Last Sunday's Woodbine Mile might have revealed the best North American miler pointing for the Breeders' Cup Mile, but after seeing last year's Mile, one wonders how much that matters.
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To run, or not to run? That is the question trainers and owners of many of the nation's best 2-year-olds are pondering as they consider whether it is prudent to have another prep race before the Grade 1, $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Monmouth Park on Oct. 27.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - A walk through Monmouth Park on a recent afternoon was a jarring experience. Fences were knocked down, benches scattered about, hedges uprooted, barn doors ripped away.
The scene would qualify for a "Nature's Fury" segment on the Weather Channel - except the chaos was man-made, wholly by design.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Outspoken owner Frank Calabrese is rarely at a loss for words. But immediately after winning the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies with Dreaming of Anna, a filly he named after his late sister, Anna Andersen, he was left speechless.
So were many observers, who witnessed Dreaming of Anna cap a 4 for 4 season with an emphatic 1 1/2-length victory over Octave in the Juvenile Fillies. Her victory virtually assures she will be voted North America's champion 2-year-old filly.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Marty Wolfson had watched Miesque's Approval beat his horses enough times that the opportunity to train the horse intrigued him. So even though Miesque's Approval had been beaten twice in claiming races near the end of his 6-year-old season, Wolfson asked owner Charlotte Weber for a chance to train the horse.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Michael Matz's world came full circle Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs.
Five months ago, in the Preakness, Matz watched his Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro pull up with a life-threatening injury as the favorite in the Preakness while Bernardini galloped to a rousing 5 1/4-length victory. Saturday, in the $2.26 million Breeders' Cup Distaff, the Matz-trained Round Pond galloped to a 4 1/4-length victory while the two favorites in the race suffered injuries.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It took Street Sense only 1:42.59 to win the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Saturday at Churchill Downs, but it took less time than that for his trainer, Carl Nafzger, to put the first Saturday in November behind him and start looking toward the first Saturday in May.
"We want to come back the first Saturday in May," Nafzger said, referring to the Kentucky Derby, run at the same track six months from now. "That's when we want to be here."
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Ouija Board staked her claim as one of the great racehorses in the 23-year history of the Breeders' Cup, winning the Filly and Mare Turf for the second time in three years, with a second-place finish last season sandwiched between triumphs in 2004 and this year.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The three leading candidates for Horse of the Year gathered at Churchill Downs on Saturday for the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic, and at the end of an emotionally draining day that captured the extreme highs and the lows of the sport, Invasor proved that he is the best.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Red Rocks gave jockey Frankie Dettori his second Breeders' Cup win of the day and his third career victory in the Turf by gamely holding off Better Talk Now in the final furlong to post yet another win for European connections in the $3 million Turf at Churchill Downs on Saturday.