Fast-finishing Cygames Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner T O Elvis was one of the big movers in the latest edition of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2026, along with another Japan-based runner in Danon Decile.

T O Elvis improved his rating to 124 from 120 when he rallied from 12^th of 13 to win the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint by 1 ¼ lengths over Englishman (122 rating) Oct. 31 at Keeneland. Earlier this year, T O Elvis won the Grade 1 Churchill Downs Stakes Presented by Ford for trainer Daisuke Takayanagi and owner Tomoya Ozasa.

Deterministic defeats Notable Speech in Breeders' Cup Mile (Eclipse Sportswire)

Others to impress during the Breeders’ Cup World Championships Oct. 30-31 include Deterministic (122) and The Puma (122). Deterministic defeated Notable Speech (125) by three-quarters of a length in the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile Presented by PDJF. His other top-level victories this year include the Fourstardave Stakes and Resorts World Casino Manhattan Stakes.

The Puma joins the rankings following his second-place finish to Sovereignty (125) in the $ 7 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic. In his previous start, The Puma won the Pennsylvania Derby over Further Ado, who went on to win the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile.

Japan-based Danon Decile (124) joins this year’s World’s Best Racehorse Rankings following his dominant victory in the Tenno Sho (Autumn), which he won by 2 ½ lengths.