By Anthony Stabile

JUVENILE

$2 million; 1 1/16 miles; 2YO

In my opinion, some of the biggest surprises and upsets have come in this race, starting in 1988 when Is It True upset the great Easy Goer. Who can forget Arazi’s amazing performance in the 1991 renewal at Churchill? One of the more underrated horses of our time, Unbridled’s Song, out-dueled Hennessy to win the 1995 running in just his third start at Belmont where six years later Johannesburg shipped in from across the pond and halted Officer’s winning streak. Street Sense took the first step in breaking the Juvenile/Kentucky Derby jinx by winning it in 2006.

By Anthony Stabile   JUVENILE FILLIES $2 million; 1 1/16 miles; 2YO fillies   Open Mind, Go For Wand and Silverbulletday are some of the fantastic young ladies to have captured this event. My Flag splashed home in the mud to win in 1995 before her daughter Storm Flag Flying took the 2002 renewal at […]

17 HOURS OF LIVE BREEDERS’ CUP COVERAGE BEGINS WEDNESDAY ON HRRN   Horse Racing Radio Network (HRRN), the Eclipse Award-winning broadcast organization based in Lexington, KY, announced Friday they will return to Santa Anita Park in Arcadia California to provide 17 hours of live Breeders’ Cup coverage beginning Wednesday, October 29.    HRRN, the exclusive radio […]

By Anthony Stabile FILLY & MARE SPRINT $1 million; 7 furlongs; 3up(f&m)   This race has become famous quite simply because Groupie Doll, the winner of the last pair of runnings and easily one of the more popular horses of this generation. When first contested in 2007 it was run at six furlongs because host […]

By Anthny Stabile TURF SPRINT $1 million; 6 ½ furlongs (T); 3up   While most had been crying out for the Breeders’ Cup to add this event for years, it didn’t happen until 2008, when Desert Code stormed down the hill to pay $75 in a shocker. Since that event, three of five favorites have […]

By Anthony Stabile DIRT MILE $1 million; 1 mile; 3up   Another race launched in 2007, the thinking was that it was finally time for a Breeders’ Cup event that focuses on one of the more interesting equine athletes – the miler. Sprints are too short for them, routes too long for them but the […]

By Anthony Stabile   JUVENILE TURF $1 million; 1 mile (T); 2YO   Contested for the first time back in 2007 when the Breeders’ Cup expanded to the current two day format, the Juvenile Turf finally offered U.S. runners with an affinity for the lawn a chance to notch a Cup score and gave the […]

By Anthony Stabile    JUVENILE FILLIES TURF   $1 million; 1 mile (T); 2YO fillies   In 2007, the Juvenile Turf was run for the first time over a boggy Monmouth Park turf course.    It pitted the colts and geldings against fillies. A year later, the Juvenile Fillies Turf came into    existence and […]

HRRN’s ROAD TO THE BREEDERS’ CUP STOPS AT KEENELAND FOR LIVE COVERAGE OF FALL STARS WEEKEND Horse Racing Radio Network (HRRN), the exclusive radio network of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, continues their Road to the Breeders’ Cup series this Friday with live coverage of Keeneland’s Fall Stars Weekend.    HRRN will be on-site at […]

By ANTHONY STABILE “Anthony Cantore, call your office.” If you’ve frequented a NYRA racetrack in the past couple of decades you’ve likely heard track announcer Tom Durkin, who will retire after the last race of the day at Saratoga on Sunday, Aug. 31, say these words at some point during your visit. Anthony Cantore never […]