There has been little Japanese participation in the Breeders’ Cup over the years, just four starters in all, the last two being Casino Drive, 12th and last in the 2008 Classic at Santa Anita won by Raven's Pass, and Personal Rush, who finished sixth of 13 as a 25-1 shot in the Classic won by Ghostzapper in 2004 at Lone Star Park. But Japan will be well represented this year with a horse who is unquestionably that country’s best runner sent here thus far for the Breeders’ Cup, Espoir City.
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Four times Paco Boy has squared off against two-time Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Goldikova, and four times the filly has beaten him, but Paco Boy will try one final time to beat the mighty mare. Paco Boy’s trainer, Richard Hannon, confirmed the horse as an intended BC Mile starter this week, with the Mile to be the final race of Paco Boy’s career.
If trainer Charles Lopresti still had even an inkling of a notion of running his Grade 1 winner Here Comes Ben in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint as opposed to his first choice, the Dirt Mile, it ended late last Friday afternoon, immediately after his up-and-coming 3-year-old Wise Dan upset Keeneland’s Grade 3 Phoenix.
“I think we’re going in the Sprint with him,” Lopresti said of Wise Dan on Tuesday. “He came out of that race really good. He didn’t really act like he ran at all. It’s pretty scary. He was awesome.”
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Calvin Borel will ride the Grade 1 winner Tell a Kelly in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5, trainer John Sadler said on Monday.
Borel will ride Tell a Kelly for the first time in the Juvenile Fillies, which is run over 1 1/16 miles and plays a major role in the determination of the champion 2-year-old filly.
“He’s the man at Churchill Downs,” Sadler said. “She’s pretty easy to ride.”
A $40,000 claimer in August, Quick Enough has proven good enough in recent starts to go to the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 6 following his victory in Monday's $100,000 Morvich Handicap at Hollywood Park.
Quick Enough had an ideal trip in the Grade 3 Morvich over six furlongs on turf, stalking pacesetter Lt. Hopeful to early stretch and outfinishing Dilemma to win by 1 1/2 lengths. The Morvich was part of the Breeders' Cup Win and You're In program, assuring an automatic berth to the winner for the BC Turf Sprint, subject to the payment of entry fees.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Philip Lebherz was in the winner’s circle after Smiling Tiger’s win in the Ancient Title Stakes at Hollywood Park last Saturday when he yelled two words that summed up the colt’s accomplishments in the last 75 days. "Breeders’ Cup!" Lebherz shouted to no one in particular. Everyone within earshot range knew what he meant.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Jim Cassidy would like to run Evening Jewel in the Breeders’ Cup, but first things first. The veteran California trainer will be at Keeneland on Saturday to run the standout filly in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, and “if she runs big in there, then we can start looking at our options,” Cassidy said.
The Breeders’ Cup has launched an app for the iPhone that can direct users to the nearest simulcast site and serve as a portal to the Breeders’ Cup website, where live streaming videos and news and information about the Breeders’ Cup year-end event are available.
Behkabad will aim for the Breeders’ Cup Turf on Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs, where he could have a chance to avenge his loss to Workforce in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. The Aga Khan’s racing manager, Georges Rimaud, announced on Tuesday that the Turf is the intended target for Behkabad, the Arc’s unlucky fourth-place finisher.