There were no changes in the Breeders’ Cup Classic Rankings this week as 3-year-old star Sovereignty and defending Classic champion Sierra Leone remained 1-2 in the top 10. Sovereignty, the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1) winner, is the 2-5 favorite in Saturday’s Travers Stakes (G1) ...
Aidan O'Brien has won just about every important European race multiple times, including the Juddmonte International (G1). He'll try for his eighth Juddmonte trophy Wednesday at York with the 3-year-old standout Delacroix. The Breeders' Cup Challenge "Win and You're In" event awards the winner a spo...
It may not be a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series “Win and You’re In" event, but make no mistake – the $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial (G1) is so deep that every horse in the field could wind up in a Breeders’ Cup race at Del Mar on Nov. 1. Let’s say this is one loaded […]...
Sovereignty rules, indeed. The Kentucky Derby (G1), Belmont Stakes (G1), and Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) winner will face just four challengers in the $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday (Aug. 23). The five-horse field is the smallest since 1994, when Holy Bull took on th...
E.P. Taylor (1901-1989) was a thoroughbred racing executive, owner and breeder whose influence on the sport extended far beyond his native Canada. His greatest contribution was his homebred Northern Dancer, the 1964 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) hero who became the greatest stallion ...
Sovereignty, the nation’s top 3-year-old and a leading contender for Horse of the Year, remains No. 1 in this week’s Breeders’ Cup Classic Top 10 rankings. Trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott, Sovereignty won the Kentucky Derby (G1), the Belmont Stakes (G1), and t...
After Christophe Clement upset the 2014 Belmont Stakes (G1) with Tonalist, he was no longer pigeon-holed as a turf trainer. But it was with grass runners that the Frenchman made his mark in America, and two-time Eclipse champion Gio Ponti was his best. Clement died May 25 of a rare eye cancer, and t...
The $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), the race that usually crowns the Horse of the Year, is shaping as one of the most contentious in its 42-year history. Sovereignty, the recent Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) winner after victories in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1), leads the first ...
When his racing career ends, Sierra Leone will be retired to stud to Coolmore America/Ashford Stud and his value as a stallion keeps rising and rising. The morning after Sierra Leone won the $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday to validate his star status, trainer Chad ...
No bumping, no jostling, no issues, no problem for Sierra Leone. Seizing the lead from a game Highland Falls in the stretch with his patented closing style, Sierra Leone won the $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1) in front of packed house at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, with favorite Fierceness fadi...
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