It was 20 years ago Brazilian native Paulo Lobo began training in North America. He’s gotten two horses – Farda Amiga in the 2002 Distaff and Ivar in the 2020 Mile – into the Breeders’ Cup, but Nov. 6 at Del Mar, Lobo will have two live chances in a single Breeders’ Cup race. Ivar, fourth in the Mile last year, will be at Del Mar for a second shot at the race, and Lobo also saddles In Love, who earned guaranteed fees-paid entry into the Mile when he upset the Grade 1, $700,000 Keeneland Turf Mile on Saturday. Ivar, who won the same race in 2020 when it was called the Shadwell Turf Mile, finished a respectable fourth behind In Love while racing for the first time since May and making only his second start since the 2020 Mile. “I still love the horse,” Lobo said of Ivar. The two horses have the same owners, Bonne Chance Farm and Stud R D I, and both are 5-year-old Brazilian-breds by Agnes Gold who began their racing careers in Argentina. Ivar, an entire horse, came to the U.S. a more proven graded-stakes performer than In Love, a gelding who had only a maiden win from five starts when he joined Lobo’s stable in 2020. “They really liked the horse [in Argentina] but he had some issues and they gelded him over there,” Lobo said. When the owners decided to send Argentine stakes-horse Imperador, who won the $1 million Calumet Turf Cup last month at Kentucky Downs, they added In Love “to see what could happen over here.” In Love looked like an allowance-class horse until this summer, when Lobo added blinkers after In Love eked out a July 25 Arlington win as the odds-on favorite. “He just kind of stopped and waited for a horse,” Lobo said. :: BREEDERS’ CUP 2021: See DRF’s special section with top contenders, odds, comments, news, and more for each division Alex Achard rode In Love for the first time at Arlington and was aboard when In Love won the restricted TVG Stakes at Kentucky Downs, which was In Love’s career high point until he hit another level in the Keeneland Turf Mile, where Achard rode a perfect race. “Achard and him, they team up very good,” said Lobo. Achard will keep the mount on In Love at Del Mar, said Lobo, who rightfully expects improvement from Ivar in the Mile. A multiple Group 1 winner in Argentina, Ivar got a long break after his BC Mile victory. He returned to action May 1, finishing a close sixth in the Grade 1 Turf Classic at Churchill, but then required another break until July with what Lobo said was a minor physical issue. At Keeneland under Joe Talamo, who rides him in the Mile, Ivar raced too keenly in the early stages, took a bump at the eighth pole that Lobo thinks cost his horse second, and tired slightly in deep stretch, beaten two lengths by his victorious stablemate. “He kind of needed the race,” said Lobo. “Since he came back in July, he has not lost one day of training and he’s very solid after the last race. He came back very bright, eating everything. Let’s hope I can get some races in a row with him now.” Lobo, who is based at the Thoroughbred Training Center in Lexington, as of now plans to work both horses on the two Saturdays before the Mile. They ship from Kentucky on Nov. 1. Tell Your Daddy, Somelikeithotbrown, and Space Traveller, who were respectively second, third, and fifth in the Keeneland Mile, all have the qualifying points to get into the BC Mile and ran well enough Saturday to merit a spot in the field. Overseas The Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on Saturday at Ascot in England caps the divisional action leading up to the Mile and features the first matchup between Palace Pier and the undefeated 3-year-old Baaeed. Neither horse has been officially ruled out of the BC Mile but trainer John Gosden termed Palace Pier “very unlikely.” :: Bet the races with confidence on DRF Bets. You're one click away from the only top-rated betting platform fully integrated with exclusive data, analytics, and expert picks. Two other horses still in the QE II entries as of Wednesday, Master of The Seas and Mother Earth, remain possible Mile starters. Aidan O’Brien, who trains Mother Earth, said both she and Order of Australia, who ran well below his recent form finishing last as the favorite in the Keeneland Mile, could be entered in the Mile. Charlie Appleby and Godolphin, Master of The Seas’s connections, have Prix de la Foret winner Space Blues aimed at the BC Mile. Poetic Flare, whose suitability to firm turf made him look like a natural fit for the Mile, has been retired, it was announced this week. The connections of the filly Pearls Galore, who was second to Space Blues in the Foret, want to run in the Mile, but Pearls Galore has no qualifying points toward making the field and risks being excluded if the Mile overfills.