Counting Stars on her way to winning the 2026 Coaching Club American Oaks. Counting Stars settles the third round emphaticallyCounting Stars (#14 from #56) entered the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks with the score against Always A Runner (#59 from #71) in their three-year-old season standing at one victory each. The ascent of Counting Stars reflects the ability of a filly who changed the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks form in the Grade 1 Acorn Stakes before confirming her class. A sprint breakthroughListenupshance (#139 from #826) arrived at the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes without a Stakes victory and left with an automatic Breeders’ Cup Sprint berth. In sprints elsewhere, Built (#251 from #1122) won the Grade 2 Alfred G Vanderbilt Stakes and Maida (#365) the Grade 2 Honorable Miss Stakes.