The top horses and humans will be honoured at the 51st Eclipse Award ceremony at Santa Anita racetrack on February 10.
Essential Quality
Selections and notes about the nine races on the Saturday card of the 38th Breeders' Cup World Championships.
Fourteen races over two days were drawn on Nov. 1 for the 38th Breeders' Cup at Del Mar in San Diego; Essential Quality heads Classic.
Fourteen races over two days with the best racehorses in the world, the Breeders' Cup edition 38 is Friday and Saturday, November 5 and 6.
The two-day, 14-race event, this year held at Del Mar in California, has a record number of overseas entrants, but few Canadians.
Tapit colt continues his reign over the three-year-old set in America with another well-timed bid to the lead.
Brad Cox may become just the third trainer ever and first since 1942 to win the Travers and Whitney in the same year with different horses.
Chiefswood Stables' big colt will take on champion Essential Quality in the Saratoga race that leads to the important Grade 1 Travers.
The grey Tapit colt won a long stretch battle with Hot Rod Charlie to give his sire a record-tying fourth winner of the famous race.
A small field has been gathered for the 1 1/2-mile final jewel of the American Triple Crown, including Preakness winner Rombauer.
A field of nine is expected for the 1 1/2 mile 'Test of Champions' as the American Triple Crown comes to a close.
The Oaks is Friday April 30, the Kentucky Derby, May 1, and here are some picks and plays and longshots to consider.
Favourite draws well while Derby field made up of half strong contenders, half fillers, in the 147th edition of the famous race.
Champion juvenile of 2020 wins Blue Grass, while Bourbonic upsets Wood Memorial, Rock Your World takes Santa Anita Derby.
The 15-day spring meeting begins April 2 with some fans permitted and a host of important stakes races on most of the cards.
