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A 5-year-old mare, Dea Matrona has been claimed in her last three races, all at a mile on turf, and starts for the first time for trainer Peter Eurton in an allowance race for fillies and mares at 1 1/4 miles on grass Friday at Santa Anita. How she handles the longer trip will be of particular interest to bettors on a day when the $2 pick six begins with a carryover of $54,223.
Round 2 comes around two turns, not one, and the connections of Deterministic hope that he can reverse the one-two finish Sept. 12 in the Woodbine Mile.
Despite rather impressive credentials, Built, like the majority of the others expected to contest the Sprint, finds himself taking a back seat in the lead-up to the race behind the freakishly fast 3-year-old Englishman and Japanese invader T O Elvis.
There will be a few anxious days early next week for owners Len and Jon Green and trainer Mark Casse, the connections of Juvenile Turf hopeful Canada, before Breeders' Cup officials announce the pre-entries on Wednesday.
Ka Ying Rising won his 14th consecutive start, and first race away from Hong Kong, in the Group 1 Everest Stakes at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia, last October. Ka Ying Rising's winning streak stands at 21 races in advance of his second start in Australia in Saturday's $13.9 million Everest Stakes at six furlongs.
While most contenders in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies have done the traditional work to prepare for the $2 million race, Crazy Hot Mess is taking a somewhat unconventional path. After finishing second in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante for Peter Miller last month, she made an early move from California to Kentucky to begin working with new trainer Ray Bryner, who also co-owns the 2-year-old.
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A recently released pre-season poll has the University of Kentucky men's basketball team, coached by Mark Pope, ranked seventh of 16 teams in the highly competitive Southeastern Conference. The 2-year-old colt Coach Pope, named for the UK hoops coach, figures to garner more support among horseplayers in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile to be run Oct. 30 at Keeneland.
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Mansetti, last year's King's Plate winner, will try to end his slump in Friday's featured conditioned allowance over seven furlongs at Woodbine.
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Tyler Davis' Salty Beaches ($2.80, Montrell Teague) was a four length winner in the $110,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) 2-year-old pacing final Tuesday at Harrington Raceway in 1:56 3/5.
