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One year after London Bridge became the first New York-bred to win a race at the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, horses bred in the Empire State are securing spots with an eye toward doing more damage at this year’s event.After Kentucky, New York is the first state to register more than one 2014 Breeders’ Cup Challenge winner. Palace earned his ...

After overwhelming rivals in the TVG Pacific Classic Stakes (gr. I) in his first stakes start against older horses, Shared Belief appears poised to make a run at history. Shared Belief Dominated the Pacific Classic - Benoit Photo The Candy Ride gelding reserved himself a spot in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) with his 2 3/4-length ...

Hello old friend. With its return to dirt racing this fall, Keeneland hopes to hear that greeting--cue Eric Clapton--from more horsemen interested in prepping their top starters for main-track races in this year’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships. When Keeneland after this year’s spring meet removed a remarkably safe Polytrack that ...

Throughout dual-classic winner California Chrome’s run through the Triple Crown races this season, Steve Coburn, the colt’s co-owner and co-breeder along with Perry Martin, talked about how they felt like they had a classic winner, and perhaps a Triple Crown winner, from the start. California Chrome won the Kentucky Derby Presented by ...

Leading Sires, by 2015 Breeders' Cup Challenge Winners Sire Number Galileo 5 Hard Spun 4 Bernardini 3 Scat Daddy 3 A.P. Indy 2 Colonel John 2 Danehill Dancer 2 Dubawi 2 ...

Location Number Kentucky 37 Ireland 15 Florida 4 Great Britain 3 Ontario 3 France 2 New Zealand 2 South Africa 2 Argentina 2 Australia 1 Brazil 1 ...

Winners of 2015 Breeders' Cup Challenge races and upcoming schedule (updated Oct. 7, final list for 2015.) Classic Horse, Sire, Challenge race won, trackAmerican Pharoah (KY), Pioneerof the Nile, William Hill Haskell Invitational S. (gr. I), Monmouth ParkArabian Queen (IRE), Dubawi, Juddmonte International Stakes (Eng-I), ...

More good news for connections of Moreno and his fans: In recent years, winners of the Whitney Handicap (gr. I) have enjoyed more Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) success than the winners of any other race conducted after June 1. Southern Equine Stable's Moreno ensured himself a spot in the Breeders' Cup Classic with his victory in the $1.5 ...

Welcome to the first edition of my blog Keeping Pace. I’ll largely be focused on the Breeders’ Cup Challenge series through the fall. If you guessed that the first three Breeders’ Cup Challenge “Win and You’re In,” qualifiers to this year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) would be Moonshine Mullin, Majestic Harbor, and Bayern--and found someone to ...

Racing Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas promised “more stories than Mother Goose,” and the four-time Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner—and a panel of five other Derby winners--delivered on that promise at the It’s my Derby evening Friday, April 18 at Keeneland. The fund-raising event for the Kentucky Derby Museum has quickly established ...