Tom Law

The 2018 Breeders’ Cup started in earnest Friday with the five World Championships “Future Stars Friday” events serving as the perfect lead-in to today’s main event topped by a competitive $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic and Enable’s history-making attempt in the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf.

Ron Moquett settled into a chair in his office, out of the rain that fell in the Louisville area for what seemed like days this week, and started to flip through his spiral bound past performance printouts.

The morning before the rains started to fall, fall and fall some more on Louisville and pretty much all of Kentucky, Jeremiah Englehart kicked around Barn 41 on the Churchill Downs backstretch while Forty Under cooled out under the shedrow with other runners for this weekend’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships. “Two more days,” Englehart said, … Read more

The two-day Breeders’ Cup returns to Churchill Downs for the first time in seven years and opens with five World Championships races on the newly designed “Future Stars Friday” topped by a pair of $2 million races and the first running of a turf dash for juveniles.

Cot Campbell, prominent owner, author and longtime industry advocate, passed away at the age of 91 Saturday at his home in Aiken, S.C.

The final countdown is on for the 2018 Breeders’ Cup at Churchill Downs – the fields were set for the 14 World Championships races Monday afternoon – and key meetings in Kentucky and New York wrapped over the weekend.

The Breeders’ Cup comes “home” to Kentucky next week and there’s record interest for the 2018 World Championships at Churchill Downs. A record 221 horses, including 51 overseas runners, were pre-entered for the Nov. 2-3 Breeders’ Cup that features 14 races worth a record $30 million in purses.

Florent Geroux leaned on the outer rail just off the winner’s circle, chatted with a couple Keeneland executives and kept a close watch on the large monitor on the infield tote board.

Rick Violette Jr., longtime New York horseman and former president of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, passed away Sunday in Florida following a lengthy illness. He was 65.