

Medina Spirit, controversial winner of the Kentucky Derby, and Belmont Stakes winner Essential Quality head a field of 10 horses for the Breeders’ Cup Classic. John Minchillo/AP Show More Show Less 3 of4 FILE - Essential Quality (2), Luis Saez up, crosses the finish line to win the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, Saturday, June 5, 2021, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. The Breeders' Cup is allowing Baffert, currently embroiled in legal fights in New York and Kentucky for multiple positive drug tests involving some of his horses, to enter horses (he has eight total), but he has to meet certain conditions, including stricter out-of-competition testing of his horses and greater security at his barn. Jeff Roberson/AP Show More Show Less 2 of4 FILE - Horse trainer Bob Baffert, left, leaves federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, July 12, 2021.

1 of4 FILE - John Velazquez rides Medina Spirit across the finish line to win the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., Saturday, May 1, 2021.
