DEL MAR, Calif. – There were two posts remaining – stalls 1 and 6 – and the names of Sovereignty and Fierceness had yet to be called as the post position draw for Saturdays $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic came to an end Monday in the Del Mar paddock.
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Sovereignty, winner of the Kentucky Derby and four other stakes this year, drew post 6 for Saturday’s $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar, his first start against older horses.
Sovereignty, trained by Bill Mott for Godolphin Racing, faces a tremendous field in the BC Classic at 1 1/4 miles, the richest race in North America. Linemaker David Aragona made Sovereignty a 6-5 favorite.
Sierra Leone, Fierceness, and Forever Young – the first three finishers in the 2024 BC Classic at Del Mar – drew posts 7, 1, and 5.
Del Mar
Monday, Oct. 27
Weather: Cloudy
Temp.: 60°
Track: Fast
Turf: Firm
DEL MAR, Calif. – Anyone who came out expecting to see Sovereignty lay down a bullet work in final preparation for the Classic may have been sorely disappointed, but his connections certainly were not after the number one attraction for this year’s Breeders’ Cup breezed an easy, maintenance-like half-mile shortly after dawn Monday at Del Mar.
Mon, 10/27/2025 - 13:26
DEL MAR, Calif. – Gimme a Nother, a six-time graded or group stakes winner in California and South Africa, and Way to Be Marie, a minor stakes winner at Fair Grounds in March, will miss Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar.
Gimme a Nother was not shipped from trainer Graham Motion’s base in Maryland because of a minor splint bone injury, Motion said Monday. Motion said the 5-year-old will remain in training in 2026. Her absence from the Breeders’ Cup was first reported by Paulick Report.
Mon, 10/27/2025 - 12:34
DEL MAR, Calif. – Having done all his serious preparation at home in Saratoga, Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Sovereignty on Monday at Del Mar put in his final work for Saturday’s $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, breezing a half-mile in 49.83 seconds by himself.
Under assistant trainer Neil Poznansky, who is Sovereignty’s work rider but not everyday exercise rider, Sovereignty went in splits of 12.95 and 25.06, getting his final quarter in 24.77, per Daily Racing Form clocker Mike Welsch. He galloped out five furlongs in 1:03.28.
Wimbledon Hawkeye gave British trainer James Owen his first Group 2 win in the 2024 Royal Lodge Stakes at Newmarket. The colt also gave Owen his first winner in the United States and in a seven-figure race in the Grade 3, $2.6 million Nashville Derby at Kentucky Downs on Aug. 30.
Owen has greater goals with Wimbledon Hawkeye, who landed at Del Mar over the weekend for this Saturday’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Turf at Del Mar, the nation’s richest grass race.
Santa Anita on Saturday has carded two handicaps based on a newly created rating system instead of more traditional methods such as allowance race conditions or claiming levels.
Santa Anita is the first track in the nation to offer such races.
The ratings-based handicaps are the sixth and seventh races.
The sixth race, which has seven entrants, is a six-furlong sprint with a purse of $35,000 for horses rated 70 to 79. The purse compares to a $25,000 claiming race.
Rose’s Desert, a multiple stakes winner who as a broodmare has produced five stakes winners led by $12 million earner Senor Buscador, had a debut winner last weekend at Remington Park.
The Hell We Did was a neck winner of a maiden special weight for 2-year-olds. He is a son of Authentic who races for the same connections as Senor Buscador, who also won his debut at 2 at Remington.
The Hell We Did won over six furlongs under David Cabrera.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Orlando Quinones, a member of the New York Racing Association gate crew, was suspended one year by the New York State Gaming Commission for abusing a horse while attempting to school him at the starting gate during the Saratoga summer meet.
According to a commission ruling, Quinones, while attempting to load the unraced 2-year-old, Mr. Miracle, into the starting gate, “became aggressive with the horse and caused multiple visible injuries to the muzzle and bridge of the nose area of the animal.”