ARCADIA, Calif. – For a year, Bobby’s Kitten has been a source of lingering frustration for trainer Chad Brown, the memories of a third-place finish in the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita proving difficult to forget.
The aggravation is over. Bobby Kitten’s more than redeemed himself with an electrifying win in Saturday’s $920,000 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita.
“It took a full year to get over it,” Brown said.
ARCADIA, Calif. – With a devastating turn of foot, Texas Red turned Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile into a family affair and created more havoc in the 2-year-old division.
Last for more than a half-mile, Texas Red launched a bid 3 1/2 furlongs out, split horses with a five-wide move, and powered home a convincing 6 1/2-length winner of the Juvenile at Santa Anita. Kent Desormeaux, the Hall of Fame jockey, rode the horse for his older brother, Keith, the trainer and part-owner of the colt.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Judy the Beauty held off longshot Better Lucky to continue a huge weekend for trainer Wesley Ward when posting a narrow victory Saturday in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Santa Anita.
With Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith aboard, Judy the Beauty needed every bit of the perfect trip she got when finishing a head before Better Lucky in the seven-furlong race.
ARCADIA, Calif. – At any distance and on almost every surface, speed is dangerous.
Dayatthespa proved it again Saturday at Santa Anita in a race that might have been the final start of her career. For sure, the 1 1/4-mile Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf was the longest of her career. And Dayatthespa stole it.
ARCADIA, Calif. – It won’t quite make up for losing last year’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic by a nose with Will Take Charge, but those same connections experienced quite a thrill Saturday when Take Charge Brandi upset the $2 million Juvenile Fillies at 61-1 at Santa Anita.
ARCADIA, Calif. – The 12-race Breeders’ Cup card at Santa Anita began Saturday under a caution flag of sorts: two of the three lead-in races originally scheduled for turf were transferred to the main track because of overnight rain, leading to scratch-laden fields for both.
The Saturday opener became the misnomered Juvenile Turf Sprint, with Ocho Ocho Ocho easily prevailing in a field of seven 2-year-olds by finishing 6 1/2 furlongs in a swift 1:14.57 over a main track rated good.
Ocho Ocho Ocho, a Kentucky-bred colt by Street Sense, returned $3.60 to win.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Lady Eli, dominant winner of Friday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita, came out of her race in good shape and will get a vacation in south Florida before preparing for her 3-year-old campaign, trainer Chad Brown said Saturday.
“She looked good this morning, ate up everything," Brown said. "Cold and tight everywhere. Really pleased with her this morning."
Brown said that Lady Eli would be shipped to Palm Meadows, a training center in south Florida, early this week.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Calculator was scratched on Saturday morning from the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, with trainer Peter Miller reporting he has a sore foot.
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Calculator finished second most recently in the FrontRunner Stakes to American Pharoah, who would have been the favorite in the Juvenile before he had to be withdrawn this week with a leg injury.
The strategy for Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Ultra Pick Six with a $2.5 million-guaranteed pool is pretty simple: Survive and advance through the first four legs, and get to a pair of imposing favorites at the end – Toronado (#5) in the Mile, and Shared Belief (#6) in the Classic.
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To get there, this is the plan:
