The 40th edition of the Breeders’ Cup, thoroughbred racing’s two-day, 14-race extravaganza with more than $31 million in prize money, opens with Future Stars Friday at Santa Anita Park. Friday’s...
By Mike Farrell It was a wild and wacky Breeders’ Cup. It’s all over except for the counting, as in the Eclipse Awards. One of the founders’ goals for the Breeders’ Cup was the...
By Richard Rosenblatt Congratulations Knicks Go, you’re the Horse of the Year, and you did it by leading from start to finish, as usual. Zipping to the lead on the first jump out of the gate, the st...
By Ed McNamara The royal blue silks of Godolphin have dominated international racing since the Nineties. This weekend the blue wave became a tsunami with three victories at Del Mar, where “The T...
By Ed McNamara Modern Games wasn’t hurt, but the veterinarians standing nearby didn’t realize that. While his stablemate, Albahr, was flipping over in the stall next to him, an assistant s...
By US Racing Team Essential Quality has been nearly perfect in nine races, his only loss coming in a 19-horse field in the Kentucky Derby (G1) forced him into a wide trip. And so, after asking our usr...
By US Racing Team Without a doubt, Letruska is clearly the one to beat in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) on Saturday at Del Mar. The 5-year-old daughter of Super Saver (2010 Kentucky Derb...
By Richard Rosenblatt Future Stars Friday on day 1 of the two-day, $31 million, 14-race Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar was a doozy. In what will likely be one of the most awkward days in Breeders’ Cup h...
By Richard Rosenblatt For weeks now, Brad Cox has been asked in so many ways to tell us who has the better chance of winning the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), Essential Quality or Knicks Go...
By Margaret Ransom The Juvenile (G1) is one of the seven original Breeders’ Cup races and still carries the significant clout of deciding who the early favorite will be for the following year’s Ke...
