The Distaff Nobody Saw Coming Is Back in the Conversation

America's Best Racing has returned to one of the great upsets of the modern Breeders' Cup, the Distaff run at the thirty-eighth World Championships in 2021. That year a filly shipped in from Japan, barely given a thought against the strongest group of older females the series had assembled in years, and beat them all. The feature revisits that afternoon as one of its fantastic finishes, and it earns the billing. For anyone who stood at the rail in a Breeders' Cup crowd, it remains the kind of result that makes the whole sport worth following.

With reporting from America's Best Racing.