Tag Archives: Breeders Cup

Beholder’s Last Stand

Gary Stevens has seen some things. The kinds of things only visible from the saddle in a career spanning nearly four decades and 28,700 races. But in Friday's Breeders' Cup...

10 LongshBreeders’ Cup Horses

The Breeders’ Cup is the equivalent of the Super Bowl and Christmas combined for horse racing fans. The motto of the Breeders’ Cup is “the best is yet to come”, and...

Farewell to the Pharoah

Of American Pharoah’s Travers Stakes loss in late August, turf writer Steve Haskin wrote, “He and Frosted gutted each other and crawled home.” NBC’s Jerry Bailey, himself a Hall of...

Team of Longshots

It’s 25 minutes until post time on a picturesque October afternoon at Keeneland Racecourse. Out of the jockey’s room steps a young woman dressed for work: tall black riding boots,...