There will be something for everyone at the various attractions of the Global Symposium on Gaming & Racing early next week in Tucson, Ariz., where industry leaders are gathering to gnaw on the thorny issues of the sport and run up a tab.

It is fitting that Sunday’s $100,000 Native Diver at Del Mar has intergenerational appeal since Native Diver himself spanned an entire era. He raced 81 times over seven seasons, won 34 stakes, and in 1967 became only the seventh Thoroughbred to earn more than a million dollars. He is also buried at Del Mar.

It has been 20 years since Cigar ran his last race, in the 1996 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Woodbine, while more than 76 years have passed since Seabiscuit took his final bow with a victory in the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap. Yet their names live on, in more ways than one, and on Saturday their memories will be summoned once again in significant bicoastal races at Del Mar and Aqueduct.

It seems like a dream, but it wasn’t. Three Saturdays ago, at a time of day when a trainer might be hustling to make the first race for a $10,000 claimer or bottom-level maiden, Peter Eurton and his crew led Champagne Room into the dazzling sunlight of the Santa Anita Park walking ring for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.

As noted in this space last week about the strongly run Breeders’ Cup Juvenile by Classic Empire and Not This Time, there is much optimism for this year’s class of 2-year-old males. More encouraging signs came Saturday in stakes victories from Mastery and Gunnevera.

Mastery, a most eye-catching debut winner at Santa Anita just two weeks before the Breeders’ Cup, won the Bob Hope Stakes at Del Mar, a springboard to the Los Alamitos CashCall Futurity on Dec. 10. Mastery was supposed to win the Bob Hope. He was 1-5. So it says something about Mastery that he also managed to impress.

Do not be impressed with the reputation of any modern racehorse until time is spent with the record and the reality of Buckpasser, the Horse of the Year of 1966.

It has not taken 50 years to appreciate this monster. On the contrary, he was feared in the flesh, a relentless 3-year-old machine who blew off the Triple Crown races and won everything else worth winning. Picture Arrogate, plus eight more starts and nine more stakes victories.

Due to the popularity of Beyer Speed Figures, one is usually betting with the crowd when backing a high-figure horse. But some exceptions can arise, creating value on a fast horse when the public views a big figure as a fluke or as a result of favorable circumstances.

I’m hopeful such an occasion presents itself Saturday when Our Stormin Norman races in the Delta Jackpot with by far the top last-race Beyer Speed Figure, an 88; he earned the figure winning a maiden race on the lead at Keeneland on Oct. 23.

There is no indication that reverse psychology works on a racehorse, at least not like the way it does on, say, a 5-year-old, or a recalcitrant boyfriend.

You can stroll past the stall of an unruly colt waving the surgical implements of castration, and he won’t bat an eye. “Don’t eat … see if I care” is rarely deployed as a training tool.

Every Breeders’ Cup is special, but last weekend’s was, I believe, extra special.

Arrogate and California Chrome made this year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic one of the best ever. Not only was this Classic incredibly appealing from a visual standpoint, its winning 120 Beyer Figure tied for second in Classic history with Black Tie Affair (1991), Skip Away (1997), and American Pharoah (2015), behind only the 124 assigned to Ghostzapper in 2004.

In show business, it’s how you leave ’em that counts – laughing, crying, wanting even more. Last Saturday’s Day 2 of the Breeders’ Cup provided all that and then some.

Brilliant races from Arrogate, California Chrome, Highland Reel, and Tourist marked the day, while Peter Eurton, Phil D’Amato, Seamus Heffernan, and Flavien Prat joined the company of Breeders’ Cup winners.