AN AIDAN O’BRIEN / BOB BAFFERT SHOWDOWN – A FASCINATING BREEDERS' CUP DUEL

By Graham Potter | Thursday, October 29, 2026

The Breeders’ Cup deadlock between champion trainers Aidan O'Brien and Bob Baffert could be broken this weekend with each stable striving to gain the upper hand and sole bragging rights in the quest to have trained the most winners in Breeders’ Cup history.

They currently share that distinction with twenty-one winners apiece, so the next winner will edge ahead, for that moment at least, in what really is a clash of the titans of the sport.

O’Brien has the edge numbers-wise this year. He brings ten runners to the two-day meeting including the strongly fancied Sun Goddess in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and Diamond Necklace in the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

Baffert is set to send out six runners headed by Hughes the favourite for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile.

Of these Sun Goddess is the first in play on Friday, followed just forty minutes later by Hughes … so that most winners tally could climb very quickly to twenty-two with still no outright leader.

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