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Enjoy your steeplechase holiday last week? File an open weekend followed by a weekend with three race meets under “dumb things about American steeplechasing” and get ready for action from Montpelier in Virginia and Callaway Gardens in Georgia on Saturday, plus the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup on Sunday.

The Breeders’ Cup World Championships returns to Southern California and to Del Mar for its 38th edition this weekend and everything starts with Future Stars Friday.

Roger Horgan knows you saw Letruska’s breeze at Del Mar Saturday morning. The one where the Breeders’ Cup Distaff favorite hooked up with another horse for much of the way and then let that rival-for-a-day gallop away in the stretch.

Horgan, the man with the reins in his hands, would also like you to forget about it.

Knicks Go bids to lock up Horse of the Year honors and cap a near-perfect season against seven others in Saturday’s $6 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar.

As the Saratoga Race Course meeting winds down each September, horsemen begin to make their seasonal pilgrimage back downstate to Belmont Park, taking along most of their horses to prepare for the fall meet. 

Get up and do it again. While not quite the schedule of flat racing, the jump season gets busy in October with important races every weekend. This Saturday, it’s Virginia’s turn again as the International Gold Cup races head to the post at Great Meadow in The Plains. Post time on the eight-race card is 12:30 p.m. and there’s a little bit for everyone.

The Mean Queen won the big one, but Saturday’s Far Hills Races included plenty of other thrills as the New Jersey meet went to the post for the 100th time – and first since 2019 after Covid shut down last year’s schedule.

Running to the last fence of Saturday’s American Grand National hurdle stakes at the Far Hills Races, The Mean Queen cocked her right ear and braced for a challenge. She got one as Snap Decision arrived to her outside, intent on avenging a defeat a month earlier and snatching the Eclipse Award in the final Grade 1 of the season.

Here we are. After not happening in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and keeping tens of thousands of tailgaters at home, the Far Hills Races return Saturday. It’s the 100th running, so Happy Birthday or something but welcome back to the biggest meet on the National Steeplechase Association circuit.

Look at The Mean Queen and Snap Decision, favorites for Saturday’s Grade 1 American Grand National hurdle stakes at the Far Hills Races, really look at them and just start scribbling observations.