Here are the top 5 horse racing stories of 2022

Flightline is 6 for 6 with four Grade I victories and a combined winning margin of 71 lengths. He won the Breeders’ Cup Classic by 8¼ lengths at Keeneland in November. The topper for the John Sadler-trained son of Tapit was his Pacific Classic victory.

Cody's Wish is the horse racing story of 2022. He was born with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome and uses a wheelchair. His biggest win of the year came in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile.

Rich Strike won the Kentucky Derby at 80-1. It was the second-biggest upset in the history of the race. He almost didn't get to run because Ethereal Road was scratched. Before the year was out, Rich Strike finished a respectable fourth in Travers and second in Lukas Classic Stakes.

Del Mar put on its best summer meet ever. There were no catastrophic injuries during live racing for the fourth consecutive year. The total attendance of 278,702 was a 16.1% increase over last summer.

Baffert is appealing the ruling that overturned his horse's Kentucky Derby victory. He was suspended from the Santa Anita and Los Alamitos tracks for 90 days. Baffer is ineligible to run a horse in next spring's Derby. The trainer had a good start to the year at Santa Monica's Classic Meet, sending out five winners on one card.