Breeders' Cup Classic Contenders: Then and Now
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Contenders in this year’s Breeders' Cup Classic have all amassed impressive résumés leading up to this year’s edition of the premiere end of the year race for fillies and mares; but before they were stars on the racetrack, they were unnamed foals playing in fields.
Thanks to The Jockey Club, the breed registry for American Thoroughbreds that you see running at tracks every day, we’ve tracked down baby pictures of the probable runners in this year’s Classic so you can see how far they’ve come. The signs in some of the images indicate the foal's dam (mother) and year of birth for identification, since the foals were unnamed at the time.
All photos of adult horses courtesy of Eclipse Sportswire unless otherwise indicated.
American Pharoah - Then
Now
Photo by Penelope P. Miller
Beholder - Then
Now
Photo by Penelope P. Miller
Effinex - Then
Now
Photo by Penelope P. Miller
Frosted - Then
Now
Photo by Penelope P. Miller
Gleneagles - Then
Now
Hard Aces - Then
Now
Honor Code - Then
Now
Photo by Penelope P. Miller
Keen Ice - Then
Now
Photo by Penelope P. Miller
Smooth Roller - Then
Now
Photo by Benoit Photos
Tonalist - Then
Now
Photo by Penelope P. Miller