Walsh keeps winning at Keeneland en route to Breeders’ Cup

Brendan Walsh took the lead out of the gate with three wins on opening day of the 17-day fall meet. With 70% of the Keeneland fall in the books, he still is in front in the trainers standings.

Walsh shows no signs of slowing down, especially after Venencia won Sunday in the Grade 3, $350,000 Dowager Stakes.

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Next weekend on closing Saturday, Walsh sends out Preakness and Haskell (G1) runner-up Gosger in his first start against older runners when he goes in the $350,000 Fayette (G3).

Walsh, who shared the 2025 spring-meet training title with Brad Cox, has saddled nine winners, two more than Brad Cox and Steve Asmussen. His four in stakes are one better than Pletcher. Among that quartet are Breeders’ Cup hopefuls Gin Gin and Imaginationthelady.

“Gin Gin is here, and Imaginationthelady is at Turfway Park,” said Walsh, who has another Breeders’ Cup hopeful, Clicquot, at Churchill Downs. “They will have their last work Friday or Saturday, depending on the weather.”

Calumet Farm’s Gin Gin won the Spinster (G1) to secure a berth in the Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Del Mar. That is where she will line up against X-Men Racing IV, Madaket Stables and SF Racing’s Clicquot, winner of the Cotillion (G1) at Parx last month.

Mark Dobbin’s Imaginationthelady won the opening-day Jessamine (G2) to earn a spot in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Oct. 31.

Walsh’s Breeders’ Cup runners are scheduled to leave for California next Monday.