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LFG Racing LLC's Anglophile struck for his first stakes win Sunday at Kentucky Downs when upstaging favorite Far Bridge in the $1-million National Thoroughbred League Dueling Grounds Derby (G3).

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Town and Country Racing’s Temple City Terror, perfectly handled by Jose Ortiz, rallied to a comfortable 1 1/2-length score in Friday’s $300,000 Long Island (G3), an 11-furlong inner turf test for fillies and mares at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Earning a first graded stakes success in the Grade 3 Dowager Stakes at Keeneland, Temple City Terror (by Temple City) is no Silky Sullivan (more on him later). For one thing, she doesn’t drop far enough out of her races.

Pocket Aces Racing and Somewhere Stable Kentucky’s Temple City Terror uncorked a sweeping move on the far turn that propelled her to the front at the top of the stretch en route to a three-length victory in the $294,688 Rood & Riddle Dowager (G3) for fillies and mares Sunday at Keeneland.

Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale ended its record run on Saturday with gross sales of $405,495,700, the highest in Keeneland auction history, and September Sale records for average ($142,429) and median ($70,000) prices.

Desire for premium Thoroughbred racing prospects from the world’s leading horsemen continued to fuel heady trade during Tuesday’s second session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, which realized strong gains and the sale of 13 seven-figure horses led by a colt by Constitution for $1.8 million.