On Saturday at Belmont Park, two-year-old fillies will headline the card in the $100,000 Chelsea Flower Stakes. Scheduled to be run at one mile on the Widener Turf Course, the race has drawn a field of twelve with two additional fillies entered for the main track. 
On Saturday at Belmont Park, New York’s thriving breeding program will be celebrated for Empire Showcase Day. The stakes action kicks off with the $250,000 Sleepy Hollow, a one mile race restricted to two-year-olds foaled in the state. 
Holiday stakes action at Belmont October 13 – Columbus Day – includes the $100,000 Punkin Pie Stakes for fillies three years old and up as a field of eight is schedule to compete on the main track. 
On Friday at Keeneland, the featured race is the 18th edition of the $100,000 Buffalo Trace Franklin County Stakes. Scheduled to be run at five and a half furlongs on the turf, the race has drawn a full field of fourteen fillies and mares with two additional on the also-eligible list. 
On Saturday at Keeneland, some of the most promising two-year-olds in the country will make a step towards the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in the $500,000 Breeders’ Futurity. The Grade 1 event will be run at a mile and a sixteenth on the newly-installed dirt main track and has attracted a field of twelve. 
On the final weekend of major Breeder’s Cup Classic prep races, Tonalist joined a select group of racehorses in winning the September 27 Jockey Club Gold Cup as a three year-old after winning the Belmont Stakes. 
On Saturday at Belmont Park, sprinters will take center stage in the $400,000 Vosburgh Stakes. In addition to the purse and the Grade 1 status, the winner will earn an automatic spot in the starting gate of the Breeders' Cup Sprint as part of the Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" Challenge series. 
Bayern’s gate-to-wire triumph in the Pennsylvania Derby September 20 at Parx likely left most handicappers with more questions than answers as they attempt to sort out Breeders' Cup contenders by analyzing their final prep races. 
California Chrome will make his much-anticipated return to action in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby on Saturday at Parx Racing. The Grade 2 race will be run at a mile and an eighth on the main track and was used last year by Will Take Charge as a stepping stone to a runner-up finish in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.