Alex Evers

Sierra Leone, winner of the $7 million Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday, earned a 114 Brisnet Speed Rating for his effort, the highest any horse received over a weekend of championship racing.

Thebestisyettobe, a 4-year-old filly trained by Phil D'Amato tested positive for methamphetamine, a banned substance, after an Aug. 1 work at Los Alamitos.

Book'em Danno worked Friday for the first time since he was second by a neck as the odds-on favorite last out in the Grade 3 Perryville Stakes on Oct. 19.

Kinza, the 3-year-old filly who hasn't raced since April, was back at work Sunday for trainer Bob Baffert.

Book’em Danno, coming off two consecutive losses for the first time in his career, will start next in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile and then will make a return visit to Saudi Arabia.

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Book'em Danno fired a bullet Sunday morning as he prepares for his next start in the Grade 2 Cigar Mile.

The week after the Breeders' Cup, I waded into the wreckage of several divisions thrown into disarray by the results. Chaos is putting it mildly.

After saying last week that Book’em Danno would make his next start in the Grade 2 Cigar Mile, trainer Derek Ryan has entered him in the listed Steel Valley Sprint at Mahoning Valley on Monday.

Trainer Derek Ryan will stick with his original plan and run Book'em Danno in the Grade 2 Cigar Mile for his next start.