Oh When The Saints
The 2014 Breeders Cup World Championships meeting was full of highs and lows. Robert Kieckhefer reviews the action from Day 2
3rd November 2014
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The 2014 Breeders Cup World Championships meeting was full of highs and lows. Robert Kieckhefer reviews the action from Day 2
The 2014 Breeders’ Cup World Championships opened with a bang on Friday, 31 October with Goldencents posting a historic double in the Dirt Mile and Untapable proving unstoppable in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff
A stellar cast of stars descend on Santa Anita for the 31st running of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships this Friday and Saturday. BOYLAN OVER
2014 sees the 31st renewal of the Breeders Cup, first held at in 1984. Sarah Whitelaw looks at which of these rich championship races has exerted the most influence on the stud book.
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
