TDN Podcast

Mark Cornett, who owns and operates C2 Racing with his brother Clint Cornett, joined this week's TDN Writers' Room to discuss what's in store for stable stars White Abarrio, Soul of an Angel and more.

David Ingordo talks Zenyatta,

Trainer Kevin Attard joined this week's TDN Writers' Room after earning his first Breeders' Cup victory with superstar Moira. He discussed what the win meant to him and how it felt to part with his leading earner after she sold for $4.3 million two days after reaching the winner's circle.

Hall of Famer Jerry Bailey has won 15 Breeders' Cup races and has watched hundreds more in person as a commentator for NBC Sports. Always on top of things and not afraid to voice his opinions, Bailey joined the TDN Writers' Room Podcast sponsored by Keeneland to discuss Breeders' Cups past and present.

TDN's Brian Sheerin catches up with John Foley and Sean Grassick to review the 2024 yearling sales. What went well and where was there room for improvement? They cover all this and more.

Trainer Chad Brown joins this week's TDN Writers' Room to discuss a stacked lineup of Breeders' Cup-bound trainees, from juvenile Chancer McPatrick to highly regarded older horses Carl Spackler and Domestic Product.

When it comes to winning Breeders' Cup races, no rider does it better than Mike (Big Money) Smith. His 27 wins leads all jockeys and is seven wins better than runner-up John Velazquez. With the Breeders' Cup quickly approaching, Smith sat down with the team at the TDN Writers' Room Podcast presented by Keeneland and took us on a trip down memory lane. Smith was this week's Guest of the Week.

Of the 27 wins, is one his favorite?

“It would have to be Zenyatta (in the 2009 Classic),” he said. “That was a day that I think even other trainers that had horses in the race were rooting for her. It was crazy. It was just one of those special things. She was that good.”

In our breeding spotlight section we took a look at the WinStar stallion Timberlake.

Elsewhere on the podcast, which is also sponsored by the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders' Association, West Point Thoroughbreds, WinStar, XBTV.com, Darley America and 1/ST Racing, the team of Randy Moss, Zoe Cadman and Bill Finley congratulated Irad Ortiz Jr. on his 4,000th win, but predicted he will come nowhere lose to breaking the record set by Russell Baze, who has 12,842 career wins. The reason is that there is much less racing now than there was in Baze's heyday. The panel also brought up the fact that the GI Queen Elizabeth II S. and the GII Sands Point S., both races on the turf for 3-year-old fillies, were run on the same day. With the foal crop as low as it is, getting big fields for stakes races grows harder by the year.

After Godolphin scored an Alcibiades-Breeders' Futurity double at Keeneland, the operation's Director of Bloodstock joined this week's TDN Writers' Room to recap the weekend and look ahead to the Breeders' Cup.

Jockey Dylan Davis joined this week's TDN Writers' Room to discuss his win aboard

It's the inagural weekend of the California Crown out at Santa Anita, and the Writers' Room team talks to 1/ST Racing's Peter Rotondo about what we can expect from the event.