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Richard Mandella: A Lifelong Horseman Who Crafted a Hall of Fame Career

As Richard Mandella reflected in 2017 on his magnificent training career, he said that he drew greater motivation from fear of failure than aspirations of greatness.

“I never had any great dreams about what it actually became. Hall of Fame and all of that, it never entered my mind,” he said. “I just wanted to be some kind of success.”

Big-Race Showdown, Roberto Rodriguez, Jessica Paquette, Ashley Mailloux, America's Best Racing, horse racing, ABR

Rodriguez, Paquette, and Mailloux Shined in Ninth Season of Big-Race Showdown

America’s Best Racing’s ninth season of “Big-Race Showdown” came right down to the wire like any great horse race.

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Wise Dan: How One Racehorse Defined What It Means to Be a Champion

What defines a champion?

Is it talent; the raw ability that gives an athlete the ability to excel in their sport? Is it accomplishments; the record of achievements that their talent enables them to compile? Or is it something else entirely; an innate desire to perform as well as possible and give your all every time you compete?

Elite Power, legends, champion, sprinter, Curlin, Juddmonte, Bill Mott, Breeders’ Cup Sprint, Irad Ortiz, jockey, trainer, pedigree, breeding, yearling, Keeneland, Garrett O’Rourke, Khalid bin Abdullah, Broadway’s Alibi, horse racing, ABR

Elite Power: Two-Time Breeders’ Cup Winner and a Modern-Day Sprint Sensation

When Curlin retired to stud in 2008, hopes were high that the 2007 Preakness Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, who was also third in the Kentucky Derby and second in the Belmont Stakes, could produce horses that would follow in his hoofprints and win route dirt races at the highest level.

Pegasus World Cup, Breeders’ Cup, Challenge Series, Breeders’ Cup Classic, entry fee, starter, qualifier, qualifying, Gulfstream Park, Keeneland Race Course, 1/ST, Drew Fleming, Aidan Butler, horse racing, ABR

Pegasus World Cup Joins Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series for 2026

LEXINGTON, Ky. & HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (Nov. 13, 2025) – The $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes will for the first time be included in the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: Win and You’re In, Breeders’ Cup Limited and 1/ST announced Thursday.

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