{Friday, October 30, 2009} ZENYATTA AIMING AT CLASSIC WIN What next week's Breeders' Cup World Championships at Santa Anita needs to draw maximum interest from all quarters is for Zenyatta to run in the $5 million Classic. And that

{Tuesday, October 27, 2009} PREPPING FOR THE BREEDERS CUP.... Mine That Bird rips bullet five-eighths Kentucky Derby (G1) winner MINE THAT BIRD (Birdstone) blitzed five furlongs in a bullet :58 1/5 at Santa Anita

{Sunday, October 25, 2009} BREEDERS STILL UP IN THE AIR The deadline is fast approaching for the owners of Zenyatta to fish or cut bait on where they plan to run her in the Breeders’ Cup in two weeks. Zenyatta is the biggest star booked

{Thursday, October 22, 2009} Zenyatta: Savior of Synthetic Cup II Now is not the time for panic. Fifteen minutes from now, perhaps. Just not at this moment. But it hasn’t been a fun run-up to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships thus far.

{Tuesday, October 20, 2009} THE LAST BREEDERS CUP AS WE KNOW IT In my opinion, racing fans can expect two and maybe three changes to the current Breeders' Cup format after this year's 26th running on Nov. 6-7 during Santa Anita's Oak Tree meet.

{Sunday, October 18, 2009} BREEDERS CUP PREVIEW These tentatively scheduled first three races on the Saturday, Nov. 7, closing day of the event, are all new additions in the past two years. The Juvenile Turf and Dirt Mile were added when

{Friday, October 16, 2009} CALVARY THE ONE TO WATCH AT BC Frenchman Andre Fabre has a reputation as one of the top Thoroughbred horsemen in the world. Among the feats which have earned Fabre the accolade is having trained the winner of

{Thursday, October 15, 2009} SEA OF THE STARS JOURNEY TO GREATNESS SEA THE STARS conquered Europe's finest colts in his short racing career, which began with a fourth-place finish in a Curragh maiden and culminated in a sensational Qatar

{Tuesday, October 13, 2009} Weekend at Keeneland boosts a crowd to Cup The nine graded stakes run on FallStars Weekend at Keeneland appear to have produced at least 16 starters for the Breeders' Cup, with another handful possible to run

{Monday, October 12, 2009} MINE THAT BIRD NOT GOOD IN GOODWOOD If Mine That Bird is going to be a factor in the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 7, he has some work to do. The Kentucky Derby winner returned to the races for the first time

{Sunday, October 11, 2009} SHOCKER AT SANTA ANITA Team Valor International and Gary Barber's GITANO HERNANDO (GB) (Hernando [Fr]) was a relative unknown entering Saturday's $305,000 Goodwood S. (G1) at Oak Tree, winning a conditions race

{Friday, October 09, 2009} ANOTHER BELMONT PREVIEW DAY AWAITS Hopeful S. (G1) hero DUBLIN (Afleet Alex) is the marquee attraction in the $400,000 Champagne S. (G1), one of three Grade 1 stakes on Saturday's card at Belmont Park. The companion

{Thursday, October 08, 2009} SWIFT TEMPER TRIES POLYTRACK Mark Stanley’s Swift Temper, who upset Seventh Street last month in the Ruffian Handicap (gr. I), will make her first start on a synthetic surface in more than three years as she

{Monday, October 05, 2009} BREEDERS CUP RUNNERS ABOUND Belmont S. (G1), Travers S. (G1) and newly minted Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) winner SUMMER BIRD (Birdstone) was his usual self Sunday morning -- alternately snoozing and peering alertly

{Friday, October 02, 2009} Summer Bird seeks historic win in Jockey Club Back in May, a chestnut son of 2004 Belmont S. (G1) winner Birdstone arrived at Belmont Park with a little-known trainer, no jockey, and just one victory from four races

{Thursday, October 01, 2009} Much drama surrounds Classic ARCADIA, Calif. - The results of last year's Breeders' Cup, the first ever run on a synthetic surface, have had a major impact on this year's event, to be held Nov. 6 and 7 here at Santa