ARCADIA, Calif. – Senor Buscador will be a longshot in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, but if he gets some pace in front of him, he could very well be a live longshot.
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Idiomatic, early favorite for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, is scheduled to breeze Saturday at Churchill Downs before shipping to California early next week, trained Brad Cox confirmed Thursday. Cox also pre-entered Grade 1 winners A Mo Reay and Wet Paint in the Distaff.
Bradsell, winner of the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot in June, will have a change of riders for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 4 at Santa Anita.
Regular rider Hollie Doyle will miss the race while serving a seven-day suspension for causing interference in a race earlier this month at Kempton Park, near London.
Luke Morris has been named as a replacement, according to reports in the British media.
Go With Gusto was cross-entered for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita earlier this week and is being pointed to the grass race, provided she can gain a berth.
Trainer Mark Casse said Thursday that the $1 million BC Juvenile Fillies Turf at a mile has greater appeal than the $2 million Juvenile Fillies at 1 1/16 miles on dirt with Go With Gusto. Both races will be run Nov. 3.
“I want to run her on the turf,” he said. “I know we put her in the dirt. It’s highly unlikely we’ll run” on dirt.
Trademark raced too close to the leaders in the Lukas Classic, while Happy American was too far away from them. From different positions, both horses are capable of winning the Grade 2, $350,000 Fayette Stakes, featured race Saturday on closing day of Keeneland’s fall meet.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Although it is still a week until the Breeders’ Cup, repercussions from an ungraded stakes race Saturday at Santa Anita will continue through next weekend.
Astronomer enters the Lure Stakes as a key participant, but he might scratch from the turf mile. A Grade 2-placed gelding, Astronomer is pre-entered in the BC Mile. Trainer Simon Callaghan prefers taking a shot at $2 million rather than the $80,000 purse of the Lure.
“Our preference is to go for the Breeders’ Cup, but it’s still a little bit up on the air which direction we go,” Callaghan said.
Chasing a slow pace doomed Soho’s chance in the Grade 3 Surfer Girl Stakes at Santa Anita on Oct. 8.
“It wasn’t the race we were looking for,” trainer John Sadler said. “They didn’t come back. We kind of wrote it off.”
The fifth-place finish ended any plans of a start in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 3. Instead, Soho has an excellent chance for her first stakes win in Saturday’s $75,000 Pike Place Dancer Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at a mile on turf at Golden Gate Fields.
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ARCADIA, Calif. – Though Johannes Brahms has the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf listed as his first preference, his trainer, Aidan O’Brien, said he has not ruled out running him on dirt in the $2 million Juvenile instead.
Johannes Brahms, a son of Siyouni, has one win and two seconds from four starts, all sprinting on turf in Great Britain.
Randomized may have emerged as trainer Chad Brown’s top 3-year-old dirt filly, but Occult, based on her last two performances, is moving up the depth chart.
While Randomized, the Grade 1 Alabama winner, is pointing to next weekend’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Santa Anita, Occult looms the horse to beat in Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Mother Goose Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Aqueduct.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Junior Hot Shot goes directly from his dazzling debut to Saturday’s $100,000 Frost King Stakes at Woodbine and should be well-backed in the 6 1/2-furlong sprint for Ontario-sired 2-year-olds.
Trained by John Ross, Junior Hot Shot was all the rage at first asking in a 6 1/2-furlong maiden race for Ontario-sired and $40,000 stock Oct. 1. Bet down to 9-5 favoritism, he went straight to the front and widened his lead throughout to win by 6 1/2 lengths under Justin Stein. His time of 1:15.81 translated into a 77 Beyer Speed Figure.