Zenyatta's performance winning the Breeders' Cup Classic not only elicited wild reactions from her thousands of admirers on hand at Santa Anita on Saturday but also praise from the connections of several of the horses she beat.

Zenyatta's popular win in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita capped a $2 pick six that returned $1,838,305 to one ticketholder.

Conduit took down his second consecutive $3 million Breeders' Cup Turf title on Saturday, but not before Presious Passion nearly stole the race with an exceptional runaway, front-running effort. Conduit, the 4-5 favorite, took the lead just inside the sixteenth pole to earn a half-length victory,

An historic encore win by Goldikova in Saturday's $2 million Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita showed a new dimension from a filly who has dominated one-mile grass races on both sides of the Atlantic in the last two years.

Ken Kinakin said he's not a risk taker by nature. It's an assessment he might want to reconsider after putting up a $180,000 supplemental fee just to get his Dancing in Silks into the $2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint. That investment ultimately turned into a $1,080,000 payday.

European invader Vale of York tipped over the form of the North American 2-year-old division Saturday at Santa Anita, where the Godolphin-owned colt sprang a $63.20 upset in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Vale of York won by a head over 2-1 favorite Lookin at Lucky.

After striking out with all his Kitten-named horses for two days, owner Ken Ramsey's former claimer Furthest Land proved to be the big dog in the $1 million Dirt Mile on Saturday at Santa Anita.