Nearly passed his initial test on the Road to the Kentucky Derby in Saturday’s $267,500 Holy Bull (G3), winning the pace battle and the war in a romp at Gulfstream Park.

Ted Noffey remained unbeaten and capped a championship season with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) at Del Mar.

Opening week of the Keeneland fall meet wrapped up on Sunday with a trio of stakes, including two “Win and You’re In” qualifiers to the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup.

Ted Noffey remained perfect and enhanced his credentials for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) with a convincing win in the Breeders' Futurity (G1), earning his first points toward a Kentucky Derby (G1) bid in the qualifying race.

From a pair of sprint stakes at Keeneland Saturday, Praying earned a free berth to the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1), recording an upset win in the TCA (G2), and Khaadem will be Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1)-bound after winning the Woodford (G2).

Recaps of the Alcibiades (G1), Jessamine (G2), and Phoenix (G2) BC Challenge races at Keeneland.

No one would have faulted Locked for losing Saturday's $261,000 Woodward (G2), not after the field was reduced to three.

The storyline going into Friday’s Beldame (G2) was all about rediscovering top form, but it wasn’t the odds-on favorite, Randomized, who followed the script.

Ted Noffey manhandled six rivals to claim the $300,000 Hopeful (G1), the closing-day feature at Saratoga on Labor Day.

The entire complexion of Sunday’s $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) changed in the opening strides at Saratoga,

The scratch of morning-line favorite Nysos wasn’t the only dramatic development in Saturday’s $1.001 million Pacific Classic (G1) at Del Mar.

Odds-on favorite She Feels Pretty just withstood a late charge from Godolphin shipper Diamond Rain in Saturday’s $545,981 E.P. Taylor (G1) at Woodbine, stamping her ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1).

The son of Volatile proved a game-winner of the $300,000 Indiana Derby (G3) and, in the process, set a new track record for 1 1/16 miles at Horseshoe Indianapolis.

The Wonder Again switch was no problem for 2-5 favorite Nitrogen, who cruised by 17 lengths. In contrast, the Pennine Ridge lost its key players.

She Feels Pretty and Parchment Party were part of a four-win day for Hall of Fame rider John Velazquez.

Heavy afternoon rain on Friday turned Saratoga's main track into a sea of slop, which aided the two longest shots in the $500,000 Ogden Phipps (G1) for fillies and mares.

A promising three-year-old for Todd Pletcher, Crudo made his first stakes attempt a winning one in Saturday's Sir Barton on the Preakness (G1) undercard at Pimlico, leading all the way to record a convincing win.

Kentucky Oaks Day included a trio of graded stakes for turf distaffers, and two odds-on favorites demonstrated star quality at Churchill Downs.

Fierceness, a champion at two and one of last year's leading three-year-old colts, commenced his four-year-old campaign in fine style Friday at Churchill Downs, recording a track-record setting victory in the $750,000 Alysheba (G2).

Seven stakes, six of them graded, comprised the undercard of Fountain of Youth (G2) and Davona Dale (G2) day at Gulfstream Park.