The 38th Breeders’ Cup World Championships are set for Nov. 5-6 at Del Mar in Southern California, and excitement is ramping up to its customary fever pitch.
The 38th running of the Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic, set for Nov. 6 at Del Mar, is horse racing’s championship event and serves as the unofficial finale of the 2021 season before attention shifts to preparing for the 2022 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve during the late fall, early winter, and into next spring.
You have targeted a 2-year-old for private purchase that you are convinced can win the Runhappy Del Mar Futurity in your own backyard and eventually go on to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. He possesses abundant speed, he is responsive to his rider and he will fight, fight, fight.
The Maryland racing industry will be in the spotlight this Saturday, when Laurel Park hosts the 36th Jim McKay Maryland Million card. The 12-race slate features a plethora of stakes races, restricted to horses sired by a stallion standing in Maryland.
Having already won the Aug. 22 Dance Smartly Stakes, a Grade 2 race going 1 1/4 miles on the Woodbine turf, Mutamakina used similar pace-stalking tactics to capture the $600,000 E.P. Taylor Stakes at the same course and distance Oct. 17.