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...
Carl Spackler draws outside post 12 for Mile; BC on TV Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien’s entourage made their first appearance on the Del Mar track the other morning with the usual eye-catching parade led by Luxembourg (Breeders' Cup Turf), followed by Breeders' Cup Classic morning-line favorite Cit...
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...
This edition of the $2 million Distaff (race 7, post time 5:10 p.m.) features one of the most competitive fields in years. Idiomatic, riding a four-race winning streak for trainer Brad Cox, is the 5-2 morning-line favorite in a field of 11 fillies and mares going 1 1/8 miles. Our team of six came up...
The Breeders' Cup Distaff is a nine-furlong main track race for fillies and mares, three years old and up. It is one of the seven original Breeders’ Cup championship races. It was known as the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic between 2008 and 2012, but reverted to its more preferred and rightful ...
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