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 2021 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic.
This Saturday marks the headline race of the 2021 Del Mar season, when a field of nine top older horses will battle in the $1 million, Grade 1 TVG Pacific Classic Stakes. The race was inaugurated in 1991 as part of the defunct American Championship Racing Series, and has since become a key race on the national racing calendar.
A grandfather’s dream merges with his grandson’s ambition when Tino Attard saddles Joshua’s Keep Grinding for the $1 million Queen’s Plate on Sunday at Woodbine.
The oldest continuously run race in North America has produced its share of against-all-odds tales since its establishment in 1860. This one surely ranks among them.
It started as the Arlington Million and thrilled millions of fans in the decades after John Henry beat The Bart by a nostril in the 1981 inaugural edition of the $1 million international classic.
