Laurie Ross
Iron Maidens Thoroughbreds

The Breeders’ Cup has produced some spectacular displays throughout the last 26 years, many of them created at Churchill Downs. This year should prove to be no different. We all know the big names set to defend their titles, but there are a few races where the long-shots can upset the applecart or mess up the exotics.  After long hours of research, studying the past performances until the numbers blurred together and banging my…

TrackSideView’s entire team of handicappers offer up their picks for the 2010 Breeders’ Cup races to be run at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5 and 6.  The races are listed in their running order starting with the first six that will be contested on Friday and the final eight on Saturday. (The asterisks  * are “if your world turned upside-down picks.” In other words, huge longshots.)

Good luck and enjoy the races.

BREEDERS’ CUP MARATHON

Bob Hill’s Picks:  12-9-4-6
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Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It’s here! One of the most exciting events in thoroughbred racing is back in the Midwest at Churchill Downs Friday and Saturday after spending two years at Santa Anita Park in Southern California.

The 27^th edition of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships also gets back on real dirt after the 2008 and 2009 affairs were run on a synthetic surface. The turf course at Churchill Downs normally has more of…

Ron Correll
Senior columist
Tracksideview.com

The fields were drawn Tuesday for the 14 races for the 27th Breeders’ Cup World Championships on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 5-6, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.

Defending Classic champion Zenyatta was made the 8-5 morning-line favorite as she seeks to defend her crown and become a three time Breeders’ Cup winner. Zenyatta drew post 8 in the 12-horse field. Second choice, Blame, drew the five hole. Quality Road drew the one…

Jon Forbes
NYRA/Belmont Park

ELMONT, N.Y. – To trainer Jimmy Toner, Darby Dan Farm’s legacy has long been cemented in thoroughbred racing history.

“The whole farm is built on the foundation of these fillies they’ve had for generations,” said Toner. “You talk about Claiborne, the Phipps family, Juddmonte, and Darby Dan – they’re all part of that. They’re an institution.”

Maggie Wolfendale
NYRA/Belmont Park

ELMONT, N.Y. – Rightly So just loves to go. Go in the morning. Go from the gate. And most importantly, go to the winner’s circle. In her 11-race career, Rightly So has gone there seven times, most recently in the Grade 1 Ballerina at Saratoga Race Course, a victory that earned her a start in the Breeder’s Cup Filly & Mare Sprint on Nov. 5.

“She has always been a consistent and very intense and…

Jon Forbes
NYRA/Belmont Park

ELMONT, N.Y. – For trainer Todd Pletcher, starts in the Breeders’ Cup by Quality Road and Life At Ten have been a long time coming.

After Quality Road was scratched at the starting gate for last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic, Pletcher put together a long-range plan to give the Edward P. Evans homebred another chance at competing in North America’s richest race, and he will likely be one of the favorites when he heads postward…

Jenny Kellner
NYRA/Belmont Park

ELMONT, N.Y. – Christophe Clement studied the wall of photographs in his office at Belmont Park for a moment before pointing to a winner’s circle shot of Forbidden Apple after his 2001 victory in the Grade 1 Manhattan, and then to one of Honor Glide following his 1999 triumph in the Grade 1 Sword Dancer.

“Two good ones,” said the trainer. “I’ve had some good colts, and some very good fillies, but I don’t think…

Bob Hill
Staff writer
Tracksideview.com

This week we will preview the final six races of the 2010 Breeders’ Cup not yet covered in the first two parts of the story.  Later in the week we will begin revisiting all of the races as the fields for each race become better known as the dates for racing approach.

Rain is in the forecast for five of the next ten days in Louisville, news that is bound to be good…

Jenny Kellner
NYRA/Belmont Park

ELMONT, N.Y. – There’s no tried and true formula for creating winners, but for Tizway, it’s been the patience of owner William Clifton plus the persistence of trainer Jim Bond that have added up to a trip to the Breeders’ Cup.

On Oct. 3 at Belmont Park, Tizway returned from a four-month layoff to power to an impressive five-length victory in the Grade 2 Kelso, his first in a graded stakes. The win, which earned…