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2025 Longines Breeders Cup Classic, Sovereignty, Fierceness, Sierra Leone, Mindframe, Forever Young, Journalism, Baeza, Antiquarian, Locked, Highland Falls

Breeders' Cup Classic Power Rankings: Sovereignty Tops Final Poll of Top 10 Contenders

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.

Keeneland, Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes, Laurelin, Fionn, America's Best Racing, horse racing, ABR

2025 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at a Glance

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.

Laurel Park, Maryland Million Classic, Jim McKay, America's Best Racing, horse racing, ABR

2025 Maryland Million Classic Stakes Cheat Sheet

The Maryland Thoroughbred industry will have its moment in the sun on Saturday, Oct. 11, when Laurel Park plays host to the 40th edition of the Jim McKay Maryland Million Day.

Rhetorical, Coolmore Turf Mile, Keeneland, Breeders’ Cup Mile, Win and You’re In, Wachtel Stable, Cheyenne Stable, Gary Barber, Will Walden, trainer, Irad Ortiz, jockey, Not This Time, pedigree, turf, speed figures, horse racing, gelding, ABR

Buy or Sell on Road to Breeders’ Cup: Coolmore Turf Mile Stakes Winner Rhetorical

Rhetorical entered 2025 with only one win and two starts to his credit. Ten months and four victories later he’s one of the leading contenders for the $2 million FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile Presented by PDJF Nov. 1 at Del Mar.

Ted Noffey, Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity, Keeneland, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, Del Mar, America's Best Racing, horse racing, ABR

Five Key Takeaways You Need to Know From a Star-Studded Weekend

With the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar coming into focus, Tom Pedulla offers takeaways from five major races this weekend that will help shape the stacked fields at the 14-race, $34-million event.

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