America's Best Racing

Every Sunday Noel Michaels will provide free full-card picks for a one racecard in North America. A veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer, Michaels also writes a weekly “Weekend Winners” blog for America’s Best Racing with a focus on key stakes races at marquee tracks. This feature will be straight-forward: full-card picks for one Sunday slate of races of his choosi...

The day racing fans and horseplayers wait for all year for is almost here. The Breeders’ Cup Saturday program will feature the international equine and human stars of horse racing squaring off in nine championship races on Oct. 31 at Keeneland Race Course. The event will be headlined by the richest horse race in North America, the $7 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic.

The broodmare Ready to Unleash had two graded stakes winners, Brickyard Belle and Joe Shiesty, within an hour of one another Oct.

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Anyone who watched the 2022 Breeders’ Cup World Championships in person or on TV will always remember the Longines Classic first. A truly grand finale, the last of 14 World Championship races was a display of racing brilliance, as undefeated Flightline closed out his career with an 8 ¼-length runaway win.

The marquee North American race for fillies and mares on the dirt has long been the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, a staple of the World Championships since the inception of the event in 1984.

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