VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Russell Baze guided Class Included to an impressive win over Evelyn’s Dancer in the Grade 3, $100,000 Ballerina at Hastings on Monday. She paid $3.20 as the clear choice over Evelyn’s Dancer in the 1 1/8-mile race for fillies and mares.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Chad Brown’s Breeders’ Cup contingent keeps getting larger.
About 90 minutes after Noble Tune earned his way into the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, Watsdachances earned a spot in the $1 million Juvenile Fillies Turf with a 2 1/4-length victory in Monday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Miss Grillo Stakes at Belmont Park.
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ELMONT, N.Y – Trainer Chad Brown will bring a strong hand to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf next month at Santa Anita.
One day after Balance the Books earned his way into the race by winning the Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland, Noble Tune punched his ticket to the $1 million Juvenile Turf with a visually impressive 2 1/2-length score in Monday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Pilgrim Stakes at Belmont Park.
ELMONT, N.Y. – The undefeated Shanghai Bobby, winner of the Grade 1 Champagne on Saturday at Belmont Park, will make his next start in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita on Nov. 3, his connections said Monday.
Shanghai Bobby earned a fees-paid berth into the Juvenile by virtue of his five-length victory in the Champagne – a Win and You’re In race – but afterward his connections were somewhat reluctant to commit to the race.
STICKNEY, Ill. – It took Pool Play about 26 seconds to run his final quarter-mile in the Hawthorne Gold Cup on Saturday. But that was fast enough. And Pool Play’s sustained bid that won the Grade 2, $500,000 race, which was run over a deep, exhausting racing surface, might have landed him a berth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
The eighth and final Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In race at this 17-day fall meet will be run Thursday, when a full field of 2-year-old fillies goes postward in the Grade 3, $150,000 Jessamine Stakes.
Kitten’s Point, Oscar Party, and Always Kitten look like the top contenders among the 13 fillies in the 1 1/16-mile Jessamine, including one also-eligible. The winner gets an expenses-paid trip to the Nov. 2 BC Juvenile Fillies Turf.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Forte dei Marmi and Kissable, both trained here by Roger Attfield, breezed five furlongs in company on the main turf course here Monday morning in preparation for Canadian International Day engagements on Sunday.
Forte de Marmi’s target is the $1.5 million Canadian International, a 1 1/2-mile race for 3-year-olds and up, while Kissable is heading to the $1 million E.P. Taylor, a 1 1/4-mile race for fillies and mares.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – It’s not all that often that expectations are exceeded the way that Wise Dan and Groupie Doll did in their victories on the opening FallStars Weekend at Keeneland.
But both were spectacular in capturing their respective races as heavy favorites Saturday, pretty much clinching favoritism in their upcoming races in the Nov. 2-3 Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – River Seven was a maiden coming into last Sunday’s $224,800 Grey Stakes, in which the undefeated Uncaptured was a heavy favorite. But when the dust cleared following the running of the Grey and a claim of foul by Uncaptured’s rider, Patrick Husbands, it was River Seven in the winner’s circle and the favorite ending 4 1/4 lengths back in fifth.
River Seven, an Ontario-foaled gelding, turned the tables on the Kentucky-bred Tesseron, who had left him a half-length back in second place in a mile and 70-yard maiden race here Sept. 3.
