Make A Wish day

Keeneland's 2025 Fall Meet is set to be the most lucrative in the track's history when it kicks off Friday, Oct. 3, and will also highlight a re-imagined saddling paddock--among other projects--for the 17-day season, the track announced Friday. The purses for 22 stakes during the course of the meet will be worth a total of $10.85-million, led by the GI Coolmore Turf Mile at $1.25-million that Saturday, Oct. 4 during Fall Stars weekend. It will dually function as a showcase of horses taking aim at the Breeders' Cup World...

The 2021 Fall Meet at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky, closed Oct. 30, with record all-sources wagering of better than $181 million over the course of 17 days of live racing at the historic facility. When the dust had settled Saturday afternoon, all-sources wagering (not including whole-card simulcasting at Keeneland) totaled $181,009,626, obliterating the previous record of $164,680,229 established during this year's Spring Meet and the previous Fall Meet record of $160,207,916 set in 2019. This year's all-sources wagering numbers represented a 22% increase over last fall's $148,229,708. Keeneland...