A Southern Hemisphere 3-year-old, Warwoven began the current Australian season in August as a Group 3 sprint winner. Four races into the season, Warwoven has won his last three starts, including two Group 1 races. He is the early favorite in Saturday’s Group 1 Cox Plate at about 1 1/4 miles at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne.
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The Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint was always going to require cuts, and after 26 horses pre-entered the race earlier this week, the merciless process began. With five horses earning a Win and You're In berth and another two qualifying on points, 19 horses were left to scrap over the seven remaining spots in the main field.
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Despite the imposing presence of Englishman and T O Elvis, the $2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint on Oct. 31 at Keeneland will likely feature a full field of 14 starters for the second year in a row, with 19 horses having been pre-entered for the race.
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Ways and Means is likely to face a dozen rivals and will be heavily favored to give her trainer Chad Brown a record fourth victory in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Oct. 31 at Keeneland.
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With one notable exception, the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint at Keeneland on Oct. 30 is dominated by European-based runners.The always-popular race drew 28 pre-entries, the Breeders' Cup announced on Wednesday.
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Led by eight returning winners from a year ago, two Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winners, and a foreign line-up that numbers 75 strong, a total of 222 horses were pre-entered for the 14 Breeders' Cup races worth $30 million in purse money to be held Oct. 30-31 at Keeneland.
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No surprise on the pre-entry list could have possibly supplanted Nitrogen as a heavy favorite in this year's Breeders' Cup Distaff, making it all the more reasonable that no surprise came Wednesday.
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Breeders' Cup races typically offer horses a chance to do what they do best at the highest level. This year's Filly and Mare Turf falls into a different category.
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Something about the Breeders' Cup Mile loves recurrence. Five times a Mile winner has returned to win the race a second time. On seven other occasions, though, a first-time Mile winner failed in a repeat bid. Notable Speech will fall into one of those two camps Oct. 31 at Keeneland.
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Emphatic, the winner of the Grade 1 Alcibiades last month, led a group of 13 pre-entered in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies on Wednesday. A small army of improving contenders seem willing to challenge the Brendan Walsh trainee, but she remains the two-turn specialist with a clear head start.
