record-breaker

Twenty-five years ago, Cigar put together a perfect 10-for-10 season in the middle of a streak of 16 straight wins. We remember it here. It was the sixth race on an ordinary Friday card in October at Aqueduct some 26 years ago and there was nothing to suggest that the $34,000 allowance event would ever have any relevance. Jose Santos was aboard the favorite, a recent allowance winner who started out at Suffolk Downs named Golden Plover. Julie Krone had the mount for Tom Skiffington on second-choice Taddarruj. The third...

Courtesy of a double at Compiegne on Wednesday, Christophe Soumillon became the winning-most jockey in French racing history, his tally of 3,315 victories taking him past the figure set by Yves Saint-Martin. Belgian-born Soumillon, 38, already held one notable record, his total of 305 victories in 2017 being the highest ever achieved in France in one year. Having collected his first Cravache d'Or (the prize given to France's champion jockey) in 2003, Soumillon currently has 10 championships to his name (he tied with Pierre-Charles Boudot in 2015) and he is...