So, Big Brown, since the Belmont Stakes catastrophe, has been life and death to beat Coal Play in the Haskell Invitational and Proudinsky in the counterfeit accommodation staged on Saturday at Monmouth Park. This guarantees that he will be New Jersey Horse of the Year but does nothing to define the animal...

This is the first of 15 weekly news releases focusing on the horses and races leading to the 25th Breeders’ Cup World Championships on Friday, October 24 and Saturday, October 25 at Santa Anita Park. For more information, please visit www.breederscup.com.To track leading contenders to the Breeders’ Cup...