A highly competitive slate of graded stakes winners will contest the $1 million Big Ass Fans Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) Nov. 7 at Keeneland led by top sophomore Art Collector and last year’s Preakness Stakes (G1) winner War of Will.

A Breeders’ Cup victory by Battleground in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Presented by Coolmore America (G1T) Nov. 6 at Keeeland would be welcomed by the race sponsor.

Stablemates Authentic and Improbable will put their divisional advantages on the line when they face off in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) Nov. 7 as the two Bob Baffert-trainees lead the latest National Thoroughbred Racing Association polls.

This year’s Lexus Melbourne Cup (G1) will be unlike any other in the 159-year history of Australia’s greatest race.

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How strange has the 2020 racing season been? Consider that the two 3-year-old males pre-entered in the $6 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) will each enter the 1 1/4-mile race Nov. 7 at Keeneland off starts in the Triple Crown races.

Daniel Pita’s Princess Secret will not be permitted to run in the Nov. 6 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) after out-of-competition testing revealed the presence of the anabolic steroid Stanozolol.

A Nicholasville, Ky. compounding pharmacy and its owner who have been linked to a sweep that saw nearly 30 federal indictments earlier this year, entered guilty pleas Oct. 30 in federal court to unlawful distribution of compounded prescription drugs.

Among seven maiden winners of note, Godolphin’s Highway Bound, a son of Into Mischief and grade 1 winner Seventh Street, as well as Cave Hill, won maiden races at two separate tracks.

Chad Brown posted 22 wins to earn the status as top trainer for the Belmont Park fall meet for the ninth consecutive year, while Jose Ortiz registered 40 victories to lead all riders. Klaravich Stables campaigned 13 winners to pace all owners.

Al and Bill Ulwelling’s 2-year-old colt Stephen tracked down the front-running Tio Magico for a 1 1/4 length victory in the Coronation Futurity at Woodbine.

Improbable worked six furlongs in 1:11 2/5 Nov. 1 on a fast track at Santa Anita Park to complete his final major preparations before shipping to Keeneland for the Nov. 7 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1).

Hollie Doyle is hoping her recent success story at home can expand worldwide this month, including in Bahrain, where she has picked up the key ride on star Japanese mare Deirdre in their showpiece event, the £500,000 International Trophy.

Jackie’s Warrior was named by his breeders, Jennie and John Williams of J and J Stables, to honor Jennie’s sister, Jackie Ross, a brain cancer survivor in remission. The name was kept by current owners Kirk and Judy Robison.

Elite globetrotter Magic Wand is to be covered in Australia by Justify as she joins the Coolmore broodmare band.

Spun to Run, winner of the 2019 Big Ass Fans Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), will enter stud at Gainesway in 2021, the Lexington farm announced Nov. 1.

Trainer Bill Mott has four of his six Breeders’ Cup pre-entrants at Keeneland, and he put that quartet through works on a breezy morning Nov. 1 over a fast track.

Multiple grade/group 1-producing broodmare Joy Valley has died from infirmities of old age, Taylor Made Farm announced Oct. 30. She was 31 years old.

Almond Eye ran home first and into the record books Nov. 1, winning the Tenno Sho (Autumn, G1) with a smooth trip up and down the Tokyo Racecourse stretch for her eighth grade 1 victory on the turf.

Odds-on favorite Dreaming of Drew delivered on her pari-mutuel promise in the 75th edition of the CA$250,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes for Canadian-foaled 2-year-old fillies Oct. 31 at Woodbine.