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San Diego Style: Your Guide to an Unforgettable 2025 Breeders’ Cup Watch Party

There is no event in Thoroughbred racing quite like the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

While other horse racing events feature a compelling full day of racing, they are almost always built upon one major race. The Breeders’ Cup, on the other hand, is a two-day event with 14 championship races across multiple divisions that helps crown myriad champions and highlight the best of the best in the sport.

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Perseverance Pays Off for Veteran Trainer Campbell, Breeders’ Cup Hopeful Patriot Spirit

Mike Campbell’s gut told him he would eventually follow the lead of his grandfather and father by becoming a trainer. The former jockey never anticipated the awful turn that would lead him to that second career and now a second trip to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

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Sekt, Street Ready Among Many Standouts at 2025 Thoroughbred Makeover

The versatility of Thoroughbreds was on display just a few miles from Keeneland Race Course Oct. 8-11 when the Retired Racehorse Project crowned 10 Thoroughbred Makeover champions at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington.

After two days of preliminary competition, the event’s new format was on display when 10 horses from each discipline continued competing in the ring they had visited in the preliminaries for the championship round on Saturday.

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On the Rise: Breeders’ Cup’s Erin McLaughlin

When Erin McLaughlin graduated from University of Florida with a degree in tourism and hospitality management, and a minor in communications, there were many different directions she could have taken.

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CARMA Goes Big for Horses, Ensuring ‘Aftercare is Not an Afterthought’

When it comes to horses, even the most cynical of souls has a hard time not falling for the large eyes and dynamic ears of a Thoroughbred. We are captivated by their hearts on the track and their personalities off of it, their faces as familiar to us as those of family and friends. They become a part of our racing lives and their welfare beyond their time in racing matters to us all. Enter organizations like California Retirement Management Account, or CARMA.

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