Landing a daily double on the last two races of the Breeders' Cup World Championships and earning $607,800 with his win, Dave Smyth, 50, a financial planner from Lexington, won a record-setting edition of the 2025 Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge. 

All race day test samples (post-race and TCO2) collected from participants in the 2025 Breeders' Cup Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at Del Mar have been cleared by the Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit

The $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) will for the first time be included in the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series: Win and You're In, Breeders' Cup and 1/ST Racing announced Nov. 13.

Dollars & Sense with Frank Angst

After winning the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1T), Gezora will remain in the United States for her 2026 campaign and join the barn of trainer Chad Brown.

Shisospicy and Bentornato are back in their stalls at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream Park's satellite training facility in Palm Beach County, happy and sound, but the Jose D'Angelo-trained Breeders' Cup winners are hardly going to rest on their laurels.

In the Nov. 3 episode of BloodHorse Monday, we recap Breeders' Cup Saturday and hear from trainer Jose D'Angelo after winning two Breeders' Cup races with Shisospicy and Bentornato.

On Racing

Purchased in May from the Inglis Digital Sale, Regaled has seen steady improvement in the barn of trainer Whit Beckman that led to a third-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) at Del Mar Nov. 1.

As euphoric as Forever Young's victory in the $7 million Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) may have been, there was one bittersweet moment for trainer Yoshito Yahagi Nov. 1.

Andy Serling & Megan Burgess look back at the Breeders' Cup Distaff & Breeders' Cup Classic results.

She's Quality (IRE), who fractured her pelvis Nov. 1 in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) at Del Mar, was humanely euthanized overnight after receiving care at San Luis Rey Equine Hospital.

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All-sources handle for the two-day Breeders' Cup World Championships at Del Mar was $180,036,799, the third-highest wagering in the history of the event and an increase over the 2024 figure $179,218,631.

Owner Peter Brant has campaigned champion horses and has captured many of the world's biggest horse races but in the closing Breeders' Cup race of 2025 he checked another box with Gezora.

Nysos finally paid off on all the hype and anticipation that has surrounded his career, winning his first grade 1 with a gutsy victory over champion stablemate Citizen Bull in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) at Del Mar Nov. 1.

Notable Speech unleashed a devastating turn of foot in the stretch to win the Breeders' Cup Mile (G1T) at Del Mar for Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby. The Dubawi colt finished third in the event last year.

Irad Ortiz Jr., who rode three winners over the two-day 42nd Breeders' Cup World Championships, won the 23rd Bill Shoemaker Award as the outstanding jockey for the marquee event at Del Mar.

Globe-trotting superstar Forever Young defeated an ultra-competitive field to capture the $7 million Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) Nov. 1 at Del Mar.

Ethical Diamond, a horse whose reputation was built jumping hurdles, rallied down the stretch to victory en route to a course record when taking the Nov. 1 $5 million Breeders' Cup Turf (G1T) at Del Mar.