The list of pre-entries for the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland on Oct. 31 was hours from being officially announced on Wednesday when the European Group 1 winner Postponed was withdrawn from consideration. Postponed, the winner of the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot in July, had a workout in Newmarket, England, on Wednesday but did not scope well afterward.
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Although the country’s top female is not expected to run in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff, she will not be missed. Beholder was cross-entered in the Distaff but is likely to start a day later in the $5 million BC Classic, pending recovery from a minor fever.
A total of 16 fillies and mares were pre-entered in the Distaff, which is limited to 14 starters. The 1 1/8-mile Distaff is the top race on Friday, Oct. 30, at Keeneland. The three BC races preceding the Distaff are the Juvenile Turf, Dirt Mile, and Juvenile Fillies Turf.
Led by the likes of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, two-time champion Beholder, and Arc de Triomphe winner Golden Horn, 200 individual horses were announced on Wednesday as pre-entries for the 13 Breeders’ Cup races that will be held Oct. 30-31 at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.
Trainer Richard Mandella expressed continued optimism that champion Beholder's elevated temperature a day after arriving in Kentucky was due to shipping stress and that there is not a more serious problem precluding her competition in next week’s Breeders' Cup Classic.
The mare was to walk the shed row on Wednesday morning while having additional blood work and lung scans done. Assuming those come back clean, Mandella would then devise a training schedule for the mare’s final Classic preparations.
ARCADIA, Calif. – With Triple Crown winner American Pharoah coming into the Breeders’ Cup Classic off a two-month layoff, having to race 1 1/4 miles, and facing elders for the first time, trainer Bob Baffert cranked up the intensity of his last two works, including a brilliant six-furlong drill on Tuesday morning at Santa Anita that was officially timed in 1:10.80.
“He did it the right way,” Baffert said. “He’s going to have to run hard. The Breeders’ Cup will be pedal to the metal from the gate.”
A lung scan on Beholder was “pristine,” trainer Richard Mandella said Tuesday afternoon, giving him hope that the minor temperature she spiked Tuesday morning at Keeneland was merely caused by shipping the prior day from California.
Still, Mandella emphasized that he would leave “no stone unturned” in making sure nothing more serious is amiss with Beholder. At this point, though, the hope is that this is a minor hiccup.
KEENELAND
Track: Fast
Weather: Clear
Temp.: 45
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A slow day on the Breeders’ Cup workout watch Tuesday at Keeneland, with only three prospective starters breezing during the morning, all after the break over the main track.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – With a couple of exceptions, it was Maintenance Monday at Keeneland, and the majority of the Breeders’ Cup hopefuls who worked during the morning were not asked to do much more than stretch their legs while simply bridging the gap between their previous starts and their ultimate goals, now less than two weeks away.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Barclay Tagg said he pre-entered two horses Monday in the Breeders’ Cup, but both of them, Tale of S’avall (Juvenile) and Highland Sky (Juvenile Turf), were on the bubble to get into their races.
That pair worked five furlongs in company Monday morning, with Tale of S’avall going in 1:00.40 and Highland Sky in 1:01.40.