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Almendares may run in Breeders' Cup Mile
Trainer Phil D’Amato said on Sunday that he rates Almendares as a candidate for the BC Mile at Del Mar on Nov. 1.
Steve AndersenOct 01, 2025
Trainer Phil D’Amato said on Sunday that he rates Almendares as a candidate for the BC Mile at Del Mar on Nov. 1.
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Velocity, the winner of the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks in August, recently was diagnosed with an ankle injury that will force her retirement. She is scheduled to be offered at auction at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale in Kentucky on Nov. 3.
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Not only is the 42nd Breeders' Cup being held for the second straight year at Del Mar, just outside San Diego, Calif., but five horses who won Breeders' Cup races in 2024 are expected back to try and repeat in their respective divisions.
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The morning-line favorite, World Record, never has won a stakes race against older rivals. Second-choice Nakatomi hasn't won a race of any kind in 15 months. The field's only graded stakes winners this year, Durante and Watchatalkinabout, sit, respectively, at 15-1 and 6-1 on the line. A grand total of just six were entered, and you'd say Friday's Grade 2, $400,000 Phoenix Stakes at Keeneland came up soft – but for the fact the entire North American dirt-sprint division, this year and last, came up soft.
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Choose Joy, the onetime undisputed leader of the local filly and mare turf sprint division, will try to work her way back to the top again Friday at Gulfstream Park in the featured $58,000 allowance.
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The Grade 2, $400,000 Jessamine Stakes on opening day at Keeneland offers an automatic berth into the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Oct. 31 at Del Mar. The race is not only a chance for 2-year-old fillies to step up on the turf – the majority entered do not yet have stakes experience – but for some trainers to continue pursuing career milestones, as well.
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One cost $140,000 as a yearling at Keeneland in 2022, the other $75,000 at the same auction a year later. With those bargain buys, cousins George Messina and Mike Lee had acquired two fillies in Stellify and Fionn who this fall rate among the best American chances for the $2 million Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf on Nov. 1 at Del Mar.
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Forever Young romped to an easy win in Wednesday’s $457,700 Nippon TV Hai Stakes at Funabashi Racecourse in Tokyo, Japan, a prep race for the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar on Nov. 1.
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She races with her head turned slightly to the right, but two races into her career, all the 2-year-old filly Tommy Jo has done is turn heads. And if, as her trainer strongly believes will be the case, Tommy Jo transfers her one-turn form around two turns, she will allow you to turn $2 into about $2.40 in the Alcibiades Stakes on Friday, opening day at Keeneland.
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Since its addition to the Breeders' Cup program in 2008, the Turf Sprint has been a race where fillies and mares regularly take on males, with good results.