A pair of Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series qualifiers served as the highlights of a graded stakes triple on the first Sunday of Keeneland’s autumn meet.

Despite a significant class hike for Saturday’s $500,000 Frizette (G1) at Belmont Park, the daughter of Tacitus turned in another solid performance to win the one-mile test by 2 3/4 lengths as an 11-1 chance.

A glorious afternoon for trainer Chad Brown and jockey Flavien Prat continued through the $500,000 Ballerina (G1) on Saturday, when Ways and Means extended her dominance.

Trainer Chad Brown might not have the ante-post favorite for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1), but he will go into the Oct. 31 feature at Keeneland fully loaded.

Saratoga’s reputation as the “Graveyard of Favorites” was alive and well on Saturday when Counting Stars was outrun in the $600,000 Alabama (G1) by stakes newcomer My Gun’s Loaded.

Sunday’s dirt stakes at Saratoga both showcased new talents.

Fully Subscribed raised her candidacy for the Aug. 29 Personal Ensign (G1) over this same track and trip, a “Win and You’re In” for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1).

Kathynmarissa rallied in deep stretch to deny stablemate Segesta in the Diana (G1), and odds-on Cy Fair became a millionaire in the Coronation Cup (G3) at Saratoga.

Odds-on favorites Knightsbridge and Splendora had little difficulty asserting their superiority on the Haskell Day undercard at Monmouth Park on Saturday.

A record 10-time winner of the Diana (G1), including four in a row and nine in the past decade, trainer Chad Brown is marshaling the horsepower for Saturday’s renewal at Saratoga.

“I was watching it and thinking, there’s a wire and there’s noses, why should it take so long?”

Chad Brown and Flavien Prat teamed up to win both of Friday’s turf stakes during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga.

Ways and Means successfully defended her title in the $300,000 Bed o' Roses (G2) at Saratoga on Friday. Unlike last year, she needed every inch of the seven furlongs to do it.

Growth Equity stretched to two turns and made his first stakes attempt a winning one in Saturday’s $194,000 Peter Pan (G3) at Aqueduct.

Always a Runner entered the $1.5 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) on Friday, the least experienced of the 13 three-year-old fillies in the field.

The “other” Chad Brown angle was in play in Friday’s $478,670 Modesty (G3), while a Brendan Walsh favorite just scraped home in a stakes-record Edgewood (G2).

Trainer Brendan Walsh had to scratch favorite Lush Lips from Saturday’s Jenny Wiley (G1), but his other entrant, Expensive Queen, saved the day at Keeneland.

Emerging Market will be an unusual entrant in the May 2 Kentucky Derby (G1) with but two starts.

The $300,000 Gotham (G3) at Aqueduct on Saturday attracted eight three-year-olds but was primarily a two-horse race from start to finish.

Earlier this week, Paladin was installed as the individual favorite in Pool 4 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager that runs over the weekend. On Saturday, the Chad Brown colt enhanced his resume.