Wed, 11/05/2025 - 11:28

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Tue, 11/04/2025 - 18:54

BC Dirt Mile: White Abarrio co-owners retain counsel, want investigation into why he was scratched

White Abarrio led off track after being scratched from BC Dirt Mile Nov 1 2025
Barbara D. Livingston
White Abarrio is led from the track after being scratched during the warmup for the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. Owners C2 Racing and Gary Barber want a full explanation for the scratch.

The owners of White Abarrio have retained counsel and are requesting a “full and transparent investigation” be conducted into the scratch of White Abarrio from last Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar, according to an e-mail from part owners C2 Racing and Gary Barber. 

Mon, 11/03/2025 - 14:30

Breeders' Cup total handle down, Saturday betting up compared to 2024

Justin N. Lane
Handle for Saturday's Breeders' Cup card was $107.96 million, up 1.1 percent from last year.

Total commingled betting on the 14 Breeders’ Cup races held on Friday and Saturday at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Southern California declined 2.4 percent compared to total handle on the same races last year, according to charts of the races.

The slight decline was the second time in the past three years in which year-over-year handle declined on the 14 races that form the brunt of two consecutive cards. In 2023, handle on the 14 Breeders’ Cup races held at Sanita Anita declined 8.9 percent compared to record figures at the 2022 event, which was held at Keeneland.

Mon, 11/03/2025 - 13:22

Eclipse Awards: Breeders' Cup results complicate several divisions

Sovereignty.Bill Mott Oct 12 2025
Barbara D. Livingston
Despite missing the Breeders' Cup Classic, Sovereignty could win Eclipse Awards for himself and trainer Bill Mott.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The results of the Breeders’ Cup may have done more to cloud than clear up the picture as far as Eclipse Awards for 2025 are concerned, and some of the stronger candidates in certain divisions may be those who didn’t participate in the two-day event.

Sun, 11/02/2025 - 18:50

Ethical Diamond, winner of BC Turf, may be destined for Sheema Classic

Barbara D. Livingston
Ethical Diamond, winner of Saturday's Breeders' Cup Turf, was the first BC runner for trainer Willie Mullins.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Ethical Diamond put the famous Irish jumps trainer Willie Mullins in the winner’s circle of an American flat race for the first time with a surprise win in Saturday’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Turf at Del Mar.

The 27-1 victory has given Mullins the needed excuse to target other seven-figure races in the Middle East in coming months with Ethical Diamond, specifically the Group 1, $6 million Sheema Classic at 1 1/2 miles on turf in Dubai on March 28.

Sun, 11/02/2025 - 18:28

Balantina, after BC Juvenile Fillies Turf win, may race on two continents in 2026

Debra A. Roma
Balantina was given an 86 Beyer Speed Figure for Friday's victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Balantina may have a two-continent campaign in 2026.

The winner of Friday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, Balantina is set to return to trainer Donnacha O’Brien’s stable in Ireland this week. O’Brien said on Saturday that Balantina will run in a Group 1 1000 Guineas race in May, followed by the Group 1 Coronation Stakes at a mile at Royal Ascot in June.

Balantina, owned by Medallion Racing, Parkland Thoroughbreds, Reeves Thoroughbreds and Lissa Ann McNulty, has won 2 of 6 starts and earned $574,440.

Sun, 11/02/2025 - 18:03

Prat's seven wins (six consecutive) on single Belmont at Big A card sets NYRA record

Adam Coglianese
Jockey Flavien Prat had 10 mounts on the 11-race card at Aqueduct, finishing with seven wins, three seconds.

Flavien Prat won seven races on Sunday’s card on the final day of the Belmont at the Big A meet, establishing a New York Racing Association record for wins by a jockey on a single card. 

Nineteen jockeys had won six races on a card - Ramon Dominguez did it three times - and there had been 25 occasions on which that happened. Prat won six consecutive races on the card, making him the seventh rider to do that. 

Sun, 11/02/2025 - 17:53

White Abarrio, vet-scratched from BC Dirt Mile, will race again, connections say

Barbara D. Livingston
Part owner Mark Cornett said White Abarrio will ship to Gulfstream in the coming days after Saturday's on-track scratch.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The connections of White Abarrio, upset about the circumstances surrounding the on-track scratch of their horse just minutes before the start of Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar, said they do plan on racing the horse again. 

“He’s definitely going to race again,” Mark Cornett, part owner of White Abarrio, said Sunday morning at Del Mar. “There’s no reason not to race the horse again.” 

Sun, 11/02/2025 - 17:05

She's Quality, pulled up in Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint with pelvic injury, euthanized

Barbara D. Livingston
She’s Quality had won 4 of 24 starts in a career that began in June 2023.

DEL MAR, Calif. - She’s Quality, who was pulled up in the opening furlong of Saturday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar, was euthanized on Sunday morning at a Southern California veterinary clinic because of complications from a pelvis injury.

She’s Quality’s death was reported on social media by trainer Jack Davison.

The message, in part, said, “I am devastated to report that our stable star She’s Quality has passed away, having suffered a pelvic fracture during the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint.”

Sun, 11/02/2025 - 15:14

Breeders' Cup: Forever Young's Classic victory was year in making

Barbara D. Livingston
Forever Young, shown Sunday morning with Yoshito Yahagi, earned a 111 Beyer Speed Figure for Saturday's win in the Breeders' Cup Classic.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Admittedly hung over, behind dark sunglasses, wearing a wide-brim hat with Torrey Pines emblazoned on it and a Shohei Ohtani T-shirt, Yoshito Yahagi could have been mistaken for any jubilant Los Angeles Dodgers fan early Sunday morning. 

Except the Ohtani shirt was underneath a red jacket with “Forever Young” stitched on it and Yahagi was addressing a gaggle of media the morning after the Japan-based and -bred Forever Young won the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar.