ARCADIA, Calif. – The gang’s all here! Well, almost.
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DRF Past Performances
ARCADIA, Calif. – Four leading contenders for Saturday’s $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf – Big Blue Kitten, Point of Entry, Real Solution, and The Fugue – had their first morning of exercise at Santa Anita on Tuesday.
The Fugue, trained in England by John Gosden, cleared quarantine Monday. On Tuesday, she jogged a mile on the main track, according to Les Reynolds, an assistant to Gosden. A 4-year-old filly, The Fugue is expected to be favored in the BC Turf on the strength of her win in the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes against males in September.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Relegated to the also-eligible list for Friday's Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, Easter Gift did not ship to California from New York on Tuesday. Trainer Chad Brown said Easter Gift likely will be pointed to the Clark Handicap on Nov. 29 at Churchill Downs.
“I’d like to run that horse two turns,” Brown said.
ARCADIA, Calif. – While the post position draw for the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday at Santa Anita turned out well for Game On Dude, the placing of Moreno vis-à-vis the other potential speed in the race left trainer Eric Guillot believing his options had been compromised.
Moreno ended up in post 4 when posts were drawn Monday afternoon, with Fort Larned, last year’s Classic winner, in post 7, and Game On Dude, the morning-line favorite, in post 9. Those three have the most natural speed of the 12 runners in the 1 1/4-mile Classic.
Rise Up is the early favorite for the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot for 2-year-olds after dominating the Vinton, La., track’s prep for the race, the $200,000 Jean Lafitte, last Saturday. Trainer Tom Amoss said Rise Up, who shipped in from Churchill Downs, is now based at Fair Grounds in New Orleans. The 1 1/16-mile Jackpot will be run Nov. 23.
Allen Aldrich thought he’d hit the horse racing heights when he saddled Steel Blue to win the Humboldt County Marathon in 2011. On Saturday, Aldrich will truly hit the big time as part-owner of She’s a Tiger, a contender in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita.
Aldrich, who maintains his trainer’s license, owns 25 percent of She’s a Tiger thanks to the insistence of old friend Jeff Bonde, who trains the filly.
The two went to high school together in Pleasanton, Calif., and their grandmothers were best friends.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Defending champion Mizdirection drew favorably in post 12 when starting gates were assigned Monday for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, to be run Saturday at Santa Anita.
Mizdirection is one of two females facing male rivals in a full field of 14 entered in the Turf Sprint, which is run downhill at 6 1/2 furlongs. The other, Reneesgotzip, was assigned post 4 as she also returns to the Turf Sprint after finishing third last year behind Mizdirection and Unbridled’s Note, the latter of whom got post 14 for Saturday’s race.
ARCADIA, Calif. – A two-turn, one-mile race on a seven-furlong turf course like Santa Anita’s should, in theory, put outside-drawn horses at a serious disadvantage. But the 13 such Breeders’ Cup races run here don’t supply a great deal of evidence supporting that notion.
Among the 52 horses who secured top-4 finishes in those races, 17 broke from post 8 or wider, and six horses who won or placed broke from post 9 or wider. Two horses won from post 12, three from post 10.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Top contenders Havana and Strong Mandate drew posts 13 and 14 for Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, further muddling an already-difficult handicapping puzzle.
Meanwhile, the inexperienced but very exciting debut winner Tap It Rich drew nicely in post 6 several hours after he put in his final workout for the Juvenile at Santa Anita.
The Juvenile is run at 1 1/16 miles, and at Santa Anita, there is a short run from the gate to the first turn.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Buff Bradley was elated with Groupie Doll being assigned post 11 when a field of 12 was entered Monday for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Saturday at Santa Anita.
“Perfect,” said Bradley, who will be saddling Groupie Doll for the last time before the 5-year-old mare is sold at auction Nov. 6 at Keeneland. “We’d much rather be outside than anywhere.”