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Keeneland, which is preparing to host its third Breeders' Cup championship weekend in November, will offer 22 stakes races worth a record $8.75 million at its upcoming Fall Meet, which runs from Oct. 7-29. The Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund is contributing $1.3 million to Fall Meet stakes purses, pending approval from the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, and purses for every stakes race have increased for 2022.

“Keeneland has planned a Fall Meet that promises to be better than ever,” Keeneland President and CEO Shannon Arvin said. “Adjustments made to the season last year, including increasing the number of stakes to 22 and boosting the final days with multiple stakes, produced an extremely successful meet from start to finish. This year, even higher stakes purses indicate the strength of the Kentucky circuit while helping Keeneland set the stage for the Breeders' Cup World Championships, which we are proud to host for the third time.”

The 17-day season will open with 11 stakes–nine of which are “Win and You're In” events as part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series Presented by America's Best Racing–during the signature three-day Fall Stars Weekend.

Keeneland has adjusted several stakes on the schedule to attract horses bound for the Breeders' Cup, most notably moving the GII JPMorgan Chase Jessamine S. to opening day. Opening day stakes races will also include the $500,000 GI Darley Alcibiades S. and $350,000 G2 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix S. All three are 'Win and You're In' races for the Breeders' Cup.

The season's richest race is the $1-million GI Coolmore Turf Mile, a Breeders' Cup Challenge race that anchors opening Saturday of Fall Stars Weekend. Along with Coolmore's first year as sponsor of the premier turf stakes, the race is again worth seven figures–a status it held from 2014, when it was Keeneland's first million-dollar race, through 2019.

Also on the Oct. 8 card is the $600,000 GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity, $350,000 GII Thoroughbred Club of America S.–both Win and You're In races–and the $600,000 GI First Lady S. and the $350,000 GII Woodford S.

Sunday of Fall Stars Weekend presents three stakes–all Breeders' Cup Challenge races: the $600,000 GI Juddmonte Spinster S., $350,000 GII Castle & Key Bourbon S. and $250,000 Indian Summer S.

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Trainer Rohan Crichton, suspended by Gulfstream Park management for alleged violations of house rules restricting the use of clenbuterol, said he is awaiting word from officials at Keeneland on whether his 4-year-old stakes-placed filly Bajan Girl can enter the Grade 1, $500,000 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes Oct. 10 at the Lexington, Ky., track. The Spinster is a Breeders' Cup Challenge Series Win and You're In race granting a fees-paid berth in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Distaff, to be held at Del Mar on Nov. 6.

“I will run if they let me,” Crichton told the Paulick Report on Tuesday, “but they haven't told me yet if they'll let me.”

The suspension of Crichton, along with trainers Georgina Baxter, Daniel Pita, Peter Walder and Gilberto Zerpa, came on Oct. 1 after horses in their stables had hair and blood samples tested out of competition. Clenbuterol was detected in 12 horses from the five trainers in violation of Gulfstream Park house rules. Horses from five other stables tested clean.

Because Florida does not have a racing commission, many regulations governing the sport are done via a track's house rules. Included in Gulfstream's house rules are the regulations on use of clenbuterol, a bronchodilator that can have anabolic steroidal affects on horses.

Unlike rulings from a racing commission or board of stewards, suspensions under house rules, more accurately called exclusions under a track's private property rights. are not automatically reciprocated from state to state. For example, though trainer Bob Baffert was notified of a two-year suspension by Churchill Downs officials after Medina Spirit's positive test for betamethasone in this year's Kentucky Derby, Baffert has not been denied entries in California.

Keeneland's media notes on Sunday and Monday listed Bajan Girl as “probable” to run in the Spinster, but on Tuesday her name was not on the list of probable starters.

A statement on the matter from Keeneland said: “We are in the process of obtaining information regarding the reported suspensions from Gulfstream Park so Keeneland is in a position to make an informed decision about race entries. As you know, and as is clear from our actions for 85 years, Keeneland continues to work in furtherance of our mission to perpetuate the best in Thoroughbred racing, which definitely includes fair competition and integrity.”

Keeneland's Fall 2021 Condition Book contains a clause under “special notices” stating, “At the discretion of the stewards, and without notice, the entires of any person, or acceptance or transfer of any entries, may be refused.”

A 4-year-old filly by Speightstown owned by Robert Slack and Daniel Walters, Bajan Girl is winless in five starts this year and is 3-for-13 lifetime. Two starts back she finished second in the Grade 3 Molly Pitcher Stakes at Monmouth Park. She most recently breezed a half mile in :47.75 on Oct. 3 at Gulfstream Park.

Entries for the Spinster are taken on Thursday.

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