There is so much behind the name of Arthur’s Ride, who looms as a contender when the $7 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic is run Nov. 2 at Del Mar.
It was a quiet Sunday morning at Churchill Downs Sept. 15, but you could feel the joy and excitement at the barn of trainer Phil Bauer as Iroquois Stakes inner Jonathan’s Way came out for his morning bath just after 7 a.m. ET.
Tom Pedulla offers takeaways from a racing weekend highlighted by competition at Toronto’s Woodbine Racetrack. Woodbine hosted three Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series races Saturday that offered automatic, fees-paid berths in corresponding contests at the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar.
Nineteen times she met the starter and in 15 of those Enable was the first across the line. Her 12-race win streak spanned three seasons as she matured from filly to mare, no stage too big for this homebred Juddmonte star. Under the Twin Spires, she showed what she was made of, adding Breeders’ Cup victor to her already stellar résumé. A record-breaking career not only made Enable a star in Europe, but her stateside performance made her a queen of hearts everywhere.
Slipping up the inside of front-running stablemate Filo Di Arianna, Win for the Money rallied to score a 13-1 upset under jockey Patrick Husbands in the Grade 1 $1 million Rogers Woodbine Mile Stakes Sept. 14 at Woodbine.
