LEXINGTON, Ky. – Drew Fleming, the chief operating officer at Breeders’ Cup Ltd., will replace the departing Craig Fravel as the organization’s chief executive officer, Breeders’ Cup announced on Tuesday.

Grade 1, $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile; 1 1/16 miles; Santa Anita; Nov. 1, 2019

(20 Derby qualifying points for a win, 8 for second, 4 for third, 2 for fourth)

Winner: Storm the Court, by Court Vision

Trainer: Peter Eurton

Jockey: Flavien Prat

Owner: Exline-Border Racing LLC, David Bernsen LLC, Susanna Wilson, and Dan Hudock

Beyer Speed Figure: 87

ARCADIA, Calif. – For the last five years, and for most of the nearly 50 years that the Eclipse Awards have existed, the Horse of the Year has been either the outstanding 3-year-old from the Triple Crown races, or the best older distance horse on dirt.

The major Kentucky mixed sales in early November annually ride the wave of the Breeders’ Cup, with fillies and mares coming directly from the races to the sales, perhaps with major catalog updates, to be sold as racing or broodmare prospects. This year’s contingent making the trip from Santa Anita to Lexington, Ky., certainly falls in that category, as Blue Prize and Belvoir Bay stepped onto the Fasig-Tipton sale grounds as newly-minted Breeders' Cup heroines.

Total wagering on the 14 Breeders’ Cup races held on Friday and Saturday at Santa Anita Park in Southern California set a record, increasing nearly 12 percent over the total amount bet for a 14-race card at Churchill Downs in 2018, according to charts of the races.

Shared Account joined an elite club as the fourth Breeders’ Cup winner to be the dam of a Breeders’ Cup winner when her daughter Sharing won the Juvenile Fillies Turf.

A Breeders’ Cup victory that puts a young horse on the path toward the Kentucky Derby or Kentucky Oaks is virtually priceless. But Storm the Court and British Idiom, who each earned 20 points toward the spring classics with their victories in the Juvenile and Juvenile Fillies, respectively, both were bargain buys, costing just $100,000 combined.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bob Baffert watched his horses train a little after 7:00 Sunday morning at Santa Anita and like many of the rest of us expressed appreciation for an extra hour’s sleep thanks to the time change Saturday night. Baffert had some other thoughts about time, specifically referencing Mitole’s 1:09.00 clocking for six furlongs in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.

“That horse, he’s just so fast. That’s a 1:07 and change kind of horse, not 1:09,” Baffert said. 

ARCADIA, Calif. – Just about every human emotion was being felt by trainers on Sunday morning in the aftermath of participating in the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday at Santa Anita, ranging from the pride and satisfaction felt by Todd Pletcher for Vino Rosso’s victory to the profound sadness of Enebish Ganbat, whose Mongolian Groom suffered an injury that proved fatal.

Bob Baffert was thrilled with the runner-up performance by McKinzie, and Shug McGaughey, whose Code of Honor was seventh, was infuriated over what he thought was a difficult racing surface.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Paradise Woods, the winner of four graded stakes, has run her last race.

After finishing last of 11 in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Santa Anita, Paradise Woods will be sent to Kentucky on Wednesday and will be bred in 2020, trainer John Shirreffs said on Sunday.

Shirreffs said stallion plans have not been determined and that the 5-year-old mare will be sent to Lane’s End Farm.

Owned by Marty and Pam Wygod and Steve Sarkowsky, Paradise Woods won five of 18 starts and earned $1,123,890 in a three-year career.