ARCADIA, Calif. – Bob Baffert already has Arrogate, Collected, and West Coast on his list of potential starters for the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 4 at Del Mar, and he’ll be looking to add to that roster Saturday at Santa Anita when he sends out both Cupid and Mubtaahij in the Awesome Again Stakes, the last of five Grade 1, $300,000 races on the blockbuster, 11-race card.
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ARCADIA, Calif. – Moonshine Memories arrived at Del Mar in mid-July as an unraced prospect. She left unbeaten in two starts and the leader of the California 2-year-old filly division.
“When we took her to Del Mar, we were planning a maiden at the end of the meet,” trainer Simon Callaghan said. “It’s amazing how far she’s come, really.”
Post time for the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 4 at Del Mar near San Diego will be 5:35 p.m. Pacific, or 8:35 p.m. Eastern, the Breeders’ Cup announced on Wednesday.
The announcement included all of the post times for the 13 Breeders’ Cup races on Nov. 3-4, while leaving out the specific race order. The exceptions were the Classic, the last race on the card on Saturday, and the Distaff, the second-to-last race on the Friday card. The Distaff is scheduled for 4:35 p.m. Pacific.
Trainer Mick Ruis believes Bolt d’Oro will have no trouble stretching out around two turns. Saturday, the horse will offer his opinion.
Bolt d’Oro, the leader of the 2-year-old male division with two wins sprinting at Del Mar this summer, tries two turns and 1 1/16 miles for the first time in Saturday’s Grade 1, $300,000 FrontRunner Stakes at Santa Anita. The FrontRunner, which drew a field of nine, offers an automatic berth into the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Nov. 4 at Del Mar. The FrontRunner and the Juvenile are both run at 1 1/16 miles.
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Four fillies and mares from the United States and abroad – Dacita, Ashiana, Hydrangea, and Birdie Gold – have earned expense-paid berths for the Nov. 4 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar with triumphs in designated Breeders’ Cup Challenge races. Another pair will join those qualifiers after this weekend following Saturday’s Grade 1 Rodeo Drive at Santa Anita and Sunday’s Group 1 Prix de l’Opera at Chantilly in France.
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So much remains up in the air regarding the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, but one thing seems settled: James Garfield will be making the trip from England with a solid chance for second-year trainer George Scott.
One trainer, when recently asked if his Breeders’ Cup hopeful would be pointed to the Sprint or the Dirt Mile, said he’d chosen the Dirt Mile, adding that one reason was because he didn’t think he could beat “that freak” in the Sprint.
When asked if he was referring to the defending Sprint champion Drefong, he politely replied, “No, I’m talking about Imperial Hint.”
On the surface, it looks like Time Test has failed every test to prove himself a true top-class horse. In races other than Grade 1’s or Group 1’s, he has six wins from nine tries, but in starts at the highest level he is 0 for 5.
Maybe it’s still not time to give up on Time Test winning a major race. Chad Brown, who trains the 5-year-old for Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, isn’t ready.
“He trains like a horse that you just feel has that Grade 1 in him,” Brown said. “I think he can win a big one. Hopefully, the conditions are right this fall that he can accomplish that.”