After losing the Kentucky Derby (G1) by a nose, it figured that Sierra Leone's drive for the 3-year-old male championship would come down to the final furlong of America's richest dirt race.
fifth in the Grade 1 California Crown in September at Santa Anita Park and fifth last out under returning Hall of Fame rider Joel Rosario in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) when 6 1/2 ...
The Japanese success of 2021 at Del Mar was a clear indicator ... He also finished fifth in the 2023 Breeders’ Cup Classic. The third entrant is Derma Sotogake, who was second in the Classic ...
The big race is the Classic, which is now worth US$7 million. All of Friday’s five Breeders’ Cup races are for two ... of Medina Spirit in the 2021 Kentucky Derby. “If I had kept him ...
Sierra Leone came from behind to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar Racetrack on Saturday, battling from near the back of the pack to overtake favourite Fierceness and avenge a series of ...
Last year's GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner and 'TDN Rising Star' Sierra Leone (Gun Runner) worked four furlongs in :50.60 (40/53) for trainer Chad Brown at Payson Park Jan. 12, his second workout of ...
a crowd of 30,982 watched the first five of 14 this year’s Breeders’ Cup races. The remaining nine, including the $7 million Classic, will be contested Saturday. The racing was mostly formful ...
Kentucky Derby third-place finisher Forever Young became Japan’s most successful contender in the country’s twenty-year ...
The Breeders' Cup Classic winner had a brief freshening at Ashford Stud, but trainer Chad Brown was "pleasantly surprised" by Sierra's Leone's first work back ...
(AP) — Citizen Bull won the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile ... Racing resumes Saturday with nine Cup races, highlighted by the $7 million Classic. In other races: ...