Eclipse champion and multiple grade 1 victor Game Winner has been relocated to Haras Fazenda Mondesir in Brazil after standing there for his first Southern Hemisphere breeding season this year, reported Lane’s End Oct. 31. Game Winner, who entered stud at Lane’s End in 2021 alongside his sire Candy Ride , is a second-crop sire. He…
With the thinnest cloud cover in the sky and spectacular temperatures the morning of Oct. 31, Del Mar prepared to roll out the red carpet for the 42nd Breeders’ Cup World Championships. Del Mar is hosting the 14-race event for the fourth time after previously welcoming Breeders’ Cup in 2017, 2021, and 2024. There will be…
October 31, 2025 8:27 AM 3:33 Trainer Graham Motion highlights his two Breeders’ Cup runners: One Stripe (SAF), the 2024/25 Equus champion miler in South Africa, and Turf Star, runner-up in Keeneland‘s Bourbon Stakes (G2T). View Comments Source link
Even with a seven-horse field for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), trainer Chad Summers has no regrets about his unbeaten, grade 1-winning 2-year-old Napoleon Solo being in Kentucky instead of Del Mar at the moment. Normally a 6 1/2-length winner of the Champagne Stakes (G1) would be bound for the World Championships and…
It’s unlikely that anyone outside of a handful of people remember Rare Rock. Yet he played an important part in as great a success story as Thoroughbred racing has ever seen. For it was on April 12, 1996, when a young former D. Wayne Lukas assistant named Todd Pletcher was just starting out as a…
It’s that time of year again! The 2025 Breeders’ Cup is just around the corner, taking place on Oct. 31-Nov 1 at Del Mar | BloodHorse.com Track Profile”>Del Mar. Last year on Unlocking Winners, I selected seven of the 14 Breeders’ Cup winners, my best-ever hit rate for the two-day championship. Equaling that 50% strike…
Since its beginning in 1984, the Breeders’ Cup has provided 20 Kentucky Derby (G1) winners with an opportunity to reaffirm their excellence in a prestigious fall race, either during their 3-year-old season or later as older horses. For half a dozen of these runners, it has been the stage for championship-defining victories—for others, a reminder that…
The owner of the Bottle of Rouge, a bona fide contender for the NetJets Juvenile Fillies (G1), never has a beef with the trainer. The owner never questions the training regimen of the daughter of Vino Rosso. Nope, everything trainer Bob Baffert does with Bottle of Rouge is a-ok with the owner. That’s because…
Today the Indiana Horsemen, representing the state’s Thoroughbred, Standardbred, and Quarter Horse associations, released their position following the publication of the statewide gaming study required under Senate Enrolled Act 43 (2025). While the Horsemen appreciate the study’s acknowledgment of the significance of the horse racing industry’s $2 billion annual economic and agricultural impact, they are…
The Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup card features nine grade 1 races showcasing some the best horses in the world over their respective distance and surfaces. Yet, despite all of the incredible talent, only one entrant has never tasted defeat: Touch of Destiny . That perfect 6-for-6 record will be put to the fullest test Saturday in the…
