Daily Racing Form

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational will again highlight the 2026-27 Gulfstream Park Championship Meeting. How much the race will be worth, however, is still to be determined. Gulfstream Park officials released the stakes schedule for the upcoming Championship meet on Friday but did so without listing the purses for the World Cup and its two supporting co-features, the Grade 1 Pegasus Turf Invitational and Grade 2 Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf.

Star 3-year-old Englishman got back to serious work Friday at Keeneland, where he turned in a strong breeze that appears to have him fully on track for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. Working solo very early Friday morning, Englishman, looking absolutely full of himself, went 25.30, 47.20, 58.30, and 1:12.00, per trainer Cherie DeVaux. The breeze, not yet officially logged early Friday, probably will be recorded as a half-mile followed by a serious gallop-out.

Summer Starlet, the impressive winner of the Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes at Saratoga, will miss the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Oct. 30 due to inflammation in a tendon in a hind leg, trainer Steve Asmussen said Friday. The inflammation came as a result of Summer Starlet being stepped on from behind by Oh She Said Yes during the running of the Grade 1 Alcibiades at Keeneland on Oct. 2. Asmussen said Summer Starlet would get 90 days off before being re-evaluated.

By Paul Ryding Brenton Avdulla struck a confident tone when discussing the prospects of his mount, Bustling City, in Sunday’s (11 October) Class 3 Lau Fau Shan Handicap (1200m, dirt) as the four-year-old seeks a hat-trick for trainer David Hayes.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Antonio Fresu has made a good first impression on New York horseplayers, booting home four double-digit-priced winners in his first three weeks riding at Belmont Park. Relocating from Southern California, Fresu won the first race run at the new Belmont Park when he rallied Lisa Joy to victory at 12-1 in a marathon turf maiden race for trainer Shug McGaughey on Sept. 18.

Ryan Thompson/Coglianese Photos Redland Rebels will be a single on many Rainbow 6 tickets Sunday at Gulfstream Park. Gulfstream ParkRace 4 Sunday, Oct. 11Post: 1:50 PM ET HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Redland Rebels was briefly on the Kentucky Derby trail earlier this season, a dream that ended following a sixth-place finish in the Arkansas Derby.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Preakness winner Napoleon Solo won’t have any problem coming from off the pace in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Friday at Belmont Park, Napoleon Solo worked six furlongs in 1:10.67 over the main track, getting his last quarter under urging from Emily Ellingwood in 22.04 seconds as he passed, on the inside, a pair of horses working for trainer Rudy Rodriguez.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Barbara Minshall sends out the promising duo of Uncle Dodo and Verge in Sunday’s $125,000 Display, one of two seven-furlong stakes for 2-year-olds on the Woodbine card along with the $125,000 Glorious Song for fillies. Uncle Dodo graduated from off the pace in his second start, July 12 in the 5 1/2-furlong Victoria Stakes, for which he got a 79 Beyer Speed Figure. Uncle Dodo tried the turf Aug.

Grand Slam Smile, a 10-time stakes winner, starts in an unfamiliar position as the 128-pound topweight in Sunday’s $100,000 California Distaff Handicap for statebred fillies and mares on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita. For the first time in her remarkable 23-race career, Grand Slam Smile has finished worse than third in her last two starts. She was fifth of seven in a highly productive running of the Grade 2 Great Lady M.

If Ag Bullet at anything close to full strength shows up, the other seven entrants in the Franklin Stakes on Sunday at Keeneland run for second money. If the Ag Bullet who showed up in August in Franklin, Ky., runs similarly on Sunday, she will not be winning the Grade 2, $400,000 Franklin, a 5 1/2-furlong turf dash for older fillies and mares.