Multiple Eclipse Award-winning rider Irad Ortiz Jr. knows how to play a good hand when it’s dealt. Ortiz expected to rate Cy Fair just a bit in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1T) Oct. 31 at Del Mar but when the daughter of Not This Time broke well in the 5-furlong test,…
Back against her own sex, Queen Maxima left little doubt who was best in the $201,000 Senator Ken Maddy Stakes, rallying to a decisive score Oct. 31 at Del Mar. A multiple graded stakes victress sprinting on the turf, Queen Maxima’s connections pondered racing their star filly in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1T). The…
The Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale came to a close Oct. 31 after five days of selling and the final figures came to 1,009 lots selling for 33,867,500 guineas (US$46,737,150, 1 guinea=US$1.38) (down 5%), at an average of 33,565 guineas (US$46,320) (down 4%) and median of 15,000 guineas (US$20,700) (down 6%). Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said:…
Mid-week disappointment for the connections and fans of presumptive 3-year-old champion male Sovereignty —scratched from the Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) on Oct. 29 due to running a fever—turns to opportunity for the nine remaining entrants in the $7 million race at Del Mar. Without the race headliner, the race appears up for grabs—with all but Sierra…
Eclipse champion and multiple grade 1 victor Game Winner has been relocated to Haras Fazenda Mondesir in Brazil after standing there for his first Southern Hemisphere breeding season this year, reported Lane’s End Oct. 31. Game Winner, who entered stud at Lane’s End in 2021 alongside his sire Candy Ride , is a second-crop sire. He…
October 31, 2025 8:27 AM 3:33 Trainer Graham Motion highlights his two Breeders’ Cup runners: One Stripe (SAF), the 2024/25 Equus champion miler in South Africa, and Turf Star, runner-up in Keeneland‘s Bourbon Stakes (G2T). View Comments Source link
With the thinnest cloud cover in the sky and spectacular temperatures the morning of Oct. 31, Del Mar prepared to roll out the red carpet for the 42nd Breeders’ Cup World Championships. Del Mar is hosting the 14-race event for the fourth time after previously welcoming Breeders’ Cup in 2017, 2021, and 2024. There will be…
With the thinnest cloud cover in the sky and spectacular temperatures the morning of Oct. 31, Del Mar prepared to roll out the red carpet for the 42nd Breeders’ Cup World Championships. Del Mar is hosting the 14-race event for the fourth time after previously welcoming Breeders’ Cup in 2017, 2021, and 2024. There will be…
While many of Japan’s best are at Del Mar, some good ones remained at home to contest the Nov. 2 Tenno Sho (Autumn) (G1) at Tokyo Racecourse—a race that has come to test 3-year-olds against older horses for the first time. The race also provides a shorter alternative to contenders from the first two legs…
Even with a seven-horse field for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), trainer Chad Summers has no regrets about his unbeaten, grade 1-winning 2-year-old Napoleon Solo being in Kentucky instead of Del Mar at the moment. Normally a 6 1/2-length winner of the Champagne Stakes (G1) would be bound for the World Championships and…
