Informed Decision held off defending champion Ventura to win Friday's $1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint at Santa Anita. Informed Decision was the 3-1 second choice behind 4-5 favorite Ventura.
The 26th edition of the Breeders' Cup World Championships got underway Friday at Santa Anita Park under sunny skies with a post-time temperature of 70 degrees. This is the second straight year the World Championships are being held at Santa Anita.
For an investment of $12,500, Mambo Meister already has produced more thrills and profits than five South Floridians and two other friends expected.
Day One of the 26th Breeders' Cup World Championships has gotten underway at Santa Anita Park with Man of Iron winning the $500,000 Marathon. Ridden by John Murtagh, Man of Iron defeated Cloudy's Knight by a nose in the 1 3/4 mile race.
European invader Midday held off a late running Pure Clan to win Friday's $2 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita. Finishing third was 2008 winner Forever Together.
Life Is Sweet has won the $2 million Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic, going from last to first with a stretch run on the far outside.
Though this could be called the year of the female in thoroughbred racing, Ladies' Day at the Breeders' Cup Friday is lacking in star power.
While the Kentucky Derby is the 'most exciting two-minutes in sports', the two-day Breeders' Cup races are the most important days in racing.
Random drug tests will begin next year for horses in polo matches in the U.S. after the deaths of 21 elite horses in Florida that were injected with an incorrectly mixed supplement shortly before a championship match, the United States Polo Association said Wednesday.
She's a mare set to race against a dozen of the world's most daunting male horses for the first time in her career, but Zenyatta seems to be the one inspiring fear.
Undefeated mare Zenyatta will take on males for the first time in Saturday's $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita Park. The 1 1/4 mile race is the concluding event of the 26th annual Breeders' Cup World Championships to be run Friday and Saturday.
Shocking captured the $5 million Melbourne Cup on Tuesday for his second victory in four days, outdueling Crime Scene in the stretch to win by three-quarters of a length.
The next to last NTRA Thoroughbred Poll shows no changes in the positions of the top ten vote getters with the Breeders' Cup on the horizon. The World Championships take place on Friday and Saturday at Santa Anita Park.
Sassy Image beat Decelerator by two lengths Sunday in the $115,900 Pocahontas as the 21-day fall meet opened at Churchill Downs.
NASCAR red-flagged Sunday's race at Talladega following a spectacular crash involving Ryan Newman with five laps remaining.
Golf legend Gary Player has been awarded the first ever Breeders' Cup Sports and Racing Excellence Award.
Jockey Julia Brimo has been hospitalized in critical condition following a spill at Keeneland.
New York's top racetracks are off limits to trainer Jeff Mullins for six months.
Remember back to the early part of this year. Before Mine That Bird shocked the racing world with his 'out of nowhere' victory in the Kentucky Derby.
Zenyatta, 2008 Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic winner, is slated to be the favorite for this year's running of the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday, November 7. This would be the five-year-old mare 's first career start against males.
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