LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Enable courageously ran her way into the record books Saturday at Churchill Downs, becoming the first horse to win both the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and the Breeders’ Cup Turf in the same year. Now, the question is whether Enable will be given the opportunity to make more history in 2019.

A decision on that will not be made in the short term, according to Teddy Grimthorpe, the racing manager for Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, which bred and owns the superstar 4-year-old filly. Grimthorpe did say that Enable would certainly not run again in 2018.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Irad Ortiz Jr. was the top points-earner as the recipient of the 16th Bill Shoemaker Award, given annually to the most outstanding jockey at the Breeders’ Cup.

Ortiz won two BC events, the Juvenile Fillies Turf on Newspaperofrecord and the Filly and Mare Sprint on Shamrock Rose, and finished in the top four in five other races from 13 mounts. Based on a 10-4-2-1 scoring system on first- through fourth-place finishes, he earned 35 points to narrowly edge Joel Rosario (32) and Javier Castellano (30).

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Shamrock Rose, the 25-1 winner of the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Saturday at Churchill Downs, was scheduled to ship Sunday to Mark Casse’s training facility in Ocala, Fla., where she will stay active for the time being.

Casse said he believes Shamrock Rose is deserving of the divisional Eclipse Award for filly-mare sprinter, but he will “keep an eye on” the Grade 1 La Brea on Dec. 26 at Santa Anita “in case we need” a victory in that seven-furlong race to further bolster the filly’s candidacy.

Total betting on the 14 Breeders’ Cup races held Friday and Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., was up 0.6 percent compared to last year, when there were 13 official Breeders’ Cup races held at Del Mar in Southern California, according to charts of the races.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -  Shortly after Gunnevera finished fifth behind the champion Gun Runner in the 2017 Breeders’ Cup Classic his trainer, Antonio Sano, made a bold prediction.

“I told my owner and my family, next year we’re going to win the Classic,” Sano recalled.

He was nearly right.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For my money, this Breeders’ Cup was an artistic success.

First, the decision to move all the 2-year-old races to Friday made for what I thought was by far the best format since the Breeders’ Cup went to a two-day event in 2007. Friday’s events made sense as a group way more than a random collection of races and was far more palatable than the patronizing “Ladies Day” concept. Moreover, this afforded the opportunity for the Distaff, a legacy event, to enjoy its rightful prime-time spot on Saturday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - This time, she held her course straight and true - as true as the golden heart that beats beneath her chestnut coat.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The shadows of the late afternoon were quickly enveloping Churchill Downs on Saturday, and right amid the ones cast in the paddock by the saddling stalls was trainer John Sadler, and the scene could not have been more appropriate.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In many ways, Enable came here as the star of the 35^th Breeders’ Cup, a filly with a near flawless-record who had overcome injury and a brief illness to become a two-time winner of France’s biggest race, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

With a furlong to go in the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf, Enable had one last hurdle to overcome, a stern challenge from the 3-year-old filly Magical, the Aidan O’Brien-trainee who was coming off a Group 1 victory just two weeks ago at Ascot.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The trainer is a sir, the racing manager a lord, the owner a prince, and on Saturday at Churchill Downs, their horse was king as Expert Eye won the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile.

The jockey? He’s just Frankie. And Frankie Dettori’s late-career brilliance helped Expert Eye finally live up to his hype.