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Tom Law 
Two spectacular afternoons of racing were staged in the cradle of the American Thoroughbred world Friday and Saturday, at a Kentucky racetrack that proudly boasts being a place for “racing as it’s meant to be” and once again it was a colt of destiny who shined brightest with a sublime performance for the ages.
Todd Pletcher finished an interview with an international television journalist and a few writers walking back through the paddock at Keeneland, paused for a moment, glanced up at the big screen on the back of the limestone and glass stand and wore the look of complete satisfaction.
Annise Montplaisir, a junior at North Dakota State University in Fargo who spent last summer as an intern on the staff at The Saratoga Special, looks back at a memorable Breeders’ Cup experience from the not-so-distant past in a recent post on her Annise’s Anecdotes blog.
The first horse racing magazine I ever opened was a copy of the May/June 2008 issue of Thoroughbred Style.
Most of the social events are over, nearly all training is complete and Keeneland Race Course is decked out in purple. The 2015 Breeders’ Cup World Championships is here.
The 2015 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Keeneland isn’t short on remarkable stories. The obvious ones get most of the press and sound bytes, from Triple Crown winner American Pharoah’s bid to add the Breeders’ Cup Classic to his glistening resume and go out a winner to Thursday’s scratch of champion mare Beholder, they’re all covered over and over.
David Fawkes outlined his plan – one he no doubt formulated well before the moment – under the warmth of the Saratoga sun minutes after Sheer Drama gamely turned back a couple of formidable foes to win the Grade 1 Personal Ensign in late August on the Travers Day undercard.
A few minutes after Limousine Liberal got a minor shoe adjustment as training hours wound down Wednesday morning, Ben Colebrook was stopped by a fellow trainer on his way out of the Rice Road barn area at Keeneland who wanted to pass along some of the latest scuttlebutt.
The doorbell rang off the hook – if a doorbell has a hook – at the H. E. “Tex” Sutton Forwarding Co. office at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington Tuesday morning and afternoon.
Members of the media, onlookers, representatives of van companies and others got buzzed in, came and went, and eventually returned to gather in the equine shipping company’s small hanger a little before 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Heavy rains all day Tuesday brought back memories of the water-logged Breeders’ Cup of 2007 at Monmouth Park – the lone time the World Championships ventured to the Jersey Shore.
Eddie Kenneally, who considers Lexington home and is excited for the Breeders’ Cup’s return to the Commonwealth, wouldn’t mind if Bradester felt like he was back in New Jersey when he goes in Friday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Keeneland.
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah was pegged as the 6-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic during a special post-position draw event Monday night at the Maker’s Mark Bourbon Lounge at Keeneland Race Course.
