WITH five of the weekend’s 14 Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup winners reviewed on the previous two pages, here are short summaries of the other nine.

BALANTINA (2 f. Ten Sovereigns-Balankiyla, by Montjeu)

Balantina was bred by Summerhill Farm, Lynch Bages Ltd and Seamus Murphy, and sold as a yearling at Arqana for €100,000. She was winning for the second time when taking the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf for trainer Donnacha O’Brien, and this was her first stakes win. She was group-placed at Royal Ascot and in France. She is the third Grade 1 winner in the US this year for her sire who stood his first season in Turkey in 2025.

Here also is another example of an Aga Khan Studs family producing a high-class winner for others. Balankiyla sold for just €36,000 in 2021, and now two of her daughters are pattern winners.

BENTORNATO (4 r. Valiant Minister-Her Special Way, by Put It Back)

Bred by Tanma Corporation, Bentornato (means welcome back in Italian) sold as a yearling for $45,000 in Ocala, and made $170,000 as a two-year-old, but was returned.

Just before this year’s Del Mar meeting, a 25% share in the rig sold for $1 million, and he won just over that amount with victory in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. He was runner-up last year.

One of three stakes winners for the once-raced Valiant Minister (Candy Ride), Bentornato is the only stakes winner in four generations of his dam’s family.

CY FAIR (2 f. Not This Time-Remarqued, by Arch)

Bred by Marc Keller in Kentucky, Cy Fair was purchased in Ocala for $185,000 in April, and has won $680,000 with three wins in four starts, adding the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint to a stakes win at Woodbine in Canada. Cy Fair is the first runner for her winning dam whose half-sister Crimson Advocate (Nyquist) won two Group 2 races in England, including the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot. This is the immediate family of the US champion juvenile filly Caledonia Road (Quality Road) who is also a Breeders’ Cup winner.

A 2% share in Not This Time (Giant’s Causeway) sold for $3 million before the Breeders’ Cup, and he will stand at Taylor Made for $250,000 in 2026.

FOREVER YOUNG (4 c. Real Steel-Forever Darling, by Congrats)

Third to his great rival and relation Sierra Leone (Gun Runner) last year, the Japanese-trained and bred Forever Young turned the tables this time to record his tenth win in 13 starts, and take his earnings north of $19 million. He is a Group 1 winner now in Japan, Saudi Arabia and the USA, and placed in the Kentucky Derby and the Dubai World Cup.

Bred by Northern Racing, Forever Young sold as a yearling for the equivalent of about €700,000. His dam won the Grade 2 Santa Ynez Stakes and is a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Heavenly Love (Malibu Moon), the US champion three-year-old last year and the dam of Ashford’s new sire, Sierra Leone.

NYSOS (4 c. Nyquist-Zetta Z, by Bernardini)

A $130,000 Keeneland foal, $150,000 Fasig-Tipton yearling and $550,000 Ocala breezer, the lightly-raced Nysos has won six of his seven starts, and placed second on his only prior run in a Grade 1. He has now won his first Grade 1, the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, and is the best of the nine foals of racing age from his unraced dam.

This is not a first Breeders’ Cup winner in Nysos’s family. The Atkins Susie-bred’s third dam Unbridled Elaine (Unbridled’s Song) won six of her 11 starts, with a headline victory in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Among her three stakes-winning offspring was Doncaster’s Group 2 Champagne Stakes winner Emotionless (Shamardal).

SCYLLA (5 f. Tapit-Close Hatches, by First Defence)

Juddmonte homebred Scylla secured the biggest win of her career, and first Grade 1, in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Unraced at two, unbeaten in two starts at three, she has shown the benefit of patience and only tackled a stakes race for the first time at four. She was placed three times in Grade 1s before this breakthrough win, and what an addition to the broodmare ranks she will be.

A full-sister to Grade 2 winner and Grade 1 Belmont Stakes second Tacitus (Tapit) and to a Grade 3 winner, her dam was a champion and five of her nine wins were in Grade 1 contests. Scylla is a second winner of the Distaff in her family. Her dam’s full-sister bred Idiomatic (Curlin), twice a champion and a four-time Grade 1 heroine.

SPLENDORA (4 f. Audible-Miss Freeze, by Frost Giant)

The Grade 1 Florida Derby winner Audible has his first Grade 1 winner as a sire, following success for Splendora in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. However, it has not proven to be enough to stop the WinStar sire having his fee dropped to $7,500, well down on his opening fee of $25,000. His three crops of racing age have only produced seven stakes winners.

A $175,000 Fasig-Tipton yearling purchase, Splendora has won half of her 10 starts and been runner-up four times. Bred by The Elkstone Group, she is the second foal and winner for her dam Miss Freeze, and her only win came at Belmont in a stakes race at two.

SUPER CORREDORA (2 f. Gun Runner-Super Simple, by Super Saver)

A maiden winner in three starts, Super Corredora stepped up to earn her first blacktype with a win in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. Sold by her breeder Woodford Thoroughbreds at Keeneland for $400,000, she justified the investment earning more than a million. Her sire will stand again for $250,000 at Three Chimneys next year.

Leading sire Gun Runner works the oracle with this family. Super Corredora’s dam Super Simple is a half-sister to a stakes winner by him, while another stakes-winning half-sister bred dual Grade 1 winner Gunite (Gun Runner) and his full-brother, this year’s graded stakes-winning juvenile Spice Runner.

TED NOFFEY (2 c. Into Mischief-Streak Of Luck, by Old Fashioned)

Four runs, four wins and three Grade 1 victories. It cannot be more perfect for Ted Noffey, winner of the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, Breeders’ Futurity and Hopeful Stakes. His sire, the celebrated Into Mischief, will stand at Spendthrift again in 2026 at $250,000.

Ted Noffey was bred by Aaron and Marie Jones, and sold to Spendthrift as a yearling for $650,000. The couple paid $620,000 for his dam carrying her first foal, and sold her for exactly 10 times more at Fasig-Tipton on Monday to Amo Racing. Her first two foals are winners. Streak Of Luck won six races, including a stakes, and was a Grade 2 runner-up.