7:50 PM ET ESPN News Services Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, who rode three Kentucky Derby winners and made nearly 30,000 career starts, is retiring from racing. Stevens told The Daily Racing Form that his decision had to do with his long-term health — a C4 vertebra is pressing up against his spinal cord.

6:32 PM ET Mitchell Lamb SATURDAY’S BEST Rosehill Race 5 No.7 Just Dreaming (Rachel King) – $3.50 She’s been a beaten favourite at both her starts this time in, but I think Saturday is the day Just Dreaming pays dividends for her followers. The Newcastle mare has always been one of mine, but I personally

5:56 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Exercise rider Odanis “Cuba” Acuna died in a training accident at Churchill Downs when his horse broke down with catastrophic injuries, the track announced Saturday. The 42-year-old rider for trainer Kenny McPeek was breezing unraced 2-year-old New York Harbor when the horse fell about a sixteenth of

7:04 PM ET Mitchell Lamb SATURDAY’S BEST Flemington Race 3 No.6 Ringerdingding (John Allen) – $4 Pretty certain no one missed the run of Ringerdingding at Moonee Valley on the biased track that was dished up on Cox Plate Day. He was one of the few runners to make up significant ground during the entire

5:33 PM ET ESPN staff Hugh Bowman has been hit with a month-long suspension following his ride on second-placed Marmelo in the Melbourne Cup. Bowman pleaded guilty to a careless riding charge, a charge of using the whip too many times before the last 100 metres and to weighing in one kilogram over his allotted

11:36 PM ET ESPN staff Kerrin McEvoy claimed a third Melbourne Cup on Tuesday afternoon as Cross Counter charged down the Flemington straight to win Australia’s great race. Cross Counter ran down Marmelo over the final 200 metres to claim victory with Prince of Arran third. Finche completed the first four. McEvoy timed Cross Counter’s

6:39 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Accelerate took the lead at the top of the stretch and held off Gunnevera to win the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic by a length Saturday, strengthening his bid for Horse of the Year over Triple Crown winner Justify. The race lacked the retired Justify and left

3:50 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Game Winner’s latest triumph included bumps along the way. The colt shook them off before shaking the field to remain perfect and make his case as the year’s best 2-year-old. Game Winner overcame an early bump to surge down the stretch, then pulled away from long shot

8:00 PM ET LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It was getting late in the day, and trainer John Sadler’s 0-for-43 record at the Breeders’ Cup was starting to loom large. Expert Eye had run down Catapult to nose him out in the stretch of the Breeders’ Cup Mile. Favored Catalina Cruiser didn’t show up in the Dirt

7:54 PM ET Mitchell Lamb DERBY DAY BEST Flemington Race 5 No.2 Zousain (James McDonald) – $3.80 His father won it, his Father’s Father won it, even his Father’s Father’s Father won it, and now I expect Zousain to keep up the family tradition and win the Coolmore Stud Stakes and finally get the Group