The July 25 main event is one of the highlights of the sport's summer, and features a clash of the generations as Calandagan, Masquerade Ball, and Benvenuto Cellini square off.
Breeders' Cup Charities' Annual Day of Giving returns July 22, exactly 100 days before the Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland. A $100,000 matching gift from Ken Freirich will double donations in support of Thoroughbred industry charities.
Dollars & Sense with Frank Angst looks at how Woodbine and NYRA are partnering with technology companies to provide new handicapping and wagering tools for horseplayers.
The July 20 Hawthorne Race Course bankruptcy hearing provided a triple whammy for horsemen: Racing is over; there is no money to pay some $1 million in purses due to them; and they have to clear out from their backstretch home by Aug. 31.
Mizdirection won the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1) in 2012 and 2013, and retired with more than $1.7 million in earnings. She would sell later as a broodmare prospect for $2.7 million. She was the second stakes winner produced by Deceptive.
On the July 20 episode of BloodHorse Monday: Lindsay Schultz on winning the Haskell Stakes (G1) with Baby Vino, Umberto Rispoli takes us through Journalism's San Diego Handicap (G2), and Atlantic Six's Jay Briscione on the honor of Book'em Danno Day.
The 2026 Autumn Meet at Santa Anita Park will feature 26 stakes races that includes seven "Win and You're In" events for this year's Breeders' Cup. Santa Anita's 19-day Autumn Meet opens Sept. 25 and runs through Nov. 1.