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We are all aware that the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and the Kentucky Derby are two totally separate entities, with only two of the 32 Juvenile winners going on to capture the Run for the Roses. This year, however, we not only have a deep, talented field for the Juvenile, but the vast majority of them also look like Derby horses in terms of ...

If there is one aspect of Thoroughbred racing where you can say the sport has come a long way, it is the on-air presence of so many talented female analysts and interviewers. It is an avenue that has been paved by females such as the great Charlsie Cantey, who was as knowledgeable about racing and provided as much, if not more, insight than ...

It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a year since American Pharoah capped his racing career with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) and harder still that it has been almost two years since California Chrome battled to the line with Bayern and Toast of New York in the ’14 Classic. The connections of racing’s brightest stars need to ...

They attack in droves, constantly searching for new lands to conquer. In the world of Thoroughbred racing, Aidan O’Brien can be called the modern day Alexander the Great and his four-legged Ballydoyle bruisers the Macedonian army. Alexander ruled a good portion of the world while in his 20s. Aidan O’Brien has looked like he’s in his 20s for as ...

The racing world lost more than a talented, classy racehorse on October 22. It lost a pioneer. Monarchos was not your average Kentucky Derby winner. He and his training team of John Ward, who was listed trainer, and his wife Donna paved new ground in how to prepare a horse to win the Derby. There have been countless horses who have had their one ...

Godolphin didn’t make the right decision pointing Frosted for the Breeders’ Cup Classic instead of the Dirt Mile. They made the only decision. Although many feel the son of Tapit has a better shot to win the Dirt Mile, there is absolutely no reason for Godolphin to pass up an opportunity to run in America’s richest race against the two ...

The hopes from the Breeders’ Cup for the breeding industry are that the day’s best runners would go on to advance the breed through their offspring. The breed-shapers of the day have indeed come out of Breeders’ Cup races…horses such as Galileo, who ran sixth behind Tiznow at Belmont Park in the 2001 Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) and has gone on ...

Question: How good is Arrogate and do you think he can beat California Chrome in the Breeders’ Cup Classic? Answer: I’ll let you know around the three-sixteenths pole. No, that isn’t much of an answer, but what other answer can you give? Do we really have a clue if Arrogate is going to come close to or duplicate his freakish performance in ...

With the Breeders’ Cup fields finally beginning to take shape and everyone having a much clearer picture of who the leading stars are, it is time to begin looking past November 4th and 5th and getting a long-range view of racing’s newest phenomenon, the $12 million Pegasus World Cup, which Steve Martin would describe as “a wild and crazy ...