This Day in History: 2003-10-25

Trainer Richard Mandella set a single-day record winning four Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships races at Santa Anita. Mandella saddled Halfbridled (Juvenile Fillies); Action This Day (Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile); Johar (John Deere Breeders’ Cup Turf); and Pleasantly Perfect (Breeders’ Cup Classic, Powered by Dodge). The Johar dead heat with High Chaparral in the Turf marked the first dead heat in Breeders’ Cup history. And in guiding Halfbridled to victory, jockey Julie Krone became the first woman to ride the winner of a Breeders’ Cup flat race.