The final round of prep races for the 2025 Breeders’ Cup is behind us and the fields for the 14 World Championship races have come into focus. For fans and bettors, there is nothing quite like this two-day Thoroughbred racing extravaganza.
Fall racing is hitting its stride with just over three weeks remaining until the 2025 Breeders’ Cup. Sixteen “Win and You’re In” Challenge Series races across North America headlined last weekend’s action, many taking place during the opening three-day span of Keeneland’s Fall Meet dubbed Fall Stars Weekend.
One of the must-attend events on the North American racing calendar, this year’s Far Hills Race Meeting is set for Oct. 18. Excitement is building for the one-day crown jewel of steeplechasing, held at the picturesque Moorland Farm in Far Hills, N.J., and a terrific card has been organized, anchored by the $250,000 American Grand National, a Grade 1 stakes.
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.
As much as the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Presented by Dixiana is a Grade 1 stakes, it is typically not a steppingstone to the Breeders’ Cup because it is restricted to 3-year-old fillies just three weeks before the World Championships and its 1/8-mile distance. But, with the quality of the fillies it attracts, don’t be surprised if some of the fillies in the field Oct.
