Breeders' Cup Festival 2025/29

Racing Famous Races/Horses
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The Breeders’ Cup day is tomorrow in Final Furlong, and this weekend in real life!

8 furlongs Stakes for 2yo (Turf) – Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (Grade 1) $2,000,000

11 horses entered, and the favourite is Golden Fool bred by Generous Bloodstock and owned by Littlefield. He won two Grade 1 stakes already. Headed Nowhere also has 89 points, bred and owned by Cricket Hill.

8.5 furlongs Stakes for 2yo F (Dirt) – Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (Grade 1) $2,000,000

9 horses entered, but the favourite Highway Runaway is not there. She’s entered in australian Champagne Stakes instead. Second on the qualified list is RowRowRowYourBoat, bred and owned by Starfish Stables.

8 furlongs Stakes for 2yo F (Turf) – Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Fillies (Grade 1) $2,000,000

5 horses entered, including the favourite Seascape Painting bred and owned by Starfish Stables.

8.5 furlongs Stakes for 2yo (Dirt) – Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (Grade 1) $2,000,000

This race has 7 entries, and the highest qualified are Backstage Crew bred and owned by Cricket Hill, and Sigma Iotia bred and owned by Denoux Stud. Both dark greys, and with the same amount of points!

8 furlongs Stakes for 2yo (Turf) – Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (Grade 1) $2,000,000

11 entered and there are also two favourites, Golden Fool bred by Generous Bloodstock and owned by Littlefield, and Headed Nowhere bred and owned by Cricket Hill.

7 furlongs Stakes for 3yo+ F/M (Dirt) – Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (Grade 1) $2,000,000

There are 3 mares with 63 points, but only one of them is entered: Gleaming War in the field of 7 horses. She’s bred by Final Furlong and owned by Denoux Stud.

5 furlongs Stakes for 3yo+ (Turf) – Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (Grade 1) $2,000,000

Only 5 horses and the favourite is not entered; second is Frankstown Bell bred and owned by Littlefield.

6 furlongs Stakes for 3yo+ (Dirt) – Breeders’ Cup Sprint (Grade 1) $2,000,000

7 horses entered, including favourite Pressgang bred by Coleman Branch and owned by Black Storm West. There is also Perennial by NCh. Space Chips, bred by Clicker Lab and owned by Dreadnought. He was 3rd on the qualifiers list.

9 furlongs Stakes for 3yo+ F/M (Dirt) – Breeders’ Cup Distaff (Grade 1) $2,000,000

6 mares entered but only one of the favourites, Glitteronthefloor a multi-millionaire bred by Denoux Stud and owned by Littlefield.

12 furlongs Stakes for 3yo+ (Turf) – Breeders’ Cup Turf (Grade 1) $3,000,000

7 horses entered and the favourite is Influencer, bred by Clicker Lab, by our late stallion NCh. Al Mundhir. Owned by Littlefield. I also entered Don’t Look So Smug, late nominated after he won Gr. 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. I keep my fingers crossed for both!

10 furlongs Stakes for 3yo+ (Dirt) – Breeders’ Cup Classic (Grade 1) $5,000,000

5 entered and the favourite is Jagged Beam, Kentucky Derby winner bred and owned by Littlefield.

8 furlongs Stakes for 3yo+ (Turf) – Breeders’ Cup Mile (Grade 1) $2,000,000

8 horses are entered, favourites Let Go Fool and Border Baby are both bred and owned by Littlefield.

8 furlongs Stakes for 3yo+ (Dirt) – Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (Grade 1) $2,000,000

Only 3 entered, including the favourite Silly Love Song bred and owned by Starfish Stables.

10 furlongs Stakes for 3yo+ F/M (Turf) – Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (Grade 1) $2,000,000

8 entered, and there are 3 mares with 52 points: A Puzzlement, Holy Money and Magic Abounds.

Daily Racing Form: Breeders’ Cup

Official website: real life Entries

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I love the recap, what a neat idea!

I’m a little sad because I accidentally messed up Highway Runaway’s Breeders Cup entry. I did a supplemental nomination with the intent of entering her, but forgot to ship her from Australia to Belmont and couldn’t get her there in time. :sob: I was so confused when I couldn’t enter her on Sunday and realized she was halfway across the world lol. I think she had a chance at being my first Breeder’s Cup win with a homebred, but oh well. Hopefully my other entries do well!

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I had one qualified so I shipped her to Belmont in advance, then forgot to enter her :flushed_face: :face_with_peeking_eye:

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Loved the summary by Hilda.

I noted with interest that she pointed out that three of our horses are the top ranked entries for their respective races. I’m not sure whether to be happy or not, because I remember that in previous years, the top ranked runners in the BC races don’t have a great record.

When the initial list of qualifiers was posted, we didn’t have any horses on it, so supplemented a bunch of them. We did have two horses that we supplemented for BC races that ended up not in the list for their races at entry time, so lost their supplementary entry fee. Oh well. Them’s the breaks.

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As an Aussie I find it really confusing :flushed_face: I rely on the points my horse has as the guide but then that doesn’t always relate to the order of entry. Even some I think should be eligible for certain races aren’t (The SC endurance is a prime example)

I’m not sure if the FF lists are totally accurate or I’m just an idiot :thinking: either way good luck everyone.

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Thanks for the summary! We have quite a few colts entered needing just 1-3 stakes wins to be qualified so we have fingers and toes crossed for some good results. We also have a few horses entered from our freshman stallions’ first crops.

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Good luck today everyone. Only one BC runner for us, we had a few qualifiers but stable form has been a bit up and down so decided to only risk the one runner.

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Love the recap, that was such a nice read!

Unfortunately no breeders’ cup for Gotapa this year, I’ve been so busy with real life that I missed the entry deadline. :sob:

Nevertheless excited to see what the fields will do and who will have some BC winners, good luck to all!

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Thanks Hilda, a fab overview of today’s Breeder Cup races, have a few entered so fingers crossed. Like Andy not quite sure how points work and if they work properly, did a few late nominations but just entered horses that were eligible. Good luck all :horse_racing::horse_racing::horse_racing::horse_racing::horse_racing::horse_racing:

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Meanwhile, the real life favourite, 151st Kentucky Derby winner, Sovereignity is OUT of the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
Looks like the new leader is Contrary Thinking, a 5-year-old gelding by Into Mischief, with 50-1 odds.

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Now that the results are in, here are some interesting statistics (at least I think they are).

Of the 18 top ranked runners, only 4 won their races, 5 were 2nd & 4 were 3rd. In addition, 3 of the number 1 ranked horses, didn’t run in their respective races.

The top winning owners were:-
Black Storm West - 7
Denoux - 4
Littlefield - 3
Cricket Hill - 2
Gintara - 1
Starfish Stables - 1

The top winning breeders were:-
Black Storm West - 6
Denoux - 2
Littlefield - 2
Cricket Hill - 2
Gintara - 1
Starfish Stables - 1
Coleman Branch - 1
Rainee Thoroughbreds - 1
Generous Bloodstock - 1
Final Furlong - 1

There were 17 different sires of the winners, with only Dark Ages (2) siring more than one winner.

Congratulations to the connections of all of the winners.

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Interesting! Thanks for sharing!

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This was really interesting! And made me miss eclipse awards, especially for breeder. Very proud of Dark Ages.

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Japanese Forever Young wins the Breeders’ Cup Classic:

I wanted to add who are the real life favourites in my summary, but I don’t understand this odds thing :wink:
Anyway, Forever Young was 3rd in the Breeders’ Cup Classic last year, in which he also won UAE Derby. He was also 3rd in Kentucky Derby last year and in Dubai World Cup this year. I think we could add him as a real life Famous Stallion when he retires! He’s a grandson of Deep Impact.

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It’s definitely on my list to bring back! Need to figure out how to (sensibly) handle voting from like 8 years ago. :grin:

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