Friday’s Grade 1 turf stakes at Belmont Park have attracted all-star fields, including competitors who’ve gone very close in the past two editions of the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1).

Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. captured both of Saturday’s turf stakes at Keeneland aboard favorites. In Italian controlled the Jenny Wiley (G1), and Twilight Gleaming revealed a new tactical dimension in the Giant’s Causeway S.

The trainer/jockey tandem of Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore continued their roll in the Breeders’ Cup when Tuesday unleashed a potent kick to prevail Saturday’s Filly & Mare Turf (G1).

Saturday’s Diana (G1) shaped up as a tricky contest on paper, with four well-credentialed Chad Brown trainees. But In Italian dominated her better-fancied stablemates using tactics of brutal simplicity.

Fourth in the past two runnings of the Just a Game (G1), Regal Glory arrived in Saturday’s $480,000 renewal in the form of her life, and it showed.

With an electric burst that propelled her past the entire field, Speak of the Devil made a dazzling U.S. debut in the $500,000 Churchill Distaff Turf Mile.

The most impressive winner on a stakes-packed Saturday afternoon at Gulfstream Park was arguably Speaker’s Corner in the Gulfstream Park Mile S. (G2).