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International Racing, Stakes From Keeneland And Santa Anita Highlight TVG’s Weekend Coverage

TVG, America's horse racing network, has a loaded weekend of coverage featuring two Breeders' Cup “Win and You're In” races from Ascot alongside the $15 million Everest, the world's richest turf race, from Randwick as well as stakes races from Santa Anita and Keeneland featuring the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (G1) from Keeneland.

International racing will take center stage and Jason Whitham will be on-site at Randwick for the $15 million Everest on Friday as defending champion Classique Legend squares off against a field of eleven rivals. Post time for the Everest is 10:15 p.m. PT/1:15 a.m. ET. There are two Breeders' Cup “Win and You're In” Challenge Series races scheduled for Saturday from Ascot – the QIPCO Champion Stakes (G1) which earns the winner a berth in the Breeders' Cup Turf (G1) and the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) which will qualify the winner for the Breeders' Cup FanDuel Mile (G1). These are the final two qualifiers of the year for the 2021 Breeders' Cup which will be held November 5-6 at Del Mar.

TVG's Todd Schrupp, Caton Bredar, Gabby Gaudet, Caleb Keller, Scott Hazelton and Joaquin Jaime will be trackside from Keeneland with exclusive interviews, analysis and handicapping selections throughout the weekend. The featured race is the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (G1) for sophomore fillies on the turf. The race has drawn a field of ten including Group 1 winner Empress Josephine (IRE), third-place finisher in the First Lady Stakes (G1), for trainer Aiden O'Brien.

At Santa Anita, TVG's Mike Joyce, Christina Blacker, Britney Eurton, Simon Bray and Kurt Hoover will be live at Santa Anita with coverage of the weekend's races. The California breeding program will be in the spotlight in Saturday's featured race, the $100,000 California Distaff Stakes. The turf sprint for fillies and mares has drawn a field of six including graded stakes winner Warren's Showtime for trainer Craig Lewis. The consistent daughter of Clubhouse Ride will have Juan Hernandez aboard as she aims for her second win of the year.

Sunday will also feature the third annual telethon to raise money for the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund (PDJF). Fan favorite jockeys of today and years past will be on hand live at call centers in California and Kentucky from 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET. Throughout the day, TVG will be connecting with personalities and horsemen who have been involved with the PDJF's work in support of jockeys who have suffered serious on-track injuries. Fans are encouraged to donate by calling 1-844-TVG-PDJF or through the PDJF website.

In addition to racing from Keeneland and Santa Anita, will also be featuring Gulfstream Park, Laurel Park and more. Fans can tune in on TVG, TVG2 and the Watch TVG app which is available on Amazon Fire, Roku and connected Apple TV devices.

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Weekend Lineup: Grade 1 Turf Action From Woodbine, Keeneland

A pair of Grade 1 turf races highlight this weekend's racing action.

Races in this weekend's rundown are listed in chronological order (all times Eastern). Full previews, when available, can be found through the link for each race.

TVG will feature racing from Keeneland, Santa Anita, Gulfstream Park, Laurel Park, Woodbine and more. Fans can tune in on TVG, TVG2 and the Watch TVG app which is available on Amazon Fire, Roku and connected Apple TV devices.

“America's Day at the Races” will be broadcasting live from Belmont Park on Saturday, Oct. 16 on FS2 from 12:30 – 3:30 pm. America's Day at the Races will also provide coverage of British Champions Day on FS2 from 8:00 – 11:30 am. On Sunday, “America's Day at the Races” will broadcast from Belmont Park on FS2 from 12:30 – 5:30 pm.

Friday, Oct. 15

5:16 PM ET – $150,000 Buffalo Trace Franklin County Stakes (G3T) at Keeneland on TVG

Stonestreet Stables' Campanelle (IRE), a two-time Group 1 winner in Europe, heads a field of 12 fillies and mares entered for Friday's 25th running of the $150,000 Buffalo Trace Franklin County (Grade 3) going 5½ furlongs on the turf. Trained by Wesley Ward, Campanelle will be making her first start since being unplaced in the Prix de Maurice de Gheest (G1) at Deauville in August. Joel Rosario will have the mount Friday and exit post position four. Also figuring to attract interest are the 1-2 finishers from last month's Mint Ladies Sprint (G3) at Kentucky Downs: In Good Spirits and Catch a Bid.

Entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/KEE101521USA9-EQB.html

Saturday, Oct. 16

3:15 PM ET – $200,000 Sands Point Stakes (G2T) at Belmont Park on FS2

Fluffy Socks and Higher Truth (IRE) give trainer Chad Brown two chances to win his fourth Sands Point in the past five years when the duo faces six other 3-year-old fillies in the Grade 2T Sands Point. Fluffy Socks is winless in 2021 but has placed in two graded stakes, including a third in the Grade 1T Del Mar Oaks in her most recent start. Higher Truth has made each of her six career starts this year, including two wins and two stakes placings over the Belmont turf. Trainer Graham Motion has Harajuku (IRE) entered. The Deep Impact (JPN) filly made her U.S. debut in last month's Jockey Club Oaks Invitational Stakes at Belmont, finishing third after an awkward start.

Entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/BEL101621USA6-EQB.html

4:44 PM ET – $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup presented by Dixiana (G1T) at Keeneland on TVG

Klaravich Stables' two-time graded stakes winner Technical Analysis (IRE) and Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables and Robert LaPenta's Shantisara (IRE) headline a field of 10 3-year-old fillies entered for the 38th running of the Grade 1T Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland. Chad Brown trains both Technical Analysis and Shantisara. Flippant, a Tapit filly trained by Vicki Oliver, is on a three-race winning streak, with two of those being stakes wins. Empress Josephine (IRE) finished third last out for trainer Aidan O'Brien when she faced older fillies and mares in the Grade 1T First Lady Stakes at Keeneland.

Entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/KEE101621USA8-EQB.html

Sunday, Oct. 17

4:37 PM ET – $600,000 E.P. Taylor Stakes (G1T) at Woodbine on TVG

Ten fillies and mares, including Christophe Clement trainees La Dragontea (GB) and Mutamakina (GB), will vie for top honors in the Grade 1 $600,000 E.P. Taylor Stakes, a 1 ¼-mile turf test for fillies & mares. A 4-year-old daughter of Lope de Vega, La Dragontea will make her second straight start at Woodbine. The dark bay took the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes on September 18, fending off a stiff challenge in the stretch to win the 1 1/8-mile turf race by a length over Court Return. It was the fourth win from 12 starts for the Reeves Thoroughbred Racing and Rebecca Hillen-owned mare. Mutamakina, a 5-year-old daughter of Nathaniel-Joshua's Princess, also comes into the E.P. Taylor off a winning effort at Woodbine. The race is named after the late Canadian industrialist E.P. Taylor, owner of famed Windfields Farm in Ontario and Maryland.

Entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/WO101721CAN8-EQB.html

5:44 PM ET – $250,000 Nearctic Stakes (G2T) at Woodbine on TVG

Ten starters chase the top prize in the Grade 2 $250,000 Nearctic Stakes, a six-furlong grass engagement for three-year-olds and upward. Town Cruise (ON) has won three of four 2021 starts for trainer Brandon Greer, including an upset win in the Grade 1 Richoh Woodbine Mile Stakes in September. Olympic Runner won the Grade 2 King Edward Stakes over this course in August and finished unplaced in the Woodbine Mile for trainer Mark Casse.

Entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/WO101721CAN10-EQB.html

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Brown Vs. O’Brien in QEII

Keeneland's GI QEII Challenge Cup Saturday looks like a duel between top American turf trainer Chad Brown and leading European conditioner Aidan O'Brien.

O'Brien saddles a representative of the Coolmore contingent in Empress Josephine (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who adds blinkers for her second start at Keeneland. Winner of the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas May 23, the bay could only manage eighth next out in Royal Ascot's G1 Coronation S. June 18 and was a well-beaten sixth in the G1 Nassau S. July 29. Fourth in the G1 Matron S. Sept. 11, she was shipped Stateside to take on her elders in last weekend's GI First Lady S. in Lexington, where she finished third to the Brown-trained Blowout (GB) (Dansili {GB}). The connections' Together (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) wheeled back off a second in the 2011 First Lady to take that year's QE II.

Brown has two strong chances to best Empress Josephine yet again in Shantisara (Ire) (Coulsty {Ire}) and Technical Analysis (Ire) (Kingman {GB}). A two-time winner in Europe, Shantisara was privately purchased by these connections and transferred to Brown. Second in Monmouth's Boiling Springs S. in her first American start June 26, she captured Arlington's GIII Pucker Up S. Aug. 14 and followed suit with a win in Belmont's Jockey Club Oaks Invitational S. Sept. 18.

Technical Analysis kicked off this season with a Belmont optional claimer score Apr. 29 and was sixth in that venue's GIII Wonder Again S. June 3. The bay enters off of back-to-back victories at Saratoga in the July 23 GIII Lake George S. and Aug. 21 GII Lake Placid S.

Undefeated 'TDN Rising Star' Lady Speightspeare (Speightstown) faces her toughest competition yet in this first start outside of Canada. A good-looking debut winner at Woodbine in August of 2020, the Chuck Fipke homebred won the GI Natalma S. last September and was subsequently shelved. She made a victorious return 50 weeks later, wiring a Woodbine optional claimer Sept. 6.

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Jessamine Runner-Up Diamond Wow Possible For Breeders’ Cup

Diamond Wow, a valiant runner-up in Wednesday's Jessamine (G2) at Keeneland, is a possibility for the Nov. 5 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) at Del Mar, said trainer Patrick Biancone Thursday morning.

Although the daughter of Lookin At Lucky came up just a head short of winning an automatic and fees-paid berth into the Juvenile Fillies Turf Wednesday, she proved herself to be a prime Breeders' Cup candidate.

“It's a possibility. She's going to come back home Saturday, and we'll decide from there,” said Biancone, whose stable is based at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream Park's satellite training facility in Palm Beach County. “We don't want to force her. If she's really well, we may go.”

Biancone's daughter and assistant, Andie, who accompanied Diamond Wow to Keeneland and saddled the daughter of Lookin At Lucky, was pleased with the manner in which she exited the 1 1/16-mile turf event.

“She said she came out good,” Biancone said. “She took the race well.”

Scratched out of last last Friday's Alcibiades (G1) at Keeneland after drawing the No. 11 post position, Diamond Wow – as (bad) luck would have it – drew the far-outside No 14 post for the Jessamine.

Diamond Wow rated off the early pace while racing four-wide before kicking in through the stretch to gain a narrow lead over odds-on pacesetter Turnerloose nearing the wire, only to be caught by wide and charging California Angel.

“[She ran] around the ducks, like in the morning,” Biancone quipped.

Diamond Oops went into the Jessamine undefeated in two starts at Gulfstream Park, where she scored a three-length debut victory in a five-furlong turf race Aug. 28 before scoring a 1 ¾-length triumph in the off-the-turf Our Dear Peggy Stakes at seven furlongs Sept. 18.

“To be honest with you, in that family, the good ones come to form early. The mother was like that – she won a stakes as a 2-year-old. Diamond Oops, the three-quarter brother, won at 2,” Biancone said. “I know she's going to improve. She's naturally and extremely talented. She's a very, very good filly.”

Diamond Wow, who is owned by Diamond 100 Racing Club LLC, Amy Dunne and Biancone, is out of Patriotic Diamond, a daughter of Hat Trick who broke her maiden in the Generous Portion Stakes at Del Mar in her second career start. Patriotic Diamond is a half-sister to Biancone-trained Diamond Oops, a multiple graded-stakes winner with more than $1.3 million in purse earning.

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