The 2025 Breeders' Cup, the final major Grade 1 Thoroughbred horse racing event of the year in North America, didn't disappoint. Championship Saturday at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club featured nine races ...

DEL MAR, Calif. — The Breeders’ Cup culminates Saturday with nine horse races seemingly designed to confound even the best handicappers in the land, including the extremely competitive marquee race, ...

The Breeders' Cup World Championships take place this weekend from Del Mar Racetrack, with the 2025 Breeders' Cup Classic the highlight of the series. The latter is a Grade 1 race over 1/4 miles ...

The Breeders' Cup will be missing two of the biggest names in horse racing. Sovereignty and Mystik Dan, the last two Kentucky Derby winners, were scratched from running at Del Mar Fairgrounds in ...

Two trainers each won two Breeders’ Cup races Saturday at Del Mar, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end between them. The first to do it was Jose D’Angelo, a 34-year-old native of ...

It’s Sierra Leone’s very last, and very biggest race. Despite that, the defending Classic champion has just one huge job: In this field, he can’t leave himself too much to do down the stretch. ByGuy ...

Forever Young also won the Saudi Cup, horse racing's most valuable purse at $37.6 million, in February. Orlando Ramirez / Getty Images Japan’s Forever Young, a 4-year-old trained by Yoshito Yahagi, ...

The 42nd Annual Breeders' Cup World Championships, which is the celebration of the top thoroughbreds in the world, will take place Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. The Breeders’ Cup is the last major event of the ...

With the thinnest cloud cover in the sky and spectacular temperatures the morning of Oct. 31, Del Mar prepared to roll out the red carpet for the 42nd Breeders' Cup World Championships. Del Mar is ...

Fierceness, seen here warming up for last year's Breeders' Cup Classic, was runner-up in 2024 and, with Sovereignty out, is the favorite this year. Denis Poroy / Imagn Images *Editor’s Note: Some ...

DEL MAR, Calif. — Halloween is the ideal day to get the horse racing extravaganza known as the Breeders’ Cup World Championships underway, as agonizing defeats, shocking surprises and maybe some tasty ...

DEL MAR — The paddock at Del Mar was packed on Monday with owners, trainers and racing officials. The drinks were flowing and the hors d’oeuvres nearby. The reason? They were drawing post positions ...