The series begins with the Lecomte (G3) at 1 1/16 miles, followed by the Risen Star (G2) at 1 1/8 miles, and concludes with the Louisiana Derby (G1) at 1 3/16 miles.

If there’s a 3-year-old male whose season has been a microcosm of the division, it would most likely be Tacitus.

A filly and a mare with a combined 16 wins—all of them in the Mid-Atlantic region—and $1.05 million in earnings will decide the 2019 MATCH Series overall championship when they meet in the $100,000 Regret Stakes Sept. 28 at Monmouth Park.

Since being imported to the U.S. from Europe, Beau Recall has been a top-performing grass mare over short route distances, winning five stakes, three of them graded, from a mile to a mile and sixteenth.

Madaket Stables, Slam Dunk Racing, and Michael Nentwig’s Air Strike will receive some class relief Sept. 28 when he ships from Phil D’Amato’s West Coast base to Churchill Downs for the $150,000 Ack Ack Stakes (G3).

The top three from the Aug. 17 Green Flash Handicap (G3T) at Del Mar—Mr Vargas, Eddie Haskell, and Stormy Liberal—are set to face off again in the $200,000 Eddie D Stakes (G2T) at Santa Anita Park Sept. 27.

A battle between two of the top older horses in the country looms Sept. 28 at Santa Anita Park when McKinzie and Higher Power meet in the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes (G1), a major steppingstone toward the Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic Nov. 2.

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 1,589 yearlings for its Kentucky October Yearlings Sale, to be held Oct. 21-24 at its sales grounds near Lexington. The four continuous sessions, conducted on Monday-Thursday, will begin each day at 10 a.m.

Trainer Luis Carvajal Jr. finds himself living in the past these days with Imperial Hint, but that’s easily explained and excused.

Enable came through her first assignment on turf since winning last month’s Darley Yorkshire Oaks (G1) in good fashion after paying her first visit to Newmarket’s Rowley Mile the morning of Sept. 25.

Keeneland announced Sept. 25 that its 2019 November Breeding Stock Sale will begin on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at noon, and run through Sunday, Nov. 17.

Fasig-Tipton has adjusted the date of The November Sale. Its selected breeding stock sale will now be held Tuesday, Nov. 5.  The sale had previously been scheduled for Nov. 4.

Twenty yearlings have been added to the Oct. 8 selected session and 29 have been supplemented to the Oct. 9 open session.

The son of More Than Ready will stand at Haras Old Friends in the region of Bagé.

After returning to the California market this past June with its inaugural 2-year-old sale at Santa Anita, Fasig-Tipton will hold the California Fall Yearlings Sale Sept. 26 at Fairplex in Pomona, Calif.