This year’s Classic featured nine horses after Sovereignty, the 2025 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner, was scratched with a fever.

Yoshito Yahagi trainee Forever Young scores a huge win for Japanese horse racing, holding off a hard charge from defending champion Sierra Leone to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar.

As Jenson Button calls time on his racing career, it felt only right to look back at a race considered as his best - and how ...