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Eyebrows rose in August 2014 after Breeders' Cup announced the 2015 World Championships would be held at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington. Many wondered how a racetrack with an attendance record of nearly 40,700 was going to host an international event that had drawn more than 65,000 at other venues in the past. The worst was expected regarding ...

With a police escort, Triple Crown winner American Pharoah was transported by a Brook Ledge van from Keeneland to Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky., where he will begin his stud career. Bob, Jill and Bode Baffert also were in the entourage along with Jimmy Barnes, Eduardo Luna, Jorge Alvarez and others. Barnes walked the champ off the van and ...

At 2 a.m Sunday morning, America turned the clocks back an hour. Approximately eight hours earlier, the Thoroughbred racing world turned the clocks back 40, 50, 60 years, back to the Golden Era of the sport when there were Triple Crown winners who would go on to earn their place among the truly greats.There have been many great colts and geldings ...

  By TimeformUS Analyst Justin Finch The Breeders’ Cup Classic has a field of 9 horses going a mile and 1/4 on the dirt. The clear favorite on the morning line is American Pharoah.The TimeformUS Pace Projector shows American Pharoah (#4) on a clear and comfortable early lead, but it's even clearer now that Beholder has scratched. He is now ...

This is going to be short and hopefully sweet Saturday JUVENILE FILLIES – You can either look at this race as Songbird’s to lose or an East-West showdown between Songbird and Rachel’s Valentina. Or there is a third way to look at – more wide-open than most people think. After all, if you like Rachel’s Valentina you have to like Tap to It. If ...

As always, there are a number of solid favorites in this year’s Breeders’ Cup, some of whom are going to be very tough to beat. But as is also the case every year, there will be several longshots that come in, some at huge prices. The toughest past of the Breeders’ Cup is finding them among the morass of top-class horses who will be ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman This is it, folks! The post positions have been drawn, the fields are set, and it’s time to try to find the winners of the thirteen Breeders’ Cup races! Without further ado, here are my choices… Juvenile Turf (gr. I) Top Selection: With the talented European shippers Cymric and Hit It ...

Trackside mornings in the week before the Breeders’ Cup World Championships are frantic times. The coordination of getting horses ready for their works, getting back and forth between the grandstand and the barn area to watch the works, and keeping close tabs on how the horses are settling in is all-consuming regardless of where the races are ...

Now that entries have been drawn, let’s get the final Breeders’ Cup Classic analysis in the books and then go over the rest of the Breeders’ Cup card later in the week and look for longshot specials to keep an eye on. If you’re looking for reasons to bet American Pharoah and Beholder, and even Honor Code, this isn’t the place to come, although ...

As Ralph Kramden would say, “One of these days, bang! zoom!” You know it’s going to happen. It’s just a matter of when. You know that one of these days Aidan O’Brien is going to set off that bang and that zoom in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. O’Brien has come agonizingly close on several occasions and he’s back yet again, this time with his ...