Preakness Stakes winner Seize the Grey returned to top form with a front-running victory in the $1 million Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby Sept. 21 at Parx Racing.
Entering the 2015 Breeders’ Cup World Championships, the first ever at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, there were no shortage of compelling storylines, including the first Triple Crown winner since 1978, American Pharoah, attempting to close out his career with a win in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
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.
The Pennsylvania Derby closes out the Grade 1 dirt stakes this year for 3-year-olds and Saturday’s $1 million stakes at Parx Racing attracted one of the stars of the Triple Crown. Preakness winner Seize the Grey is among a field of 11 as he looks to get back on the winning track after losses in his last two starts.
Of the three Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series races last weekend at Woodbine, trainer Mark Casse won two of them: the Grade 1 Johnnie Walker Natalma Stakes with And One More Time and the Grade 1 Rogers Woodbine Mile Stakes
