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While all eyes are on Woodbine Mohawk Park for this year’s Breeders Crown finals, preparations are already underway for the 2026 event, to be held at Scioto Downs. The eliminations are set for Friday and Saturday October 16 & 17, with the finals scheduled for the following weekend.
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A filly who surprised almost everyone and a colt who surprised no one are key entrants in a pair of $175,000 stakes for California-bred 2-year-olds on the Breeders' Cup undercard Friday at Del Mar.
The 2025 Breeders Crown Charity Challenge concluded this past weekend with $450,000 donated to charities local to Woodbine Mohawk Park, bringing the total dollars raised through the initiative to over $2.4 million since 2019.
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There is racing elsewhere on Breeders' Cup weekend – including Friday at Churchill Downs, which has played host to the big weekend nine times and which provides some hints to this year's “Future Stars Friday” card at Del Mar.
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Precise holds the distinction as the future-book favorite for the Group 1 English 1000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse next May. Precise may end her 2025 season with a piece of American racing history if she runs to expectation in Friday's $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar.
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The Aidan O’Brien show, always a highlight when the potent stable takes to the track for the first time at the Breeders’ Cup no matter the venue, became Aidan and Sons this year at Del Mar. The group consisted of 13 O’Brien horses led by Aidan’s army of eight Breeders’ Cup contenders along with five others trained by his sons Joseph and Donnacha.
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Mike Smith has the opportunity to become the oldest jockey ever to win a Breeders' Cup race this weekend.
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A winner of his first three starts, all when starting from outside post positions, Ted Noffey will go off as a heavy favorite to win Friday's $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Del Mar from the outside again in an eight-horse field.
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Sovereignty, the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner, spiked a fever overnight and his status for Saturday’s $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar is very much in doubt, trainer Bill Mott said Tuesday.
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From Friday afternoon through lunchtime on Saturday, the familiar orange and purple-quartered colors of Spendthrift Farm will be easy to spot on jockeys in five Breeders' Cup races at Del Mar. It would be no surprise if a few of those runners reach the winner's circle.
