The Irish trainer has now won 27 Group or Grade One races this season after Ryan Moore led Mendelssohn to victory on the first day at Del Mar 12.20am GMT Aidan O’Brien extended his own record for top-level wins in a year when Mendelssohn, the favourite, took the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf under a well-executed ride by Ryan Moore. The success was O’Brien’s 27th in a Group or Grade One race this year and he has several more chances to improve his record still further on the meeting’s main card today.Forever Unbridled took the feature event on the card, the Distaff, under an unconventional ride by John Velazquez, who took the mare around the outside of the field coming around the home turn and held the late charge of Abel Tasman in the closing stages to win by half a length. 11.48pm GMT A fine race to end the day, but the real meat of this year’s Breeders’ Cup is tomorrow, when Europe has big chances in all four of the turf events to look forward to as well as U S Navy Flag and Churchill running on the dirt for Aidan O’Brien in the Juvenile and Classic respectively. It promises to be an outstanding night, I hope you’ll be able to join me for it. For now, this is Greg Wood signing off at Del Mar. Continue reading…
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