A night of upsets at Meydan culminated in Saturday’s $12 million Dubai World Cup (G1), as the 41-1 Hit Show struck top gear late to deny fellow American longshot Mixto, leaving 1-2 favorite Forever Young behind in third.

Saturday’s $5 million Dubai Turf (G1) was supposed to be all about Hong Kong legend Romantic Warrior, but the 1-5 favorite was mugged on the line by Japan’s Soul Rush.

Last year’s Japanese champion three-year-old male, Danon Decile, scored in his first international foray in Saturday’s $6 million Dubai Sheema Classic (G1) at Meydan.

As a late addition to the field for Saturday’s $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1), Dark Saffron was an unlikely candidate to crash the Straight No Chaser versus Tuz party for several reasons.

The Dubai World Cup (G1) anchors a quartet of Breeders' Cup Challenge races at Meydan Saturday, and earlier on the card, the Euro/Mideast Road to the Kentucky Derby concludes with the UAE Derby (G2).

Jockey Rachel King had a banner day at Tokyo on Sunday, winning both stakes with U.S. racing implications.

The richest race in the world became a race for the ages on Saturday, as Forever Young and Romantic Warrior fulfilled hopes of an epic clash in the $20 million Saudi Cup (G1).

On the Saudi Cup (G1) undercard, Straight No Chaser exuded class in the Riyadh Dirt Sprint (G2), and Golden Vekoma rallied in the Saudi Derby (G3).

Sierra Leone won Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) at Del Mar decisively over three-year-old rivals Fierceness and Forever Young.

Thorpedo Anna outclassed rivals in Saturday’s $1,728,000 Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) at Del Mar, drawing off to a 2 1/2-length decision.

After a pair of fast-closing seconds to start his belated 2024 campaign, More Than Looks scored a new career high in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) at Del Mar.

Full Serrano became the sixth Argentine-bred to win a Breeders’ Cup race when he turned back late challenges in Saturday’s $920,000 Dirt Mile (G1) at Del Mar.

Straight No Chaser raced prominently from the start and courageously reeled in Bentornato late in Saturday’s $1,840,000 Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) at Del Mar.

Former Canadian Horse of the Year Moira, who ran well in defeat in the past two runnings of the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1), made it third time lucky in Saturday’s renewal at Del Mar.

Godolphin’s homebred Rebel’s Romance made Breeders’ Cup history at Del Mar on Saturday, becoming the first two-time winner of the Turf (G1) in non-consecutive years.

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On Saturday at Del Mar, Soul of Angel prevailed as a 19-1 longshot in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1).

A European longshot again dominated the shortest of Breeders' Cup races at Del Mar on Saturday when Starlust won a three-way photo by a nose in the $920,000 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1).

The Aidan O’Brien/Ryan Moore tandem completed a Breeders’ Cup Friday double when Henri Matisse exploded late in the Juvenile Turf (G1).

Aidan O’Brien shipper Lake Victoria was by far the class of the field in Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1), and that enabled the 3-5 favorite to overcome a problematic trip at Del Mar.