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Breeders’ Cup Archive

“Demonstrating the kind of decisive superiority seldom seen at the highest level of thoroughbred racing, Ghostzapper thrashed the $4 million Breeders Cup Classic yesterday to stamp himself not only the best horse in America but maybe the whole universe. He was, in a word, stupendous!” (New York Post)
More: Ghostzapper’s performance leaves “no doubt as to Horse of the Year” (Daily Racing Form); trainer Bobby Frankel “gets bonus points for his ability to strategize” (Times Union); and Ghostzapper was the best horse in the Classic but, “Is he better than Smarty Jones?” (Boston Globe)
Related: It wouldn’t be a Breeders’ Cup without a few surprises. British shipper Wilko shocked in the Juvenile (LA Times); the “unheralded gelding” from Maryland Better Talk Now held off favorite Kitten’s Joy in the Turf (ESPN); and trainer Todd Pletcher gets not one, but two wins in the Breeders’ Cup (New York Times)
Complete results (Equibase)
Watch the races (MSNBC)

“From the outset, when the inaugural running was billed as the best day of racing staged anywhere and surpassed even that expectation, the Breeders’ Cup has provided a stage on which the key elements of the thoroughbred — speed, stamina and courage — are put to the acid test, as are the skills of the world’s most accomplished riders and trainers; a level field upon which the most powerful stables and those of more modest means compete eye to eye, the outcome is always left to the animals….” (Newsday)

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