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Welcome to our LIVE coverage of Breeders’ Cup 2026 Championship Saturday!

Welcome to our LIVE Breeders’ Cup 2026 Future Stars Friday coverage, your home for a jam-packed day of juveniles.

This study on how Kentucky Derby alumni fare in the Breeders' Cup Classic reveals that 17 Breeders' Cup Classics have been won by Kentucky Derby alumni, or 40% of the total.

Though Forty Niner just missed wearing roses in 1988, he went on to a celebrated career on and off the track, a champion representing a storied tradition of Thoroughbred greatness.

An historical look at Kentucky Derby runners who had competed in turf races that are now qualifiers on the Euro/Mideast Road.

Alcibiades, the 1930 Kentucky Oaks winner and Derby competitor, is commemorated with a Grade 1 race in her honor on the opening Friday of Keeneland’s fall meet.

In the 1966 Kentucky Oaks, the ancestress of Splendora and Auguste Rodin (Native Street) beat the ancestress of Flightline and Golden Tempo (Lady Pitt).

In 1983, a strapping bay colt named Slew o' Gold crossed the finish line at Churchill Downs in a disappointing fourth place. To the casual observer, he was just another beaten favorite on racing’s biggest stage. But while winner Sunny's Halo took the...

Just as the Road to the Kentucky Derby kicks off with Saturday’s Iroquois (G3) at Churchill Downs, so does its sister race, the Pocahontas (G3), open the Road to the Kentucky Oaks for fillies.

Horses who catch the eye today may be overtaken by horses we haven’t even seen yet, either later this fall, or as the trail heats up next spring.