ELMONT, N.Y. – One of the key questions surrounding Code of Honor and his chances in the Breeders’ Cup Classic is how well he bounces back off what was a hard race in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, where he was beaten a nose by Vino Rosso, but was elevated to first following the disqualification of Vino Rosso for interference.
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ARCADIA, Calif. - Pee Wee Reese was nominated to the $100,000 California Flag Handicap on Oct. 19 at Santa Anita, but trainer Phil D’Amato confirmed Saturday the veteran stakes winner would skip that Cal-bred race and target the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 2.
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ARCADIA, Calif. – A busy morning for John Sadler-trained Breeders’ Cup candidates continued Saturday at 7:50 a.m., when Distaff-bound Ollie’s Candy worked a sharp half-mile at Santa Anita under exercise rider and assistant trainer Juan Leyva. Sadler earlier worked Higher Power (Classic) and Catalina Cruiser (Dirt Mile or Sprint).
Ollie’s Candy worked by herself in 47.20 seconds, a snappy drill that was her first since a better-than-looked third behind Paradise Woods and Secret Spice in the Grade 1 Zenyatta Stakes on Sept. 29.
Sat, 10/12/2019 - 12:10
ARCADIA, Calif. – The plan that trainer John Sadler had leading up to the Breeders’ Cup Classic worked so well with Accelerate last year that he’s doing the same with Higher Power, who had the first of his three works in preparation for the $6 million Classic on Saturday morning at Santa Anita.
Higher Power turned in his drill only moments after Catalina Cruiser, also trained by Sadler, worked as well for the Breeders’ Cup, though his race of choice is still to be determined.
Fri, 10/11/2019 - 18:47
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Oleksandra won the Franklin County Stakes in such rousing fashion Friday at Keeneland that her ownership partners in Team Valor International now face a difficult decision in regard to whether to run the mare back in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint.
“If you look at it from an intellectual point of view, the answer would be ‘no,’ ” Team Valor president Barry Irwin said after Oleksandra blew past the other two favorites in the 23rd running of the Grade 3, $150,000 Franklin County. “But when emotion gets involved, and a horse wins like this, anything is possible.”
Quadrilateral won her stakes debut in Friday’s Group 1 Fillies Mile at Newmarket, England to become the future-book favorite for the Group 1 English 1000 Guineas at the same track in May.
Ridden by Jason Watson, his first Group 1 race, Quadrilateral rallied through the final quarter-mile to win by a head as the 9-4 favorite, edging 7-1 Powerful Breeze. Love, the winner of the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes in Ireland on Sept. 15, finished third, beaten 1 1/2 lengths in the field of nine.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Catholic Boy was supplemented to Monday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Knickerbocker Stakes – a 1 1/8-mile turf race – at Belmont Park, a race his connections hope to use as a springboard to a Breeders’ Cup race in three weeks.
ARCADIA, Calif. – American Theorem and Storm the Court, second and third to Eight Rings in the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes here on Sept. 27, remain on schedule for a start in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita on Nov. 1 after each worked five furlongs on Friday.
American Theorem was timed in 1:01.60, working in company with a stablemate. The exercise began slower than trainer George Papaprodromou would have preferred, but American Theorem finished well under jockey Tiago Pereira, who did not strongly urge his mount.
MIAMI – Trainer Amador Sanchez and jockey Hector Berrios came to the U.S. from their native Chile to try to make a name for themselves in this country. They will have accomplished that in relatively short time if they can pull off the upset with the undefeated Graceful Kitten in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 1.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Todd Pletcher figures to have five horses for this year’s Breeders Cup, topped by Jockey Club Gold Cup first-place finisher Vino Rosso, who is targeting the $6 million Classic.
Vino Rosso finished a nose in front of Code of Honor in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, but was disqualified to second for bumping him in the final furlong.
Other BC horses for Pletcher are Sweet Melania (Juvenile Fillies Turf), Freewheeler (Juvenile Turf Sprint), Coal Front (Dirt Mile), and Channel Cat (Turf).