{"id":352583,"date":"2025-11-03T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352583\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:30:16","slug":"breeders-cup-featured-several-competitors-with-local-ties-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352583\/","title":{"rendered":"Breeders\u2019 Cup featured several competitors with local ties \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A half-dozen Thoroughbreds with local ties competed at the Breeders\u2019 Cup World Championships on Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at the Del Mar racetrack.<\/p>\n<p>The top finisher was Explora, who was second in the $2 million NetJets Breeders\u2019 Cup Juvenile Fillies. She fell three-quarters of a length short of catching the winner, Super Corredora.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy filly broke well and I thought she would be on the lead, but (jockey Hector Berrios on winner Super Corredora) got aggressive and got the good spot, and that\u2019s the way it went,\u201d said Explora\u2019s trainer Bob Baffert. \u201cShe tried hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Explora is co-owned by part-time Del Mar resident Mike Pegram.<\/p>\n<p>Two fillies co-owned by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, which is headed by Rancho Santa Fe resident Aron Wellman, also competed in that race: Meaning, who was fourth; and La Ville Lumiere, who finished seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Eclipse and Pegram also had two horses in the field of the $7 million Longines Breeders\u2019 Cup Classic \u2013 Journalism (fourth) and Nevada Beach (seventh), respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Johannes, who was runner-up in last year\u2019s $2 million FanDuel Breeders\u2019 Cup Mile Presented by PDJF, was eighth in this year\u2019s edition of that race. He is owned by Joe and Debby McCloskey (CUYATHY LLC) of Solana Beach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Preakness Stakes winner Journalism schools in the paddock on Oct. 29, in preparation for the $7 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic.(Kelley Carlson)\" width=\"3595\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DMT-L-KELLEY2-1106-4107.jpg\" \/>Preakness Stakes winner Journalism schools in the paddock on Oct. 29, in preparation for the $7 million Longines Breeders\u2019 Cup Classic.<br \/>\n(Kelley Carlson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A half-dozen Thoroughbreds with local ties competed at the Breeders\u2019 Cup World Championships on Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":352584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7350,35928,7356,172498,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-352583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-del-mar-times","12":"tag-del-mar-times-sports","13":"tag-rancho-santa-fe-review","14":"tag-rancho-santa-fe-review-sports","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115485778320117422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}