Two days, 14 races, $34 million in prize money. Celebrating the Champions: Winners and Losers of the 41st Breeders’ Cup The 41st Breeders’ Cup is complete. The owners, trainer, jockeys and supporters of the 14 winners are likely still celebrating, wherever they may be around the world. A crowd o...
Heavily favored Thorpedo Anna put an emphatic exclamation point on her remarkable season on Saturday at Del Mar, brushing off her six rivals and pulling clear to a 2 ½- length triumph in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) and cementing her claim to Horse of the Year honors. Thorpedo Anna S...
Kyle Frey is having perhaps the best run of his career and will have three chances to bring home a winner in the Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar on Saturday. The 32-year-old Californian has the call aboard Mixto in the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), Gold Phoenix in the $5 million Breeders’ Cu...
When Kenny McPeek talks about his approach to buying horses, he can get pretty technical. “All of my career, I have been a middle or even lower market yearling buyer,” the trainer said. “In a way, it’s a good thing because there is no pressure. It’s all upside, and I have sharpened my eye ...
Champion mare Idiomatic, a five-time Grade 1 winner and defending Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) victor, has been retired from racing after she came up lame on Friday morning. "Unfortunately, it will rule her out of running in the Breeders' Cup and it has been decided to retire her to stud," breeder/o...
Back in 1984, in the inaugural running of the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1), the very classy Princess Rooney put on a performance that would set the tone for the race throughout its next 40 iterations. Undefeated in six starts as a juvenile in 1982, she won five of six starts the next year, including...
At age 5, Idiomatic may not be quite the same mare she was last year but try telling that to the five others she trounced in Sunday’s $600,000 Spinster Stakes (G1) at Keeneland on Sunday. The defending champion older mare rolled to an easy 6 ½-length victory over Occult in the 1 1/8-mile Spinster...
Adare Manor came up with a different way to win, stalking the pace, working through tight quarters and then rolling to victory in the $400,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (G1) at Del Mar Racetrack. The 5-year-old mare looks to be in championship running after her third straight victory and a repeat of ...
Bob Baffert plans to send out a couple of heavyweights on Saturday, top-rated National Treasure in the $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1) and highly-acclaimed Adare Manor in the $400,000 Clement L. Hirsch (G1) at Del Mar. National Treasure, the 2023 Preakness (G1) winner, is 2-for-3 as a 4-year-old, wit...
Idiomatic took the lead from Randomized heading into the stretch and held off all comers in posting a half-length victory in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) at Santa Anita Park on Saturday. The 4-year-old Curlin filly extended her winning streak to five in a row and likely clinched an Ec...
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