Breaking News is a chestnut gelding who was sired by The Talk of the Town and out of the mare Reedann's Cascade.

Breaking News was trained by Peter Cowart of West Wind Stables in Statesville, North Carolina.

In July 2008 Cowart entered him in the Lexington Junior League Horse Show, where he won the five-gaited stake.

In November he won the five-gaited stake in the American Royal Horse Show, making him a Saddlebred Triple Crown winner; a horse who wins the American Royal, Lexington Junior League, and World's Championship Horse Shows' five-gaited stake classes in the same calendar year.

At the 2009 Saddlebred Ball, held in February, Breaking News was named the Horse of the Year.