LEXINGTON, Ky. - A day after his Cave Rock got beat in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, trainer Bob Baffert unleashed a potential future star in Arabian Knight, who lived up to his $2.3 million price tag Saturday by winning his debut by 7 1/4 lengths at Keeneland.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – To become the horse that he is today, Kinross had to cease being a horse.  

In England, horses and colts, called “entires” there, are distinguished from geldings. And gelding Kinross late in the winter of 2021 put him on a path back to distinguished performance.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Jason Hart, who rides Thoroughbreds mainly in England and Ireland, matches nicely with his mount Saturday in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint.  

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Trainer Mark Casse said all was well early Saturday with Wonder Wheel, whose three-length triumph the previous afternoon in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies surely clinched a divisional Eclipse Award for the Into Mischief filly.

Casse said Wonder Wheel will leave Keeneland on Sunday for a brief rest at his training center in Ocala, Fla., where she will eventually ease back into training to prepare for the May 5 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Forte, the 1 1/2-length winner of Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Keeneland, will get about a 30-day break before beginning preparations for a 3-year-old campaign that will likely include two races before a planned start in the May 6 Kentucky Derby.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at the Royal Ascot meeting next June will be the long-range goal for Mischief Magic, winner of Friday’s Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint at Keeneland.

"He's got the scope to develop from 2 to 3 well," trainer Charlie Appleby said. "And, therefore, he's put himself probably in the picture as a Commonwealth horse, and we'll work backward from that."

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Total handle for the five Breeders’ Cup races held on Friday at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington set a record, according to charts of the races, surpassing the record total for last year despite the races being held nearly three hours earlier than last year.

Total handle for the five BC races was $49.27 million, up 16.4 percent over the record $42.31 bet on the five Friday races last year. All five Friday races are restricted to juveniles.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The road to Breeders’ Cup 2-year-old turf success began overseas and ended at Keeneland, where Victoria Road capped a Friday of Irish and English grass domination, narrowly winning the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf over the strong favorite, Silver Knott.   

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The first unbeatable horse in this year’s Breeders’ Cup was beaten.

Cave Rock, a 2-5 favorite in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile off dynamic wins in his first three starts, was pressed early on by longshot Hurricane J and though Cave Rock took the field into deep stretch, he couldn’t hold off the late run of Forte, who tackled Cave Rock at the sixteenth pole and went on to win by 1 1/2 lengths at Keeneland.

Cave Rock finished second by 2 1/4 lengths over National Treasure, as Bob Baffert-trained runners finished second and third.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Meditate, the Irish-bred 2-year-old filly who went off favored in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf despite two recent losses, redeemed herself with a powerful run in the stretch that left no doubt as to her class and shattered any perceptions of her distance limitations.