By Blood-Horse Staff   Photo: Crawford Ifland Fort Larned   Trainer Ian Wilkes plans to give Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) winner Fort Larned a break after his taxing effort Nov. 3 and is hoping to return to Santa Anita Park next fall for the 30th World Championships in 2013 . Wilkes made his comments the Read more »

By   Fort Larned rewarded his connections’ faith with a scintillating victory in Saturday’s $4,545,000 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita, holding off a game Mucho Macho Man to score by a half-length on the wire. The Janis R. Whitham homebred gave trainer Ian Wilkes and jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. their first Breeders’ Cup wins, Read more »

By Morton Fink’s homebred Wise Dan stated his case for Horse of the Year by blitzing an international field in Saturday’s $1,818,000 Breeders’ Cup Mile, and put an exclamation point on his victory by speeding in a Santa Anita course-record 1:31.78 on the firm turf. With jockey John Velazquez orchestrating an ideal passage throughout, Wise Read more »

Rail Trip, a seven year old gelded son of Jump Start, ran a game second in the $1,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) at Santa Anita on November 3rd.  Owned by Jay Em Ess Stable and trained in California by Ron Ellis, Rail Trip shifted out past the three sixteenths pole and finished well only Read more »