The running of the 32nd Breeders’ Cup Classic culminates 8½ hours of Breeders’ Cup World Championships coverage this week on NBC and NBCSN from Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Ken. – the first time the race has ever been held at the storied track.
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“He went really well”. “He has the demeanor to handle things; a very kind horse….”
The Juvenile, to be run Saturday on the second of two days of racing during the 32st Breeders’ Cup, includes two entries each from O’Neill and Keith Desormeaux, who trains Exaggerator and Swipe. It will be Riker’s first race on dirt; he’s won all his races at Woodbine, which has a synthetic surface similar to the one Keeneland used to have. Just a reminder, it was the son of Pioneerof the Nile, American Pharoah. It will be exciting, but it’s more of an end-of-the-year, big payday with big purses, not like the Triple Crown races.
Now on to the Test of Champions, the Belmont Stakes, going a mile and half. In 2015 they waited once again, they were fresh and talented, but 90,000 people got to see history made on that first Saturday in June. Well, just in case, it was the Zayat Stables homebred, American Pharoah. Untapable is back to defend her title, although with a different jockey. The Haskell was the stage for another rousting victory. Yes, of course it was American Pharoah. American Pharoah will be one of the most sought-after stallions once he joins Coolmore America’s Ashford Stud Farm in Versailles, Kentucky after he runs the Breeders’ Cup Classic. American Pharoah has faced top competition on races tracks all over the country, winning all but one of those races.
A profile on the horse and jockey most likely to thwart American Pharoah’s “Grand Slam” – Beholder and her jockey Gary Stevens.
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GOLDEN HORN was set another draw challenge on Monday as the Derby and Arc victor was handed the inside stall in the $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf.
