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Ingordo discusses building Determined Stables' racing and broodmare operations after the latest addition at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

It was a selective day's trade at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Horses in Training Sale Oct. 9, but steady figures and robust international participation offered encouragement for the continued growth of Australia's 2-year-old breeze-up scene.

The highlight on the second Saturday of the Keeneland fall meet is the $800,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1T), a 1 1/8-mile turf test for 3-year-old fillies.

The Dewhurst Stakes (G1) promises to be one of the best juvenile races of the season after leading hopes Gstaad, Distant Storm, and Zavateri were declared in a nine-runner field set to go 7 furlongs Oct. 11 at Newmarket Racecourse.

The 2025 TAKE2 Jet Run Award winners are After the Races and CANTER USA.

Turnover for the three-day sale was 127,226,000 guineas for the 395 horses who changed hands. The average price was 322,090 guineas, with a median of 210,000 guineas, all down slightly from last year's Book 1 results.

Matt Laurie is confident that a wide draw will be no barrier to success for Vinrock in the Caulfield Guineas (G1) over 1,600 meters (1 mile) as the crack colt headlines the stable's three-pronged attack on the stallion-making contest Oct. 11. 

Toby Moore, son of legendary Ballydoyle top jockey Ryan Moore, is set to make his much-anticipated riding debut at Kempton Park Oct. 10 when he partners Valdorcia for Godolphin and Charlie Appleby in a 6-furlong fillies' novice.

The Tattersalls October Yearling Sale is one of if not the premier yearling sale in the world. So it shouldn't be a surprise that buyers anchored in the United States are not only making their way there but spending even more each…

Letters to the Editor from the Oct. 9 issue of BH Daily.