Allen Paulson, one of the most prominent owners and breeders in Thoroughbred racing history before his death on July 19, 2000, at age 78, embodied the American dream.
Each week a panel of media members, horseplayers, and Breeders’ Cup World Championships officials release a poll tabulating their votes on the nation's top contenders for the 2025 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic. The rankings are a weekly rating of the top 10 horses in contention and are determined by each voter ranking their top 10 horses with points assigned on a descending 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
A plethora of juvenile races across North America this past weekend, including the first Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve and Longines Kentucky Oaks qualifying points races of the season, caused major changes on the Equibase leaderboard for 2-year-olds.
With lucrative purses and qualifying points on the line, new names emerged, divisions were reshuffled, and new rising stars began to take shape.
The Pennsylvania Derby offers 3-year-olds a last chance to chalk up a Grade 1 win in a two-turn race against horses of their own age. It will also offer a few of them a chance to pick up a Grade 1 win in a 3-year-old stakes without division leaders Sovereignty and Journalism on hand to relegate them to minor shares of the purse.
