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This year's Perfect Trip Award will recognize a Breeders' Cup Challenge race winner from this season's North American races that best exemplifies a ''Perfect Trip''. The winner will be selected from a panel of racing experts and will have the opportunity to experience his or her own ''Perfect Trip'' through Sentient Jet, with ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA A new feature you will now find on ntra.com - with a direct link right off our home page - is  our Breeders' Cup Divisional Blogs section.  We have 15 individual contributors-one assigned to each Breeders' Cup race , and one assigned to the international contenders as a whole.  ...

This year's Perfect Trip Award will recognize a Breeders' Cup Challenge race winner from this season's North American races that best exemplifies a ''Perfect Trip''. The winner will be selected from a panel of racing experts and will have the opportunity to experience his or her own ''Perfect Trip'' through Sentient Jet, with ...

Joan of Arc defeated the English in the Hundred Years' War. The Amazon queen Penthesileia killed hundreds of Greeks in the Trojan War. Zenobia, the Syrian queen, crushed the Roman legion. All three of these powerful and feared female warriors eventually succumbed to male foes. So far, the same cannot be said of Rachel Alexandra, who ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA  Rachel Alexandra has waged a truly historic campaign this year, and we're not halfway through September.  The marvelous 3-year-old filly has taken on the best of her male contemporaries twice and beaten them each time-in the Preakness and in the Haskell. The last two ...

By Rob Fundter, The Amateur Capper  In every division, there will be many compelling vignettes on both days of the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships.  The cream is rising to the top as we are a little more than eight weeks out from a weekend of thrilling competition.  Eliminate all negative thoughts of what ...

Todd Pletcher was seen making a beeline for the parking lot shortly after he was assured that the two horses he saddled in the Hopeful had come back from the race safely.  There was no reason for him to hang around for the eleventh.  He didn't have a horse running and Linda Rice had sewn up the training title already.  The ...

Commentator was feted in the paddock and the winner's ring between the fourth and the fifth races.  The winner of eight stakes including two Whitney Handicaps, the popular New York-bred looked just a bit chubby under tack and the schlub on his back just a little bit tacky.  Someone please explain why rider Carlos Correa couldn't ...