LEXINGTON, Ky. – He didn’t win – this one – but Bill Mott still was beaming after the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland. As the trainer of Olympiad, a distant runner-up to Flightline, Mott was more than happy with how the Classic concluded another sensational day at the office.

“If you could come to the Breeders’ Cup and have a day like that every time, it’d be good,” said Mott. “Yeah, pretty good.”

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Trainer John Sadler had held his emotions in check all week. He never outwardly displayed the confidence that was bursting inside of him leading up to Saturday’s $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic.

But when it was over, after Flightline lived up to all the hype - and his 2-5 favoritism - with a devastating 8 1/4-length victory in the Classic before a crowd of 45,973 at breezy Keeneland, the emotions finally spilled out of Sadler.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Winning the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile and the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf a year ago at Del Mar must have felt pretty good, because the same folks decided to do it again.  

Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby pulled the Mile/Turf double in 2021 and did it again on Saturday at Keeneland when Rebel’s Romance rumbled home and won the Turf by 2 1/4 lengths.  

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Throughout her brilliant career, Malathaat has been involved in a lot of close finishes, winning most, losing some.

In what was the closest finish of any of her 14 races, Malathaat, under John Velazquez, lumbered down the center of the Keeneland surface to just get her nose on the wire first over upset-minded Blue Stripe, who nosed out a rail-rallying Clairiere for second in a stirring renewal of the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Keeneland.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Godolphin, trainer Charlie Appleby, and William Buick broke a shocking two-race Breeders’ Cup losing streak when Modern Games roared home to win the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile by three-quarters of a length.

The strong favorite, Modern Games helped his connections shake off the deep disappointment of actually losing a couple Breeders’ Cup races, Silver Knott having finished second in the last race Friday, the Juvenile Turf, before Creative Force finished third and Naval Crown 14th on Saturday in the Turf Sprint.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Trainer Bill Mott won his second Breeders’ Cup race within an hour’s time with another late-developing and versatile 4-year-old as Elite Power rallied to a 1 1/4-length decision over the elder statesman, C Z Rocket, in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint.

Earlier, Mott sent out Cody’s Wish to a popular victory in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Tuesday was out for a lovely Sunday drive Saturday in winning the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, continuing the dominance by European runners that began Friday at Keeneland.

Getting a perfect trip from Ryan Moore throughout the 1 3/16-mile race, Tuesday looped the front pack leaving the quarter pole before taking dead aim on In Italian, surging past her with maybe 70 yards remaining to prevail by a length.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Cody’s Wish sustained a strong half-mile run to come from last and dispatch Cyberknife at the wire to win the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Keeneland on Saturday after a thrilling stretch battle.

Cody’s Wish, a 4-year-old trained by Bill Mott who beat Jackie’s Warrior, one of the top sprinters in the country, in his prep race for the Breeders’ Cup, loitered in last for the first half-mile of the race but resolutely made up ground and drove up to Cyberknife in the stretch. The two latched throats at the eighth pole and drove to the wire.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Yesterday, things didn't go as planned with Wonder Wheel, as the free-wheeling filly found herself back in the pack at the start of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. Rather than rushing her, jockey Tyler Gaffalione calmly worked out a trip, and the result was a scintillating victory, Gaffalione's first Breeders' Cup score.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Patience has always been a virtue for trainer Chad Brown and the connections of Goodnight Olive, who overcame plenty of adversity along the way before winding up in the winner’s circle after registering a popular and decisive 2 1/2-length victory over Echo Zulu in the $1 million Filly and Mare Sprint, the first of nine Breeders’ Cup races Saturday at Keeneland.