Last weekend’s Saturday and Sunday cards at Kentucky Downs featured eight stakes races worth a combined $15 million in purses, and the ripple effect on the Equibase leaderboards measuring earnings in North American Thoroughbred racing was significant, to say the least. When Sunday’s final race was made official, standings in multiple divisions had been reshaped by results at the turf-only track in south central Kentucky.

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.