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Trainer Bob Baffert hopes to move a step closer to winning his first Breeders' Cup Classic when he sends out grade I winners Coil and Game On Dude in the Grade 1, $250,000 Goodwood Stakes Oct. 1 at Santa Anita.

After getting most of the summer off, late-running sensation Blind Luck will return to action in the Grade 1, $250,0000 Lady's Secret Stakes Oct. 1 at Santa Anita.

Uncle Mo will face older horses for the first time and tangle with the red-hot Jackson Bend in the Grade 2, $200,000 Kelso Handicap, one of six graded stakes at Belmont Park Oct. 1.

Cape Blanco and Teaks North, both two-time Grade 1 winners on turf this year, headline a star-studded six-horse field for the Grade 1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational that is part of the Oct. 1 stakes extravaganza at Belmont Park.

It drew only six, but the lucrative Grade 2 Cotillion Stakes from Parx Racing lured three of the top-ranked sophomore fillies in the nation -- each of them Grade 1 winners.

So while Scooter Dickey would like his 5-year-old horse to improve upon runner-up finishes in both the Whitney Handicap and Woodward Stakes at Saratoga when he runs in Saturday's $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park, a victory is not paramount.

Preakness winner Shackleford will cut back to 1 1/16 miles in Saturday's Grade 2 Indiana Derby at Hoosier Park in his final prep for the Breeders' Cup.

Blind Luck, in her final prep for the Grade 1 Lady's Secret Stakes on Saturday, worked a sharp half-mile in 47.60 seconds on Tuesday morning at Hollywood Park under her regular exercise rider, Marco Ramirez.

WinStar Farm is offering a complimentary breeding season to Tiznow for any filly or mare that wins the 2011 Breeders' Cup Classic on November 5 at Churchill Downs.