This week on the Thoroughbred racing calendar is relatively light on graded stakes, with the marquee event – the Claiming Crown card showcasing claiming horses – occurring Saturday, Nov. 14, at Churchill Downs.
Tickets are on sale now for the 56th Annual Resolute Racing Eclipse Awards, which will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2027, at The Breakers Palm Beach. Tickets to the black-tie event are available at the NTRA website. Eclipse Awards Finalists will be announced on Saturday, Jan. 2. Each Finalist will receive two seats complimentary courtesy of The Jockey Club. Ticket availability is limited and a full sellout is expected.
If you’ve opened this story you probably are interested in the Kentucky Derby but might not know a whole lot about horse racing or the Triple Crown. Never fear, America’s Best Racing is here to help.
The Kentucky Derby is the most-watched horse race of the year in the United States and is widely considered one of the most important sporting events in the country, having grown to become much more than just a horse race since Aristides won the first edition in 1875.
An exciting 2026 Breeders’ Cup is in the books, and this week the horse racing calendar shifts to an early fall focus, with the opening of Del Mar’s Bing Crosby meet set for Friday, Nov. 6, and meets at the new Belmont Park and at Churchill Downs underway.
Electric, bursting at the seams, remarkable, and fast and furious are just a sprinkling of the vivid descriptions for Fasig-Tipton’s November Sale printed over the years in the pages of BloodHorse magazine.
Billed decades ago as the “Night of the Stars” sale in the afterglow of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, the November sale has morphed into much more than a Thoroughbred breeding stock auction. It is an event. Come for the “stars,” savor the fireworks.
