Meru followed up a dazzling debut on July 13 with another victory on Saturday at Monmouth Park, cruising to a 3 1/4-length victory in the $75,000 Smoke Glacken Stakes.

Michael Stinson’s King Jack picked up his first graded stakes score in style Sept. 21, winning the $310,000 Gallant Bob Stakes (G2) at Parx Racing by 1 1/2 lengths.

Longines Test Stakes (G1) winner Covfefe easily dismissed five rivals Sept. 21 in the $125,000 Dogwood Stakes at Churchill Downs as the speedy 3-year-old filly rolled to an eight-length win over Bell’s the One in a stakes record 1:20.51.

Stephanie Seymour Brant’s Significant Form racked up a fourth graded stakes win Sept. 21 in the $200,000 Noble Damsel (G3T) at Belmont Park under a perfectly timed ride by Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez.

Joseph Saffie Jr.’s Math Wizard turned in the most impressive performance of his career Sept. 21, when he stormed home five-wide in the stretch and edged Mr. Money at the wire to upset the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G1) at Parx Racing. 

Grassroots Training and Sales paid $67,000 for a son of Liam’s Map from the family of Albert the Great to lead the day’s trade during the Sept. 21 session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Avoiding stretch traffic that caused a couple of rivals to alter momentum, Killybegs Captain rallied inside rivals down the Laurel Park stretch to win the $250,000 Xpressbet Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash Stakes (G3) over Altissimo Sept. 21.

Glen Hill Farm’s Caribou Club stalked a fast pace and rolled to his fourth win in six starts as he triumphed by a head in the $200,000 Baltimore/Washington International Turf Cup (G3T) at Laurel Park Sept. 21.

Rebounding from a third-place finish in the Monmouth Cup (G3), Coal Front turned back a second-turn bid from Diamond King and inched clear for a three-quarter length victory in the $153,500 Parx Dirt Mile Sept. 21 on the Pennsylvania Derby undercard.

Rallying from behind a furious pace, Street Band closed down the center of the track under Sophie Doyle to $1 million Cotillion Stakes (G1) at Parx Racing over favored Guarana.

Filly took William Hill Firth Of Clyde Stakes (G3) at Ayr

Joseph Sutton’s homebred Scabbard will target the $2 million TVG Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) on Nov. 1 at Santa Anita Park following his runner-up effort behind Dennis’ Moment in the Sept. 14 $200,000 Iroquois (G3) at Churchill Downs.

Cappella Sansevero colt half brother to group 1 winner Harry Angel

Omaha Beach, who was scratched from the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) as the morning-line favorite, has now been withdrawn from consideration for the Sept. 28 Ack Ack Presented by GE Appliances (G3) at Churchill Downs. 

After a dazzling debut at Saratoga Race Course, the next step for Team Valor International and WinStar Farm’s Gouverneur Morris will come Oct. 5 around two turns in the $500,000 Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at Keeneland.

With the six-figure glass ceiling elusive, top price during the Sept. 20 session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale was the $85,000 paid by Novogratz Racing Stable for a colt from the first crop of two-time Horse of the Year California Chrome.

Capsule looks and entries for Saturday’s top stakes races.

A colt and two fillies fell just below the session-topping price of $85,000.

A change in distance resulted in a change of fortune for Cleon Jones in the $145,800 Bertram F. Bongard Stakes Sept. 20 at Belmont Park, a race he won narrowly over pacesetter Three Jokers and favored City Man.