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The Triple Crown season is finished, but this year’s 3-year-old division is far from settled and big races such as the TVG.com Haskell Stakes in a couple of weeks and the Runhappy Travers Stakes in late August will go a long way toward determining which horses from a competitive group will emerge as leading Eclipse Award candidates.

Each week a panel of media members, horseplayers, and Breeders’ Cup World Championships officials release a poll tabulating their votes on the nation's top contenders for the 2022 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic.

The fields for the 14 races that comprise the Breeders’ Cup World Championships really begin to come into focus in summer and fall, and just last weekend we witnessed several breakout performances.

Tom Pedulla presents five key takeaways from the $740,000 Stephen Foster Stakes at Churchill Downs, which carried an automatic expense-paid berth in the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland, and other major developments during the holiday weekend:

As assistant trainer Kenny McCarthy noted July 2, Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott knows something about win streaks, having trained dual Horse of the Year Cigar to 16 consecutive victories. Now he's got another classy stakes horse racking up the wins, albeit a mini streak next to Cigar's achievement.

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