With another year coming to an end, nine BloodHorse staff members voted on the best races of 2024.
Ranked No. 4 is the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) Nov. 2 at Del Mar.
How it played out
If there was any doubt that 2024 belonged to 3-year-olds, they faded from sight after the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
Not only were 3-year-olds first and second under the wire, but a 3-year-old from Japan who was third by two noses in the Kentucky Derby (G1) was third in a star-studded field that truly featured the best dirt males in the world. Among the field of 14 were three starters from a Japan and Europe’s City of Troy who was trying dirt for the first time but was so accomplished on turf that he was considered by many to be the best horse in the world.
Yet they were no match for Sierra Leone and Fierceness who turned the $7 million Classic into a gem.
Fierceness, who beat Sierra Leone in the Travers Stakes…
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