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Racing returns to a rebuilt Belmont Park on Friday for the first time since July 2023, a nine race card worth just under 2.2 million dollars headed by the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup.

The first session of Book 2 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale grossed 89,535,000 dollars for 209 sold, with fourteen yearlings making a million dollars or more, a record for a third session.

Twenty three yearlings made a million dollars or more at the second session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, a single session record for the auction, which now has 41 through two days.

A Gun Runner colt out of Twenty Carat led the opening session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale at 2.8 million dollars, one of eighteen yearlings to make seven figures on a day that produced the highest average and median in the sale’s history.

The 83rd Keeneland September Yearling Sale opens on Monday afternoon with 4,642 yearlings catalogued across twelve sessions, and the consignors working Book 1 say trade has been brisk and the market is at its peak.

Notable Speech wins a second straight Woodbine Mile for Godolphin and ends Deterministic’s six race winning run, taking a fees paid place in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Keeneland.

Forever Young cleared quarantine at Belmont Park on Thursday and galloped once around the rebuilt track, a week out from the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup on the new Belmont’s opening day.

Tawny Port comes from mid-pack to win the Marsh McLennan Bowling Green Gold Cup Invitational on the closing card at Kentucky Downs, and Miguel Clement says the Melbourne Cup on 2 November is a real option.

NYRA is considering running the Belmont Stakes at a mile and a quarter rather than a mile and a half when it returns to the rebuilt Belmont Park in June 2027, its president Dave O’Rourke telling the Daily Racing Form that the longer trip seems to be a headwind on the race.

Military Time runs down Brachetto close to the wire to take the 91st Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie, the second jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown, after finishing second to Luster in last month’s King’s Plate.