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Calumet Farm’s impressive 5 ¼-length allowance winner Running Bee leads a field of 11 3-year-olds that were entered in Sunday’s 17th running of the $300,000 Commonwealth Turf (G3) on closing day at Churchill Downs.

Conditioner David Donk will have two chances to capture his first $150,000 Aqueduct Turf Sprint Championship with Thin White Duke and Yes and Yes in Friday’s six-furlong outer turf sprint for 3-year-olds and up at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Trainer Danny Gargan will saddle a pair of formidable contenders as Reeves Thoroughbred Racing’s Dakota Gold and Arnmore Thoroughbreds’ Kentucky homebred Riot House take on Saturday’s $135,000 Gio Ponti, a 1 1/16-mile outer turf route for sophomores, at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Keystone Field won Saturday’s $199,875 Claiming Crown Jewel at Churchill Downs on a day dedicated to horses that have run in claiming races.

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 Irad Ortiz Jr. cemented his status as meet-leading rider with three wins, including two stakes scores, on Empire Showcase Day, a special 10-race card for New York-breds Sunday on closing day of the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

Nice Guys Stables’ King Cause may have been the oldest horse in a 10-horse field, but the 7-year-old son of Creative Cause pulled off a 14-1 upset to land his first graded stakes victory in Sunday’s $150,000 Knickerbocker (G3) at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

Nagirroc will make his stakes debut off two weeks' rest in Sunday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Futurity, a six-furlong outer turf sprint for juveniles, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

Towhead, who just missed breaking her maiden by a nose in the Aristocrat Gaming Juvenile Fillies (L) at Kentucky Downs on Sept. 3, headlines a field of 12 2-year-old fillies plus four also-eligibles entered Tuesday for the 32nd running of the $350,000 JPMorgan Chase Jessamine (G2) going 1 1/16 miles on the Keeneland turf course.

The Elkstone Group’s Maryland homebred Lifelovenlaughter steps up to stakes company out of a three-quarter-length maiden special weight triumph Sept. 9 at Pimlico Race Course going the Selima distance. Trained by Michael Trombetta, she closed to be third in a 5 ½-furlong maiden special weight Aug. 16 at Colonial Downs.