ARCADIA, Calif. – All good, babe. That was the vibe emanating from trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. after he watched Breeders’ Cup Classic contender White Abarrio work a strong five furlongs in 59.68 seconds Friday morning over Santa Anita’s main track under jockey Emily Ellingwood. Daily Racing Form’s Mike Welsch caught his final quarter in 23.00 while galloping out six furlongs in 1:13.26 and seven furlongs in 1:28.53. “He looked good to me and he felt good to her,” Dutrow said. “I think anybody that watched him breeze would say that he looked good to them.” This was White Abarrio’s fifth work since arriving in Southern California in mid-September. The work was postponed from Monday after Breeders’ Cup veterinarians would not let White Abarrio work. Part-owner Mark Cornett explained that White Abarrio’s feet were pinching him due to his foot growing out while equipped with glue-on shoes. Monday, Ian McKinlay, a noted farrier, flew in to put a larger glue-on shoe on him. White Abarrio walked on Tuesday and jogged and galloped on Wednesday and Thursday leading to Friday’s breeze. “I’ve seen all his works, this is the best work he’s ever had,” Cornett said. Ellingwood, who has worked White Abarrio several times since he’s been out here, said she asked him to do more Friday than in his previous moves. :: Get Breeders' Cup Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the DRF Clocker Team when you purchase a BC VIP Package! “The other works we went easy with him and let him do his thing. Today I did ask him when we were approaching the quarter pole. I wanted to let him know its game on from here on out,” Ellingwood said. “I asked him to open up down the lane. He did what I wanted him to. I could have asked for more but I didn’t want to go too fast. We were flying home.” After the work, White Abarrio jogged back past the grandstand with a ton of energy. “He’s got energy out the ass,” Dutrow said. “A couple of times when we breeze him, the way he’s been galloping out past the wire I’ve never seen anything like him. She doesn’t ask him, he just keeps going. I hope that’s an indication that he won’t have any problem with the distance. It’s certainly showing us that it shouldn’t be a problem the way he’s been training.” Added Ellingwood: “He seemed like he wanted to do a bit more on the gallop-out. I was trying to pull him up, and he didn’t really want to. I think he would have gone another lap if I let him.” White Abarrio is sort of an accidental Classic entrant. After his third-place finish in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap in June, White Abarrio was being pointed to the Grade 1 Forego at Saratoga. But when told the field for the Grade 1 Whitney was coming up with so few horses, the decision was made was to run in that race at 1 1/8 miles. When White Abarrio went on to win the Whitney by 6 1/4 lengths, his path to the Classic was set. “We took a calculated risk,” Dutrow said. “We didn’t feel like we were jumping through hoops to get there. We felt like he belonged. :: DRF Breeders' Cup Packages on sale now! Get everything you need to win and save up to 32% off the retail price.  “He just happened to like that track that much and was sitting on a race. Who knows why, where it came from, who cares? And he has amped it up since then. He’s doing unbelievable as far as what we know.” While all was good in the White Abarrio camp, trainer Richard Mandella postponed a scheduled seven-furlong workout Friday for Geaux Rocket Ride, the Grade 1 Haskell winner. Mandella said Geaux Rocket Ride received new shoes Thursday and was a “a little tender this morning warming up, so we called it off. We’re going to work tomorrow.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.