FOREVER YOUNG CLOSING IN ON ROMANTIC WARRIOR'S ALL-TIME PRIZE-MONEY EARNINGS RECORD
By Graham Potter | Saturday, September 19, 2026
The mighty Forever Young has romped home to an untroubled victory in the US$1-million Group 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup over 2000m on dirt over dirt at New York’s Belmont Park.
No other result was ever expected as only three other runners took up the daunting option of taking on the Japanese superstar and the 3.25 length margin of victory aptly summed up the ease with which the Yoshito Yahagi trained runner was able to dominate proceedings.
This win was Forever Young’s twelfth win from sixteen starts and it took his career earnings to US$32.3 million as he pushes towards the massive all-time prize-money earnings record of US$36.8million raked in by the recently retired Romantic Warrior.
The Gold Cup win, which was also Forever Young’s fifth Group 1 win, carried a confirmed ‘win and you are in’ entry status into the Breeders’ Cup Classic to be held at Lexington’s Keeneland Racecourse on October 31.
With the 2025 Japanese Racehorse Of The Year cruising though this lead-up run to the Breeders’ Cup Classic, Forever Young appears to be right on track to give a spirited defence of his Breeders’ Cup Classic crown, having taken out the 2025 edition of the event at Del Mar racetrack in California where he became the first Japanese horse to win the $7 million feature race.
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