From Breeders' Cup Ltd. The Breeders’ Cup announced today a revised wagering menu which will now include the Superfecta wager on all 14 Breeders’ Cup World Championships races, October 24-25 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. In a wagering menu announcement made last week, there was not Superfecta...

From William Hill European Bookmakers William Hill have slashed Eagle Mountain’s odds from 16-1 to 7-1 for the Breeders’ Cup Turf following a massive gamble on the Mike De Kock inmate on Tuesday morning. The firm reported huge interest in the former Aidan O’Brien runner, and were forced to cut the four...

From Breeders' Cup Ltd. Reigning Horse of the Year Curlin enjoyed another lengthy stroll on Santa Anita’s synthetic Pro-Ride main track Sunday morning in what could lead to a possible meeting with Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown and other members of the equine elite in the $5 million...

From NYRA There are those who would rather be lucky than good, but Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel doesn’t subscribe to that theory – at least as far as Vineyard Haven is concerned. In a race that had more trouble lines than a country-western song, the two-year-old son of Lido Palace proved to be...

By Ray Paulick Shares in Magna Entertainment (MECA), the debt-ridden racetrack operating company controlled by Frank Stronach, plunged by 56% in Tuesday’s trading on the NASDAQ exchange. Closing at $1.75 per share (down from $4.00) under extremely heavy trading (more than 30 times higher than the...

Well before Sunday’s first light, Curlin was en route to California and possibly an attempt, after having won his second Jockey Club Gold Cup in a matter-of-fact demonstration of unmitigated superiority to surpass the landmark $10-million earnings mark on Saturday at Belmont Park, a possible attempt...

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...

By Indulto As I try to find tote board value when two-year-olds test their breeding beyond sprint distances and three-year-olds take on their elders, I find it ironic that supposedly less-sound juveniles now have more opportunities to run beyond a mile; although the Breeders' Cup did back off from...

From Breeders' Cup Lts. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has agreed to chair the Breeders’ Cup Host Committee, which will promote horse racing’s most prestigious international event, the 2008 Breeders’ Cup World Championships, to be held at Santa Anita Park on October 24-25. “The very first...

From Breeders' Cup Ltd. Trainers of horses that test positive for anabolic steroids at this year’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita Park will face a one-year suspension from the event; and trainers who violate steroid regulations three times will face a lifetime ban from participating...