On Racing

Andy Serling & Megan Burgess look back at the Breeders’ Cup Distaff & Breeders’ Cup Classic results.

Fasig-Tipton’s November Sale, the company’s prestigious breeding stock sale, takes place Nov. 3 in Lexington, with some of the highest-quality weanlings, broodmares, and broodmare or racing prospects in North America on offer.

At the wire, The Big Con fended off Silent Tactic by three-quarters of a length to earn his first stakes badge. Wembley Avenue, at 83-1, was third, and Buium finished fourth.

Chad Brown won his 36th individual training title on The New York Racing Association circuit when leading all trainers with 32 wins at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

Bishops Bay got back to his winning ways Nov. 2 in the $175,000 Forty Niner Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct Racetrack, prevailing by 3/4 of a length over Nelson Avenue, securing him an automatic fees-waived berth into the $500,000 Cigar Mile (G2).

As euphoric as Forever Young’s victory in the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) may have been, there was one bittersweet moment for trainer Yoshito Yahagi Nov. 1.

Purchased in May from the Inglis Digital Sale, Regaled has seen steady improvement in the barn of trainer Whit Beckman that led to a third-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) at Del Mar Nov. 1.

She’s Quality (IRE), who fractured her pelvis Nov. 1 in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) at Del Mar, was humanely euthanized overnight after receiving care at San Luis Rey Equine Hospital.

Darley Stallion’s Cody’s Wish and Juddmonte Farms’ Elite Power lead the 2025 first-crop sire class by book quality, as indicated by the Comparable Index and Class Performance Index.