Mary Eddy

The Miss Grillo is one of two Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” qualifying races on Saturday’s lucrative card, offering the winner a berth into the Grade 1 Juvenile Fillies Turf in November at Keeneland. Also featured are the Grade 1, $500,000 Champagne, a one-turn mile qualifier for the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile; the Grade 1, $500,000 Woodward for 3-year-olds and up traveling nine furlongs; and the Grade 3, $200,000 Belmont Turf Sprint for 3-year-olds and up going six furlongs over the lawn.

Ryan Martin

WinStar Farm and CHC Inc.’s multiple Grade 1-winner and $4-million earner Life Is Good headlines Saturday’s 69th running of the Grade 1, $500,000 Woodward at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

Keith McCalmont

Jonathan Poulin, Westerberg, Mrs. John Magnier, Derrick Smith and Michael B. Tabor’s regally-bred Verifying, a half-brother to 2019 Champion Older Dirt Female Midnight Bisou, will make his stakes debut in Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Champagne, a one-turn mile for 2-year-olds, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

Mary Eddy

Gary Barber’s Grade 1-placed Make Mischief will make her first outing over the grass in Friday’s $125,000 John Hettinger, a nine-furlong inner turf test for New York-bred fillies and mares 3-years-old and up, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

Mary Eddy

Jockey Joel Rosario had to do no more than give a shake of the reins for Jonathan Poulin, Westerberg, Mrs. John Maginer, Derrick Smith and Michael Tabor's Kimari to overtake the lead in a deep stretch and score her second graded coup of the year in Sunday's Grade 2, $250,000 Gallant Bloom for fillies and mares 3-years-p;d and upward sprinting 6 1/2 furlongs at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

NYRA Press Office

​Reeves Thoroughbred Racing, Peter Searles and Patty Searles’ City Man has become a New York fan favorite, garnering stakes victories in each of his four years of training. The graded-stakes winning Empire State-bred added to his accomplishments on Saturday, setting a course record in the nine-furlong $125,000 Ashley T. Cole at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.