September 21, 2018

After nearly eight months away, Speedway Stable's Collected is scheduled to be back in the starting gate Sept. 22 against eight challengers in the $150,000 Pa Derby Champion Stakes going 1 1/16 miles at Parx Racing.

Thunder Snow, Godolphin's Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline (G1) winner, has settled into the Belmont Park quarantine barn for his bid in the Sept. 29 Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1).

The center of the racing universe Sept. 22 is Parx Racing, which puts on three graded stakes for 3-year-olds, including the the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G1) and the $1 million Cotillion Stakes (G1).

Shirley Day Smith, who worked as an administrative assistant in the New York Racing Association press office for more than 60 years, died Sept. 20. She was 99.

Nearly six months after surgery to repair fractures in two sesamoid bones in his right front leg, The Player was released Sept. 20 and arrived at trainer Buff Bradley's farm the following afternoon.

Melmich, a 7-year-old son of Wilko, can hit the $1 million mark in earnings with a repeat win in the $125,000 Durham Cup Stakes (G3), one of two stakes slated for Sept. 23 at Woodbine.

If cuteness sells horses, then the one-horse S & G Thoroughbreds consignment at the Sept. 22 penultimate session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale has an advantage over all other consignors.

The 4-year-old is preparing to make the trip to Australia

Jockey Perry Ouzts got his first victory in Ohio back in 1973 and won the 7,000th race of his career in the Buckeye State Sept. 21.