Brendan Walsh took the lead out of the gate with a three-win day on opening day of the 17-day Fall Meet, and with 70% of the Keeneland Fall Meet in the books he is still in front.

Walsh shows no signs of slowing down with a trio of entrants in today’s $350,000 Rood & Riddle Dowager (G3). On Saturday, closing day of the season, he will send out Preakness (G1) and NYRA Bets Haskell (G1) runner-up Gosger in his first start against older runners in the $350,000 Hagyard Fayette (G3).

Walsh, who shared the 2025 Spring Meet training title with Brad Cox, has saddled eight winners with three of them coming in stakes, a total that matches Todd Pletcher as tops for the meet. Among the trio are Breeders’ Cup hopefuls Gin Gin and Imaginationthelady.

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

Calumet Farm’s Gin Gin won the Juddmonte Spinster (G1) to secure a berth in the Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1), where she will join 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) Presented by Keeneland Sales to earn a spot in the John Deere Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) on Oct. 31.

Walsh’s Breeders’ Cup runners are scheduled to leave for Del Mar on Monday, Oct. 27.