The 26th edition of the Breeders' Cup World Championships got underway Friday at Santa Anita Park under sunny skies with a post-time temperature of 70 degrees. This is the second straight year the World Championships are being held at Santa Anita.

Life Is Sweet, stablemate of champion mare Zenyatta, came roaring down the stretch Friday to win the $2 million Ladies' Classic at Santa Anita to conclude the first day of the 26th Breeders' Cup World Championships. The remaining eight championship events will be conducted Saturday.

Life Is Sweet has won the $2 million Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic, going from last to first with a stretch run on the far outside.

Informed Decision held off defending champion Ventura to win Friday's $1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint at Santa Anita. Informed Decision was the 3-1 second choice behind 4-5 favorite Ventura.

Life Is Sweet led a parade of longshots to the winner's circle at the Breeders' Cup on Friday, with the stablemate of Zenyatta scoring a 2 1/2-length victory in the $2 million Ladies' Classic.

European invader Midday held off a late running Pure Clan to win Friday's $2 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita. Finishing third was 2008 winner Forever Together.

She Be Wild rallied along the inside to win the second running of the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Friday at Santa Anita. The two-year-old filly was ridden by Julien Leparoux for owner Nancy Mazzoni.

Tapitsfly, ridden by Robby Albarado, defeated Rose Catherine to win the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita.

Day One of the 26th Breeders' Cup World Championships has gotten underway at Santa Anita Park with Man of Iron winning the $500,000 Marathon. Ridden by John Murtagh, Man of Iron defeated Cloudy's Knight by a nose in the 1 3/4 mile race.

Man of Iron has won the $500,000 Breeders' Cup Marathon in a photo finish over 9-year-old gelding Cloudy's Knight.

The Breeders' Cup began in 1984 with longshot Wild Again winning the inaugural Breeders' Cup Classic. This will be the 26th running of the $5 million, 1 1/4-mile event and not a single female has crossed the finish line first.

Though this could be called the year of the female in thoroughbred racing, Ladies' Day at the Breeders' Cup Friday is lacking in star power.

While the Kentucky Derby is the 'most exciting two-minutes in sports', the two-day Breeders' Cup races are the most important days in racing.

Random drug tests will begin next year for horses in polo matches in the U.S. after the deaths of 21 elite horses in Florida that were injected with an incorrectly mixed supplement shortly before a championship match, the United States Polo Association said Wednesday.

Undefeated mare Zenyatta will take on males for the first time in Saturday's $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita Park. The 1 1/4 mile race is the concluding event of the 26th annual Breeders' Cup World Championships to be run Friday and Saturday.

She's a mare set to race against a dozen of the world's most daunting male horses for the first time in her career, but Zenyatta seems to be the one inspiring fear.

Shocking captured the $5 million Melbourne Cup on Tuesday for his second victory in four days, outdueling Crime Scene in the stretch to win by three-quarters of a length.

The next to last NTRA Thoroughbred Poll shows no changes in the positions of the top ten vote getters with the Breeders' Cup on the horizon. The World Championships take place on Friday and Saturday at Santa Anita Park.

Sassy Image beat Decelerator by two lengths Sunday in the $115,900 Pocahontas as the 21-day fall meet opened at Churchill Downs.

NASCAR red-flagged Sunday's race at Talladega following a spectacular crash involving Ryan Newman with five laps remaining.

Jockey Julia Brimo has been hospitalized in critical condition following a spill at Keeneland.

Golf legend Gary Player has been awarded the first ever Breeders' Cup Sports and Racing Excellence Award.

New York's top racetracks are off limits to trainer Jeff Mullins for six months.

Zenyatta, 2008 Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic winner, is slated to be the favorite for this year's running of the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday, November 7. This would be the five-year-old mare 's first career start against males.