Brendan Walsh is the highest-earning trainer of 2026 to have not previously won a Breeders' Cup race, but he does not lament what could have been. He brings three runners to this year's championship.
Get to know Agate in Born in the Purple, a BloodHorse series featuring Breeders’ Cup contenders by past winning sires. The daughter of 2014 Breeders' Cup Mile winner Karakontie is entered in the Juvenile Turf (G1T). Presented by Gainesway Farm.
The son of Dubawi is 7-5 in the morning line to repeat in the Breeders' Cup Mile (G1T). He faces stiff competition from top American turf runners, led by Deterministic and Rhetorical.
At the conclusion of the Oct. 29 fourth session of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale, a total of 1,018 horses had changed hands for 33,199,500 guineas. The average price was 32,612 guineas and the median was 15,000 guineas.
Siblings to top-level winners Awtaad, Harmonize, and Portfolio Duration feature among a high-class catalog for the Tattersalls December Yearling Sale, which will take place Nov. 23 at Park Paddocks.
Dubai World Cup (G1) and Stephen Foster Stakes (G1) winner Magnitude has been scratched from the $7 million Breeders' Cup Classic (G1), according to a post from the Breeders' Cup on X.
In 2027 some of Hughes' rivals may well improve past him as they step up in distance, but right now, his data look like that of a Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) winner.