Wandering Eyes

Seabiscuit is considered one of horse racing's greatest longshot stories, so fittingly the $200,000 Seabiscuit Handicap (G2T) at Del Mar Nov. 29 was won by the race's longest shot: Call Sign Seven at 68-1.View the full article

The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association Florida Sire Stakes series wrapped up Nov. 29 at Gulfstream Park with a pair of homebreds taking top honors in the two $300,000 stakes for Florida-bred 2-year-olds.View the full article

Joining Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) winner Ted Noffey, Further Ado gives Spendthrift Farm two aces heading toward the 2026 Kentucky Derby (G1). Further Ado captured the Nov. 29 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) at Churchill DownsView the full article

Sunday, Tokyo, Japan, post time: 15:40, JAPAN CUP-G1, ¥960,400,000, 3yo/up, 2400mT Field: Justin Palace (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), Croix Du Nord (Jpn) (Kitasan Black {Jpn}), Cosmo Kuranda (Jpn) (Al Ain {Jpn}), Deep Monster (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), Sunrise Earth (Jpn) (Rey De Oro {Jpn}), Ho O Biscuits (Jpn) (Mind Your Biscuits), Danon Beluga (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}), Calandagan (Ire) (Gleneagles {Jpn}), Seiun Hades (Jpn) (Silver State {Jpn}), Struve (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}), Admire Terra (Jpn) (Rey De Oro {Jpn}), Yoho Lake (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), Brede Weg (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}), Danon Decile (Jpn) (Epiphaneia {Jpn}), Masquerade Ball (Jpn) (Duramente {Jpn}), Shin Emperor (Jpn) (Siyouni {Fr}), Tastiera (Jpn) (Satono Crown {Jpn}). TDN Analysis: Although Calandagan is the highest-rated horse in the world at the moment, conquering the Japan Cup will not be a breeze. A trio of Japanese Derby winners also line up in 2025 victor Croix Du Nord, Danon Decile (2024) and Tastiera (2023). Also, joint-second in the 2024 Japan Cup were the scratched Durezza and Shin Emperor, and the latter has returned to go one better on Sunday. Click here for the complete field. The post Black-Type Analysis: Can Shin Emperor Finally Get His Group 1 Ring? appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Godolphin homebred BELLA BALLERINA (f, 2, Street Sense–Pretty City Dancer, by Tapit), whose lone previous trip to the post resulted in a 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard-worthy debut sprinting over six furlongs at Keeneland Oct. 5, successfully stretched out to two turns Saturday afternoon, hitting the front at midstretch before holding off a late lunge from fellow 'Rising Star' Atropa (Into Mischief) in the GII Golden Rod Stakes at Churchill Downs. The winner earns 10 points on the 2026 Road to the Kentucky Oaks. Bet down from a morning line of 10-1 to be just over 4-1 at the off–in large measure owing to the scratching of 'TDN Rising Star' and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies runner-up Explora (Blame)–Bella Ballerina caught a flyer from the outside stall and was soon in front, but that was short-lived as the undefeated New York-bred Letmecounttheways (Yaupon) speared through and went winging on the front end through unsustainable fractions of :23.45 and :46.31. With the pacesetter odds-on to feel the pinch as push came to shove, Bella Ballerina found herself in the right spot to have first crack, and they hit the lead as Letmecounttheways predictably hoisted the white flag. Atropa, a 10-length maiden winner first-time long in her most recent start, began to make inroads as did local maiden winner Just Singing (Justify). The half-sister to champion and GI Kentucky Oaks winner Pretty Mischievous (Into Mischief) began to tire with a sixteenth of a mile to race, shortening stride noticeably, and despite swapping over to her left lead late, managed to scrape home in the nick of time. Essential Coffee (Nyquist) stumbled at the break from gate two, tossing jockey Corey Lanerie. Neither horse nor jockey was injured. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0. O/B-Godolphin (KY); T-Brendan Walsh Bella Ballerina holds on to win the G2 Golden Rod and earns 10 points towards the Kentucky Oaks! @brenpwalsh trains and @tyler_gaff was aboard. #TwinSpiresReplay pic.twitter.com/ZT8yZ4yASo — TwinSpires Racing (@TwinSpires) November 29, 2025 The post Street Sense’s Bella Ballerina Heads ‘Rising Star’ 1-2 In Golden Rod appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

She shipped in all the way from New York, but it ended up worth her while as Just Aloof (Justify–Aloof (Ire), by Galileo {Ire}) strode home best of all to claim the GIII Jimmy Durante Stakes at Del Mar. A winner at first-asking last out Oct. 16 during the Belmont Big A meeting, she topped a stablemate exacta that day and left the gates here as the 3-1 favorite. Not quite able to make the pace, she stalked from second through a quarter in :22.63 and a half in :47.21 before taking commanding coming off the turn. She refused to come back to the field once she struck the front. Latte Luv (Constitution) ran on well to get second and there was a dead-heat for third. O/B-Whisper Hill Farm; T-Chad Brown. JUST ALOOF ($8.00) soared home and won the $100,000 Jimmy Durante Stakes (G3) at @DelMarRacing for trainer Chad Brown. The daughter of Justify (@coolmoreamerica) was ridden by @HIBerrios. pic.twitter.com/gVTLblFOHj — FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) November 29, 2025 The post Justify’s Just Aloof Straight and Strong in Jimmy Durante appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

'TDN Rising Star presented by Hagyard' Further Ado (Gun Runner), a jaw-dropping, 20-length maiden winner in his two-turn debut at Keeneland Oct. 10, took care of business as the 3-5 favorite in Saturday's GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. at Churchill Downs. Universe (Global Campaign) was second; Soldier N Diplomat (Army Mule) was third. Placed in a tracking fourth through fractions of :23.35 and :46.76, Further Ado made a three-wide bid approaching the quarter pole, and, after a long drive, fought his way past Solider N Diplomat in deep stretch to collect 10 points on the road to the Kentucky Derby. He had 1 3/4 lengths over the rallying Universe at the wire. The final time for 1 1/16 miles was 1:43.33. A $275,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase, Further Ado was hammered down to the Spendthrift braintrust for $550,000 after breezing a quarter-mile in :21 1/5 at this year's OBS April Sale. O-Spendthrift Farm LLC; B-John C. Oxley (KY); T-Brad H. Cox. Further Ado picks up 10 Kentucky Derby points in the G2 Kentucky Jockey Club at @ChurchillDowns! @iradortiz was aboard for trainer @bradcoxracing and @spendthriftfarm! #TwinSpiresReplay pic.twitter.com/SDJKbZ5jiJ — TwinSpires Racing (@TwinSpires) November 29, 2025 Saturday, Churchill Downs KENTUCKY JOCKEY CLUB S.-GII, $400,000, Churchill Downs, 11-29, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 1:43.33, ft. 1–FURTHER ADO, 122, c, 2, by Gun Runner 1st Dam: Sky Dreamer (GSP-USA, MSP-Can, $176,065), by Sky Mesa 2nd Dam: To Dream About, by Monarchos 3rd Dam: Beautiful Pleasure, by Maudlin 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard'. 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($275,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP; $550,000 2yo '25 OBSAPR). O-Spendthrift Farm LLC; B-John C. Oxley (KY); T-Brad H. Cox; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr. $242,470. Lifetime Record: 4-2-0-1, $320,703. *1/2 to Kimbear (Temple City), MGSW-UAE, GSP-USA, $807,269. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus* Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. 2–Universe, 122, c, 2, Global Campaign–Equalityforall, by Quality Road. ($75,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP). O-4 G Racing LLC, Gregg Day, Steven Crain and Magdalena Racing; B-Becky Pietras (KY); T-Kenneth G. McPeek. $78,700. 3–Soldier N Diplomat, 122, c, 2, Army Mule–Diplomatic Miss, by Violence. 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($950,000 2yo '25 OBSMAR). O-St. Elias Stable; B-Machmer Hall (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen. $39,350. Margins: 1 3/4, HF, 1 1/4. Odds: 0.71, 12.39, 7.37. Also Ran: Very Connected, Cherokee Nation, Dr. Kapur, Spice Runner. Click for the Equibase.com chart and the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. The post ‘Rising Star’ Further Ado Delivers as 3-5 Favorite in Kentucky Jockey Club appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Taylor Made's Not This Time, who currently leads all North American-based sires by black-type winners for 2025, further padded that number when Albaugh Family Stables homebred On Time Girl (f, 2, Not This Time–Girl Daddy, by Uncle Mo) captured Churchill's Fern Creek Stakes for juvenile fillies Saturday afternoon, bringing her sire's stakes winner count to 26 for the year. The bay 2-year-old, a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard', left the gate sharpest of all, almost immediately putting a length on the field, but Keeneland maiden winner Solemn Vow (Constitution) to her inside wanted to make an early race of it and On Time Girl let her go as Irad Ortiz, Jr. grabbed a hold. On Time Girl stayed on her rival's flank through :23.04 and :46.08 fractions, but took command in an instant off the turn when Ortiz niggled the reins. She responded even more with a couple of right-handed taps and kicked clear with aplomb to win by 3 1/2 lengths over Paige Turner (Army Mule), who had been stalking from third throughout after employing a similar tactic in her blowout maiden win last month over this surface. Previously undefeated A Fine Chardonnay (Maclean's Music), who handed On Time Girl her only career defeat, closed for third. The final time for the 6 1/2 furlongs was 1:15.83. On Time Girl won on debut going six panels at Ellis Park in August, then came back a month later to take an allowance at the same distance by four lengths at Churchill. That second eye-catching run earned her 'Rising Star' status and she went into Keeneland's Dean Dorton Myrtlewood Stakes Oct. 24 favored by just a penny over A Fine Chardonnay. The latter edged past her late that day, but wasn't able to catch On Time Girl Saturday. The Albaugh family bought On Time Girl's dam, Girl Daddy, for $500,000 at the Keeneland September sale in 2019 and campaigned her to a GIII Pocahontas Stakes win at a mile at Churchill before she finished third in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies to close out her brief career. On Time Girl is the mare's first foal to make it to the races. She has a weanling full-sister to the Fern Creek winner and was bred back to Flightline for 2026. On Time Girl takes the Fern Creek at @churchilldowns for trainer @bradcoxracing with @iradortiz aboard! #TwinSpiresReplay pic.twitter.com/FNx2xTNE2S — TwinSpires Racing (@TwinSpires) November 29, 2025 FERN CREEK S., $225,000, Churchill Downs, 11-29, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 1:15.83, ft. 1–ON TIME GIRL, 122, f, 2, by Not This Time 1st Dam: Girl Daddy (GSW & GISP, $321,240), by Uncle Mo 2nd Dam: Cara Marie, by Unbridled's Song 3rd Dam: Miss Kilroy, by A.P. Indy ($375,000 RNA Ylg '24 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O/B-Albaugh Family Stables LLC (KY); T-Brad H. Cox; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr. $134,160. 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Lifetime Record: 4-3-1-0, $315,525. 2–Paige Turner, 122, f, 2, Army Mule–Sophia Mia, by Pioneerof the Nile. ($350,000 2yo '25 OBSMAR). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-David Ingordo, West Point Thoroughbreds and Danbro Farms, LLC; B-TMSI, Bell Tower Thoroughbreds, Omar Aldabbagh, Frank Taylor, et al (KY); T-Cherie DeVaux. $43,600. 3–A Fine Chardonnay, 122, f, 2, Maclean's Music–Andele, by Bernardini. ($20,000 Ylg '24 FTKOCT; $85,000 2yo '25 EASMAY). O-Double 22 Stables, LLC; B-Alpha Delta Stables, LLC (KY); T-Ian R. Wilkes. $21,800. Margins: 3HF, 3HF, 1HF. Odds: 3.11, 1.83, 3.07. Also Ran: Solemn Vow, Go to Girl, Woodstock, Mackinac, I B Flyin, River Rise. Scratched: Have Faith. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. The post Not This Time ‘Rising Star’ On Time Girl Romps in Churchill’s Fern Creek appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Liberty National (c, 2, Maxfield–Virtuoso, by Awesome Again) became the fourth 'TDN Rising Star presented by Hagyard' for his freshman sire (by Street Sense) with an impressive performance at second asking around two turns at Churchill Downs Saturday afternoon. The 4-1 chance was bumped by a rival at the start and found a fantastic spot in a ground-saving sixth beneath Brian Hernandez, Jr. through a half mile in :48.57. Locked and loaded on the far turn, he was tipped out at the quarter pole and took off impressively down the lane to graduate with honors by 4 1/4 lengths. Stirring Words (Constitution) was second. Liberty National was a well-beaten sixth going seven furlongs at Keeneland in his debut for trainer Ken McPeek Oct. 16 behind fellow 'Rising Star' Dr. Kapur (McKinzie), who lines up in the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. later today. Liberty National, a $525,000 Keeneland September yearling, is the 19th winner for Maxfield. His unraced dam, a full-sister to GISW Paynter, produced a colt by McKinzie this year and was bred back to Maxfield. This is also the female family of legendary two-time GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner and leading sire Tiznow. 7th-Churchill Downs, $123,035, Msw, 11-29, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 1:43.41, ft, 4 1/4 lengths. LIBERTY NATIONAL, c, 2, by Maxfield 1st Dam: Virtuoso, by Awesome Again 2nd Dam: Tizso, by Cee's Tizzy 3rd Dam: Cee's Song, by Seattle Song Sales history: $525,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $70,675. Click for the Equibase.com chart or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. O-Brookdale Racing, Inc. & Fern Circle Stables; B-Rock Ridge Thoroughbreds, LLC (KY); T-Kenneth G. McPeek. Liberty National stretches out and breaks his maiden at second asking in R7 at @churchilldowns for trainer @kennymcpeek with @b_hernandezjr aboard! #TwinSpiresReplay pic.twitter.com/JULpPBaVLA — TwinSpires Racing (@TwinSpires) November 29, 2025 The post Liberty National a New ‘Rising Star’ for Maxfield appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Minella Racing's Minella Academy (Sea The Moon) was knocked down for £370,000 during the Goffs Coral Gold Cup Sale at Newbury on Saturday. Sold as lot 6 to Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins, the three-year-old won his hurdle debut at Cork by eight lengths earlier this month. His granddam, Last Second (Alzao), won the G2 Sun Chariot Stakes, G2 Nassau Stakes and G3 Park Stakes and was second in the G1 Coronation Stakes. At stud, she left 10 winners from 15 foals, among them multiple top-level winner and French Classic winner and sire Aussie Rules. Also breaking the £200,000 mark was Red Acres Max (Maxios) (lot 2) from Moate Stable. Tom Malone shelled out £240,000 for the four-year-old gelding. A debut point-to-point winner at Dromahane, Red Acres Max counts NH stakes winners Ballyburn (Flemensfirth), Noble Endeavor (Flemensfirth) and Churchfield Sunset (Wings Of Eagles) under his great granddam. In 2025, 17 sold from 18 lots offered (94%) for a gross of £1,944,000 (+29%). The average rose 6% to £114,353 and the median was £80,000 (-6%). Overall, seven lots met or exceeded the six-figure mark. Goffs UK managing director Tim Kent said, “Today marked the third edition of this sale which is held in partnership with Newbury Racecourse and it was great to achieve a 94% clearance rate, a rise in the sale average and another big price at the venue with Minella Academy selling for £370,000. He is the third horse to sell for £300,000 at this venue following the top price of £320,000 last year and Un Temps Pour Tout who set the record back in 2013 when selling for £450,000. “We have been very busy over the last three days with all the major owners and trainers viewing the horses and we would like to extend our thanks to the PTP handlers who have supported this sale once again. We would also like to extend our thanks to the Newbury Executive for their continued support of this sale, and of course to our purchasers who we wish the very best of luck. We now turn our attention to the Goffs December NH Sale which will offer a superb catalogue of NH foals & breeding stock on 8 – 10 December.” The post Minella Academy Brings £370k From Kirk And Mullins At Goffs Coral Gold Cup Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Trainer Greg Foley, a fixture on the Churchill Downs backside for better than 40 years, was represented by his 500th winner beneath the Twin Spires when No Time Left (Not This Time) broke her maiden at third asking at odds of 8-1 Saturday afternoon. A career-long inhabitant of Barn 11 at the Louisville oval, Foley is now tied for eighth on the track's all-time wins list with Bernie Flint. “Churchill Downs has always been home,” said Foley, whose first win at the track came on Apr. 27, 1981 with Sky Light Princess. “To win 500 races here is really special. It's a credit to all the horses, owners and people around me who've made it possible.” Foley has sent out nearly 10,000 starters to date for 1,577 winners and has amassed stable earnings of over $42 million. His best runners include MGSW Sconsin (Include) and GI Kentucky Derby runners Major Fed (Ghostzapper) and O Besos (Orb). He recently won the first Grade I of his career when Troubleshooting (Not This Time) took out the Frankin-Simpson Stakes at Kentucky Downs. He joins an elite list of trainers near the top of the leaderboard, which is headed by Steve Asmussen's 992 wins. He is followed by Dale Romans (827), Bill Mott (795), Kenny McPeek (592), Tom Amoss (585), Mike Maker (564) and D. Wayne Lukas (562). Foley and Flint are tied in eighth with 500 wins apiece, just ahead of Brad Cox with 497. “I don't think I'll ever get as many wins as Steve (Asmussen),” Foley joked. “Maybe I can get to Lukas. There are some really good trainers on this list.” The post Foley Sends Out 500th Churchill Winner appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Satono Voyage set sail on a voyage that could find him at Churchill Downs in May with a victory Nov. 29 in the first leg of the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby.View the full article

With a spring in his step down the lane, Boyd (Violence–A Taste of Red, by Street Boss) fired his best shot in the Ed Brown Stakes at Churchill Downs on Saturday and netted his first black-type. Named a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' after his first career race at Del Mar in early September, the colt was heavily-favored at odds of 3-5 here. Boyd allowed Gallivant (Into Mischief) to win the first jump, but the 2-year-old was able to cruise down the lane to score by three lengths in the end. Big Dom (McKinzie) was the runner-up. The final running time was 1:15.58. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0. Sales History: $82,000 '23 FTKNOV; $280,000 '24 ; $1.05-million '25 EASMAY. O-Zedan Racing Stables LLC; B-Nasser Omihira (KY); T-Bob Baffert. Boyd stays perfect in the Ed Brown S. at @churchilldowns for trainer Bob Baffert with Flavien Prat aboard! #TwinSpiresReplay pic.twitter.com/vrsRrqNmie — TwinSpires Racing (@TwinSpires) November 29, 2025 The post ‘TDN Rising Star’ Boyd Shines In Ed Brown Under Twin Spires appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

3rd-CD, 120K, Msw, 3yo/up, f, 6f, 1:56 p.m. John Gunther and Eurowest Bloodstock debut their homebred filly FIRE MOON (Justify), a half-sister to GI Hollywood Derby winner and young sire Mo Town (Uncle Mo). First dam Grazie Mill has also produced Fire Moon's full-sister in MSW/MGSP Justique who just sold earlier in the month at Keeneland for $2,000,000 to Whisper Hill Farm. Yet another half-sister, Vita Bella (Super Save), is responsible for Kentucky Juvenile Stakes winner West Memorial (Caracaro). Gunther picked up second dam Molto Vita for just $24,000 as a weanling at Keeneland November in 2000. Cherie DeVaux trains the 3-year-old and will give the leg up to Irad Ortiz Jr. Rail-drawn Wicked One (Bolt d'Oro) makes a second start for Steve Asmussen after running seventh in her Keeneland debut Oct. 12. The $1.25m Fasig-Tipton Tipton Midlantic grad will add the blinkers for owner Winchell Thoroughbreds. TJCIS PPS The post Sunday Insights: Justify Half To Mo Town Debuts At Churchill appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The FanDuel Racing Turf Festival concludes Sunday afternoon with a trio of graded events at Del Mar, topped by an intriguing renewal of the GI Matriarch Stakes over a mile. Ag Bullet (Twirling Candy) made the majority of the running in this event 12 months ago, yielding grudgingly to finish a length behind Sacred Wish (Not This Time) in third. That effort came on the back of a near-miss third in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, and the grey is arguably in the same sort of form, having run home gamely to round out a female exacta underneath 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Shisospicy (Mitole) in this year's Turf Sprint 29 days ago. Her connections turned down $2.9 million at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale earlier this month and the 3-1 morning-line choice breaches the $3-million threshold in earnings with at least a runner-up effort here. Segesta (Ghostzapper) has twice gone within a length of Grade I glory, missing by three-parts of a length in the 2024 Belmont Oaks over 9 1/2 furlongs and failing by just a neck when last seen in Keeneland's First Lady Stakes over this trip on Oct. 4. Chad Brown has unsaddled the Matriarch winner six times in the last eight runnings, while Juddmonte Farm runners have prevailed on no fewer than seven occasions, including the Brown-conditioned Viadera (GB) (Bated Breath {GB}) in 2022. Vibez (Collected) hasn't had the best luck at the draw of late, finishing a half-length second in a local allowance from gate 10 of 10 July 31 and overcoming the 11 hole in a field of 12 and a wide passage to win the Oct. 13 Swingtime Stakes at Santa Anita. The last time the dark bay drew a favorable gate, she easily handled easier by better than three lengths here on Aug. 30 and she has the benefit of the four Sunday afternoon. The first of the afternoon's features is the GIII Cecil B. DeMille Stakes, headed by the class-dropping Hey Nay Nay (Ire) (No Nay Never). A highly impressive winner of the five-furlong Tyro Stakes at Monmouth in August and of the GIII Del Mar Juvenile Turf over track and distance Sept. 7, the dark bay was the distant second betting choice in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Oct. 31, but overraced through the early stages and weakened out to finish 10th. He'll be sent from the widest alley in this field of seven, but there is stretchout speed inside of him. Iriseach (Ire) (Ubettabelieveit {Ire}) has a puncher's chance as he looks to remain perfect going long. An even fourth in a six-furlong maiden at Santa Anita Oct. 12, he sat a good inside trip when tried over a mile in Arcadia Oct. 30 and game running late to cause an 18-1 upset. The race shape could flatter a runner with a come-from-behind profile. Hope Road (Quality Road) is difficult to oppose in Sunday's GIII Bayakoa Stakes, a race she won by a half-length at 30 cents on the dollar last season. A repeat of that performance by this year's GI Ballerina Stakes heroine likely wins this, but it is fair to question whether the mile is her best gig and she was more than a little disappointing when a well-beaten third as the 11-10 pick in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint Nov. 1. The post Matriarch Highlights Turf Festival Finale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article