For finishing second in the World Series, each of the Toronto Blue Jays will receive an estimated $350,000, based on attendance receipts during the Major League Baseball playoffs. This would be the definition of a small consolation, since baseball at the pinnacle of the game is one of those zero-sum endeavors, as defined by the…
Jockey Flavin Prat knows all too well not to get overly excited about that day’s rides. What might seem like a big day in the making can easily end in disappointment. But sometimes the horse racing gods shine down upon you. That’s what Prat experienced Nov. 2 when he won a track record seven…
Godolphin achieved a spectacular brace of wins Nov. 1 at Flemington on Derby Day, each with homebred colts as Tentyris and Observer stamped their class when taking the Coolmore Stud Stakes (G1) and Victoria Derby (G1) respectively under jockey Mark Zahra. Beginning the red-letter day, Tentyris was produced to perfection in Saturday’s time-honored 1,200-meter contest,…
The two 3-year-olds in the Tenno Sho (Autumn) (G1) field, Masquerade Ball and Museum Mile, showed their elders how it’s done Nov. 1 at Tokyo Racecourse and jockey Christophe Lemaire made a statement of his own with his third top-level victory in as many weeks. The 2,000-meter (about 1 1/4 miles) Tenno Sho frequently is…
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Charlie Appleby was still blinking in disbelief at the result of the race run more than an hour earlier when it came time to saddle favored Notable Speech for the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1T), as the autumn shadows lengthened Nov. 1 on day two of the spectacle at Del Mar. As far as Appleby was concerned,…
Expectations and anticipation have surrounded Nysos throughout his career, but injuries and setbacks have kept him from reaching America’s biggest racing stages. When he finally had the opportunity Nov. 1 to break from the gate on one of those stages, the Breeders’ Cup, he did not disappoint and earned himself his first grade 1 victory for…
Owner Peter Brant has campaigned champion horses and has captured many of the world’s biggest horse races but in the closing Breeders’ Cup race of 2025 he checked another box with Gezora . “I had never had a Prix de Diane winner turn around and win a Breeders’ Cup race,” Brant said while savoring the Breeders’…
All-sources handle for the two-day Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar was $180,036,799, the third-highest wagering in the history of the event and a small increase over the 2024 figure of $179,218,631. Total common-pool handle on the 12-race Breeders’ Cup card Nov. 1, was $118,028,444. All-sources common-pool handle on Breeders’ Cup’s 10-race Future Stars Friday…
It is commonplace for sharp-dressed trainer Todd Pletcher to be wearing a tie on a stakes afternoon. But on Nov. 1, Breeders’ Cup Saturday, the one he was sporting at Del Mar carried some personal significance. It belonged to his friend and mentor, D. Wayne Lukas, who died this summer at the age of 89….
