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Fierceness Retains Top Spot, Little Movement in Latest Breeders' Cup Classic Poll

Each week a panel of media members, horseplayers, and Breeders’ Cup World Championships officials release a poll tabulating their votes ranking the top contenders for the 2024 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic. The results 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.

2024 Woodward Stakes, Belmont at the Big A, Skippylongstocking, Crupi

2024 Woodward Stakes at a Glance

The Woodward Stakes has been won throughout eight decades of racing history by some of the greatest racehorses ever to set hoof on a racetrack as one of the sport’s marquee dirt races.

Vosburgh Stakes, Belmont at the Big A, Eclipse Sportswire

2024 Vosburgh Stakes at a Glance

The Vosburgh Stakes may not have a star-studded field but there could be a Breeders’ Cup starter in an evenly matched field of seven. The seven-furlong stakes offers the winner an expenses-paid-spot in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint Nov. 2 at Del Mar via the “Win and You’re In” Challenge Series for the World Championships.

National Treasure, Muth, California Crown Stakes Presented by SirDavis American Whisky, Santa Anita Park, Eclipse Sportswire

2024 California Crown Stakes Cheat Sheet: Get to Know the Horses

One of Southern California’s signature races will be held with a new name and a significantly boosted purse in 2024 as the rebranded $1 million California Crown Stakes Presented by SirDavis American Whisky anchors a robust card Sept. 28 at Santa Anita Park.

Thorpedo Anna, Seize the Grey Surge Up Equibase Leaderboard

There was significant movement within the top 10 in the racehorse category on the Equibase North American purse earnings leaderboard last week courtesy of two $1 million, Grade 1 races at Parx Racing: the Pennsylvania Derby and the Cotillion Stakes.

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