COLONIAL DOWNS WELL REPRESENTED FOR BREEDERS’ CUP
Arlington Million, Beverly D. winners among those entered
NEW KENT, VA (Oct. 27, 2026) – Sixteen horses with recent ties to Colonial Downs, topped by the winners of the Arlington Million and Beverly D., are among 186 horses entered (including also eligibles) Monday for this years’ Breeders’ Cup World Championships to be raced at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., on Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31.
Colonial Downs plus Rosie’s Gaming Emporium locations in Richmond, Hampton, Vinton, and Emporia; Rosie’s Game Room in Collinsville; Roseshire in Henrico; and Buckets OTB in Chesapeake will offer wagering for both days of the Breeders’ Cup with advanced wagering beginning on Thursday, Oct. 29.
Among the more prominent entrants are Whitham Thoroughbreds’ Burnham Square, the half-length winner of the Grade 1 Arlington Million on Aug. 1, who lines up in the $5 million Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf and the South African-bred Newstead Stables’ Gimme a Nother, winner of the Grade 2 Beverly D., who is looking for her fifth straight win in the Grade 1 $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf.
Other Colonial Downs stakes winners on Saturday’s program are Andy Guest Stakes victor Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Madaket Stables’ Roja and last year’s Da Hoss Stakes champion JAL Racing’s Doncho in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint; St. Elias Stables, WSS Racing, Turf Express Racing, and Miller Racing’s Eunomia, who captured the Sandy Bottom Stakes on this year’s Virigina Derby Day undercard in the $2 million Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Distaff; plus St. Elias Stable, Ken Langone, C. Steven Duncker and Vicarage Stable’s Deterministic the victor in the 2024 Grade 3 Virginia (now Old Dominion) Derby who heads to post in the Grade 1 $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile
Breeders’ Cup Future Stars Friday is for the 2-year-old set. The most notable of Friday’s entrants with Colonial Downs ties is Gainsway Stable and Andrew Rosen’s Emphatic, a winner in her debut here on July 25, who is tabbed as the 9-5 morning line favorite in the $2 million Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.
Also on Friday, Pin Oak Stud’s Induction, who broke his maiden here at first asking on Aug. 9; and Robert LaPenta and Madaket Stable’s Popcorn, winner of the Kitten’s Joy Stakes on Sept. 7, are among the 15 entered in the $1 million Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.
