Keith McCalmont

Trainer David Donk will saddle a solid one-two punch with Thin White Duke and Yes and Yes in a loaded 12-horse field for Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Belmont Turf Sprint at six furlongs over the outer turf course, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

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.

Keith McCalmont

Chalk Racing’s Blame It On Daddy will look to earn black type in Thursday’s 29th renewal of the $125,000 Bertram F. Bongard, a seven-furlong sprint for New York-bred juveniles, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.