Coming into the Bessarabian Stakes, So Beautiful won (in a dead heat) in her stake debut, the Grade 3 Chillingworth while earning a 100 SRF in the process. Adding a little distance from that race seemed like something that would only benefit her more.
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Six Challengers Face The Lunatic in WO Autumn Stakes
Autumn Stakes – G3 $150.000 1 1/8 Miles DirtThree Year Olds And UpwardWO November 8, 2025 The nineteenth running of the Grade 3 Autumn Stakes has drawn a field of seven going nine furlongs on the dirt north of the… Read More ›
The Dream Supreme Attracts a Field of Six
The Dream Supreme $300.000 6 Furlongs DirtFillies And Mares Three Years Old and UpwardCD November 8, 2025 Six ladies are set to line up on Saturday at Churchill Downs for a nice $300.000 purse. Three seems to be a theme… Read More ›
So Beautiful and Honey Get a Rematch in Bessarabian Stakes
Next up at WO, we have the Grade 3 Bessarabian Stakes, which is a seven furlong race on the main track for fillies and mares. Five horses will be heading to the starting in hopes of taking the winner’s share of the $150.000 purse. The race was first held in 2010, and would become graded for the first time in 2011.
Eight To Run in Maple Leaf Stakes at WO
The BC may be over, but the race calendar still moves on, and we have several races that we can look at this weekend. Up at WO, female horses that like to run long will get their chance to run in a Grade 3 while more than likely knowing that there will not be any BC horses in the field.
El Grande Latte Back in with Three-Year-Olds for Mother Goose Run
–The Mother Goose Grade2 $300.000Aqueduct RacetrackSouth Ozone Park, Queens, NY El Grande Latte from Black N Gold Stables drops back to three-year-olds only competition in The Mother Goose Stakes. “Gold” found her elders a bit too tough in the The… Read More ›
Good Memories Tries to Make First Time Turf Memorable in River City Handicap
River City Handicap Grade3 $300.000 -Churchill Downs Louisville, KY Good Memories from the Mb Stables switches to turf for the first time in his career on Saturday. The four-year-old colt also takes a substantial drop in class after a strong… Read More ›
Resilient Fawkes Overcomes Wide Trip to Win BC Classic
Ten years ago, Delta Farms celebrated what was, at the time, his biggest career win, as Viking Shield won the 2015 BC Classic over Port On The Horizon, A One, and Niagra at KEE. A decade later, he would bring Fawkes to DMR, hoping that the Haskell winner could duplicate Viking Shield’s accomplishment.