ELMONT, N.Y. – Led by top turf runners Flintshire and Lady Eli and dual Grade 1 dirt winner Practical Joke, trainer Chad Brown said he pre-entered 12 horses on Monday for the Breeders’ Cup races Nov. 4-5 at Santa Anita.
If all 12 get to run, it will equal the number of starters Brown had last year, when he won the Filly and Mare Sprint with Wavell Avenue and the Filly and Mare Turf with Stephanie’s Kitten. Wavell Avenue is among Brown’s pre-entrants this year in the Filly and Mare Sprint.
ARCADIA, Calif.- Union Strike will have a gap of nine weeks between starts when she runs in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita on Nov. 5.
Owner Mick Ruis insists the break is not an issue. Union Strike will be ready, he said.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Keen Ice did enough in a six-furlong workout Sunday morning at Belmont Park to convince his connections to pre-enter the 2015 Travers winner in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 5 at Santa Anita.
Keen Ice, who has only one start in seven months, went six furlongs in 1:12.84, working in company with Tommy Macho. Keen Ice, with Javier Castellano up, went his opening three furlongs in 37.08 seconds and his last three-eighths in 35.76. He galloped out seven furlongs in 1:26.20 and a mile in 1:39.80.
ARCADIA, Calif.- Found, the winner of the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Chantilly Racecourse in France earlier this month, will be pre-entered for the BC Turf and BC Classic at Santa Anita, trainer Aidan O’Brien said on Sunday.
Both races will be run on Nov. 5. Pre-entries are due on Monday and will be announced on Wednesday.
Pre-entries for the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita on Nov. 4 and 5 will be taken Monday, and after the oversubscribed races are dealt with on Tuesday, the pre-entries will be released to all on Wednesday.
I find two aspects to the Breeders’ Cup pre-entry process to be especially interesting. One is the work of the Breeders’ Cup Racing Directors/Secretaries Panel, which determines which horses are relegated to the also-eligible list in oversubscribed races. The other is the concept of cross-entering horses in two different Breeders’ Cup events.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Action toward the Breeders’ Cup two weeks hence picked up noticeably Saturday morning in Southern California, with California Chrome tuning up at Los Alamitos for the $6 million Classic on Nov. 5 while a pair of his potential challengers – Melatonin and Hoppertunity – were among those recording workouts here later in the morning at Santa Anita.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Paulassilverlining, the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom winner, will make her next start in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Santa Anita, owner Vincent Scuderi said Friday.
“I want to take a shot,” Scuderi said “She earned it winning that last stake. If she didn’t win that last stake, I probably wouldn’t have gone. But she showed me something there – she’s rateable.”
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ELMONT, N.Y. – Mind Your Biscuits keeps giving signals that he could be a live longshot in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.
Six days after working a solid five furlongs, Mind Your Biscuits worked a strong half-mile in 47.17 seconds Friday over the Belmont Park main track.
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Three Rules, working for the first time since completing a one-sided sweep of the Florida Sire Stakes, breezed an effortless five furlongs in 1:00.08 shortly after the renovation break Friday morning at Gulfstream Park.
Three Rules is scheduled to run in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Nov. 5 at Santa Anita
