgery) he has good reason. In the second division of split maiden races at Keeneland, this 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' went 7 furlongs in 1:23.71 compared to Confessional's 1:23.84. And he was beaten a neck at Saratoga in his debut with an 84 Beyer, missing that week's Five Fastest Maidens by a fraction of a point. This time, he finishes on top, and Ramsey says he is now being pointed for the Nov. 29 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs.

 

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Race Track Chaplaincy of America announced that Mindy Coleman has been named the recipient of the 2025 RTCA Community Service Award.

Maiden Watch: Week of Oct. 13-19

The second Keeneland Championship Sale to be held Oct. 29 at Del Mar has supplemented a 25% ownership interest in grade 1 winner and millionaire Mullikin, a contender for the $2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) Nov. 1 at Del Mar.

Group 2 winner and Prix de Diane (G1) runner-up Survie will sell in the Sceptre Sessions at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale, taking place Dec. 1-3.

The Jockey Club reported Oct. 21 that 1,099 stallions covered 27,180 mares in North America during 2024, according to statistics compiled through Oct. 13. These breedings have resulted in 17,103 live foals of 2025 being reported to The Jockey Club.

Economics, one of the 2024 season's standout stars with an impressive victory in the Irish Champion Stakes (G1), has been retired from racing.

With less than two weeks before the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 Breeders' Cup, no changes occurred in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Top Thoroughbred Poll Oct. 21.

The List: An Update and Review of General Sires List Rankings, other class rankings