ELMONT, N.Y. – Capla Temptress, the winner of the Grade 1 Natalma on Sept. 17, worked five furlongs in 1:01.82 over the Belmont turf course on Sunday in preparation for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Nov. 3 at Del Mar.
In her work, her second since being transferred to Bill Mott from Marco Botti, Capla Temptress started two lengths behind Lemoona, a maiden 2-year-old filly, and finished one length back at the wire.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Rubilinda, who held on to win Saturday’s $200,000 Pebbles Stakes by a nose over Party Boat, is likely to make her next start in the Grade 1, $300,000 Matriarch Stakes at Del Mar on Nov. 26, trainer Chad Brown said Sunday.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Chad Brown likely will pre-enter 14 horses in the Breeders’ Cup series at Del Mar on Nov. 3-4, the reigning Eclipse Award-winning trainer said Sunday.
Pre-entries are not due until Oct. 23 and won’t be announced until two days later. But with all the major prep races completed, and following several workouts over the weekend, Brown has pretty much solidified his lineup.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Finest City, the champion female sprinter of 2016, and West Coast, who has emerged as the dominant 3-year-old male this year, worked at Santa Anita on Sunday in advance of scheduled starts in Breeders’ Cup races at Del Mar on Nov. 4.
Both worked six furlongs in 1:12, which tied for the fastest times among 13 recorded works at the distance. Finest City and West Coast did not work together.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Run Away, the winner of three sprint stakes for 2-year-olds in Southern California this year, is a candidate for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar on Nov. 4, trainer Simon Callaghan said Sunday.
The BC Juvenile is run at 1 1/16 miles and would be Run Away’s first start around two turns.
“I think he deserves a shot,” Callaghan said. “We haven’t totally made up our minds.”
ARCADIA, Calif. – An impressive five-furlong team work by Abel Tasman on Sunday morning at Santa Anita reestablished the Kentucky Oaks winner as a major player for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.
Abel Tasman did it the right way Sunday. She broke off about five lengths behind a workmate, relaxed comfortably, and blew past her rival inside the furlong pole. Abel Tasman was timed in 1:00.40. More importantly, she did it professionally.
“That was good,” trainer Bob Baffert said moments after the 9 a.m. workout. “She sat behind that horse.”
ELMONT N.Y. – Mo Town, one of the major disappointments of the 3-year-old division on dirt this year, may have found a new home on the turf.
In his first start on turf, Mo Town rolled to a 6 1/2-length allowance win Thursday at Belmont Park. It was his first victory since he won the Grade 2 Remsen at Aqueduct last November. Off the Remsen, Mo Town was among the early favorites for the Kentucky Derby. But disappointing efforts in the Risen Star at Fair Grounds and the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct took him off the Derby trail.
Joking, last year’s Grade 1 Vosburgh winner, returned to the work tab for the first time in 50 weeks Friday, breezing three furlongs in 38.89 seconds over the Belmont Park training track.
It was Joking’s first breeze since last Oct. 27 at Belmont when he was preparing for a start in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita. Joking got sick when he arrived in Southern California and had to scratch from the Sprint. He later developed pneumonia and got so sick that he nearly died.
MIAMI – The first horses scheduled to compete on the Clasico Internacional del Caribe program Dec. 9 at Gulfstream Park have arrived in Florida. Two of the three, Arquitecto and Jade Master, are stabled at Palm Meadows, while the third, Deland, is in Ocala.
All three were shipped to trainer Alexis Cordero-Lopez.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Friday was another busy morning for Breeders’ Cup candidates at Santa Anita. For the next two weeks, it will stay that way.
Indications are that most California-based trainers are likely to stay at Santa Anita for final workouts by Breeders’ Cup candidates and ship late to Del Mar for Breeders’ Cup races on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 3-4.
“They’ll get a chance to gallop over the [Del Mar] track Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday” during Breeders’ Cup week, trainer Peter Eurton said Friday after Champagne Room worked a bullet half-mile at Santa Anita.
