Brilliant Berti regained top honors in Sunday’s Gun Runner S. at Kentucky Downs, and promising juveniles Tiztastic, May Day Ready, and Kilwin scored their first stakes victories.

In years past, international legend Frankie Dettori would have been riding in the Oaks (G1) at Epsom on Friday.

Red Carpet Ready engaged the heavily favored Munnys Gold in Friday’s Eight Belles (G2) at Churchill Downs and eventually scored by a diminishing head.

Speed reigned supreme in two of the three turf stakes at Churchill Downs on Saturday, making Set Piece’s last-to-first victory in the $300,000 Wise Dan S. (G2) all the more commendable.

Cherie DeVaux registered her first graded stakes victory as a trainer in Saturday’s $150,000 Regret S. (G3), the highlight of three turf stakes on Stephen Foster Preview Day at Churchill Downs.

With a Breeders' Cup automatic bid at hand, as well as implications, Keeneland's First Lady and Shakertown S. revealed a lot.