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It was a quiet Sunday morning at Churchill Downs Sept. 15, but you could feel the joy and excitement at the barn of trainer Phil Bauer as Iroquois Stakes inner Jonathan’s Way came out for his morning bath just after 7 a.m. ET.

Tom Pedulla offers takeaways from a racing weekend highlighted by competition at Toronto’s Woodbine Racetrack. Woodbine hosted three Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series races Saturday that offered automatic, fees-paid berths in corresponding contests at the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar.

Trainer Phil Bauer and owner Richard Rigney had plenty to celebrate after Rigney's Jonathan's Way wired the field for a handy 2 3/4-length score in the $254,745 Grade 3 Iroquois Stakes for 2-year-olds at

Slipping up the inside of front-running stablemate Filo Di Arianna, Win for the Money rallied to score a 13-1 upset under jockey Patrick Husbands in the Grade 1 $1 million Rogers Woodbine Mile Stakes Sept. 14 at Woodbine.

If you are still holding on to the last vestiges of summer, then you may want to close your eyes. The Road to the 2025 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve opens for business Saturday.

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