After a banner day at the races Thursday with two impressive new winners, young sire Mucho Macho Man had a good day at the sales Friday with a $170,000 filly from his second crop topping the single-session Book 5 of Keeneland September. A total of 287 yearlings changed hands Friday for a gross of $5,313,000,

Team Valor International has acquired recent G3 Prix La Rochette winner The Black Album (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) and will point him to the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Nov. 2. It was the juvenile’s third win in four starts. “This colt is just the right size for American racing, with tremendous athleticism,” Team Valor

Shirley Day Smith, who spent more than 60 years as the administrative assistant in the press office for the New York Racing Association and its predecessors, died Sept. 20 after a brief illness at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, NY. She was 99-years-old. Smith had retired from NYRA in the mid-1990’s. “Shirley was loved

Over 34 years and hundreds of races, the Breeders’ Cup has provided many a thrill and many a great race. But virtually everyone agrees that one race stands alone–the 1988 Distaff won by Personal Ensign. It may have been the greatest Breeders’ Cup race ever run. This year marks the 30th anniversary of that race.

The brilliant 3-year-old filly Monomoy Girl (Tapizar), a perfect five-for-five this season, gets back to business in Saturday’s GI Cotillion S. at Parx. The GI Kentucky Oaks heroine, freshened following an easy win over Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute) and Chocolate Martini (Broken Vow) in the GI Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga July 22, seeks