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One of two major races in the United States this Saturday for two-year-old colts, the (G1) Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park offers both points toward qualifying for the 2019 Kentucky Derby, as well as a spot for the winner in the 2018 Breeders' Cup Juvenile. The Champagne is run at one mile on the Belmont dirt, and offers a total purse of $500,000.

The first of three Grade 1 stakes to be run at Keeneland Race Course on Saturday, the $400,000 First Lady Stakes has drawn an excellent field of 10 fillies and mares to run a flat mile on the Keeneland turf course. The winner grabs an automatic spot in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf on November 3 at Churchill Downs.

With all the horses running at their special distance and on their special surface, every one of the 14 races that make up the Breeders' Cup weekend is a championship in its own right. With six weeks to go before the racing kicks off at Churchill Downs on November 2, here's a look at possible outright winners in a handful of races.

One of the biggest race days of the Kentucky Downs' summer meet comes this Saturday with the running of four graded stakes on the turf, including the $750,000 (G3) Kentucky Turf Cup. The race has drawn a full field of 12 starters and four Also Eligibles to run the 1 1/2 miles on the turf course, including the defending 2017 champion Oscar Nominated.

Two-year-old fillies are on display in the first of two Grade 1 races from Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, with the running of the $350,000 Spinaway Stakes. They'll be racing seven furlongs over the dirt course, with an automatic entry into the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies race on November 3 at Del Mar Race Track going to the winner.

Star thoroughbred Gun Runner gets back to the track this Saturday as the clear favorite in the $750,000 (G1) Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. For horses age three and older, they'll race 1 1/8 miles on the dirt, in the second of two Grade 1 races on the day, during the final weekend of the 2017 Saratoga summer meet.

I think it's fair to say that most of America wants to see American Pharaoh complete the 12th Triple Crown in horse racing history at Saturday's 147th running of the […]

Kentucky Derby winner American Pharoah will start from Post 1 in Saturday's 140th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico in Baltimore and the colt is the heavy  4/5 favorite […]