As the picture for the Breeders’ Cup began to come into focus with Wednesday’s release of pre-entries, the stallion rosters for 2026 are also becoming clearer.

Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky released its roster of stallions and stud fees for 2026 on Wednesday, and it has an argument for the strongest list of newcomers in the country. Taking up residence in the stud barn following their respective Breeders’ Cup races will be Sierra Leone, Fierceness, and Citizen Bull – all already Breeders’ Cup winners and Eclipse Award champions.

In a bid to win the race for a second consecutive year, trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. considered a trio of 4-year-old fillies for this year’s Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint before landing on a single runner. Getting the Florida-based filly Haulin Ice into the race should have been straightforward for the trainer, but he and the owners only decided to take the trip after a month of intense organizing.

White Abarrio will be moving to a new distance when he seeks to win a second career Breeders’ Cup race in the Grade 1, $1 million Dirt Mile on Nov. 1 at Del Mar.

“He’s already won the Classic,” said trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. “If he could add the Dirt Mile to his résumé, it would be a pretty impressive résumé that puts him in elite company.”

A year ago, for the first time since 2019, an American horse won the Breeders’ Cup Mile, and while More Than Looks was retired without racing again, the two behind him last November, Johannes and Notable Speech, are among 15 horses pre-entered in this year’s Breeders’ Cup Mile.

Seven of the last 14 years, Aidan O’Brien has trained the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner. He has won the race’s last three editions, and Puerto Rico was thought to be the O’Brien-trained favorite for this year’s Juvenile Turf. Puerto Rico wasn’t pre-entered. O’Brien still has the favorite.

She was out of contention, and now she’s back in.

The appearance of Precise in the pre-entries for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar on Oct. 31 gives the one-mile race a clear favorite.

Precise won the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket Racecourse in Britain on Oct. 10 for her second consecutive win in a Group 1 and fourth straight win overall. In the immediate aftermath of the race, trainer Aidan O’Brien said Precise would be rested for a spring campaign.

O’Brien has changed his mind.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The last time a full field of 14 horses went postward in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint was in 2020, when the ageless Whitmore rallied from near the rear of the field to spring an 18-1 upset at Keeneland. From all indications, the starting gate could be at capacity once again for the 2025 edition of the six-furlong Sprint.

Seventeen horses were pre-entered this week. Fourteen have given the race first preference, including Straight No Chaser and Bentornato, the one-two finishers in last year’s renewal of the event.

The 18 pre-entrants for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint have made their most recent starts at 10 different tracks in five different countries – the United States, Canada, France, Ireland, and Japan. But there’s a strong hometown trio of California-based Motorious and Ag Bullet, and Reef Runner, who has been based locally since August. All are assured spots in the main body of the Turf Sprint field, which is limited to 12 starters.