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Buoyed by a 1 ½-length victory in the $7 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic Nov. 2 at Del Mar, U.S.-based 3-year-old Sierra Leone improved his rating from a 120 to a 125 in the ninth edition of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2024.

Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Sierra Leone will race next year as a 4-year-old, Coolmore America announced in a social media post Nov. 7.

There were 14 Breeders’ Cup races run on Nov. 1-2, 2024, with purses of $1 million or more apiece, but those were not the only events held at Del Mar that offered seven-figure purses.

An abundance of top-tier racing this past weekend at the Breeders’ Cup resulted in major changes among the 2024 Equibase earnings standings in several categories.

Although Peter Brant, one of the co-owners of Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Sierra Leone, expressed his desire during a Nov.

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