Triple Crown winning jockey Victor Espinoza shares a laugh before the Breeders’ Cup Classic horse race post position draw at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., Monday, October 26, 2015.
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A feature on American Pharoah’s connections, including how they plan to bounce back from his tough loss at the Travers Stakes.
Numerically the Euro numbers are down on last year’s 38 at Santa Anita, but the 28 that remain next weekend include three individual UK Classic champions and a host of other Group One winners.
Nyquist drew post position 13 Monday in a field of 14 for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.
Counted among the nationally prominent trainers represented at Keeneland this fall were Todd Pletcher, Graham Motion, Mark Casse, Kenny McPeek, Dale Romans, Doug O’Neill, Bill Mott, Larry Jones, Wesley Ward and Kiaran McLaughlin. The trio teamed with I’ll Have Another to win the 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness.
The Breeders’ Cup meeting will signal the start of a hectic 48 hours for Dettori because he will ride Max Dynamite in search of his first Melbourne Cup win on Tuesday. That colt’s Triple Crown bid derailed when he was retired the day before the Belmont because of an injury.
She attempts to become the only mare outside of Zenyatta (2009) to win the Classic and the first horse in history to win three different races in different years. She’s been replaced by John Velazquez, who is 1 for 6 with the 4-year-old filly since the Distaff a year ago. O’Neill’s other horse is 12-1 shot Ralis, also owned by Reddam. The Pioneerof the Nile colt drew post 4 and was installed as the 6-5 morning-line favorite.
Specifically, Behr was talking about the pace of traffic into The Village Idiot, which is located in the Breeders’ Cup Festival Zone, the downtown cluster of blocked-off streets that will allow visitors to party safely in an auto-free zone. Kent Desormeaux will ride Exaggerator for his brother.
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In the $1 million Turf Sprint on Saturday, Undrafted is the 4-1 favorite owned by former Patriots receiver Wes Welker. Turf star (four Grade 1 wins) trying dirt for the first time. Toss in defending champ Untapable and multiple Grade 1 winners Curalina and Stopchargingmaria, and the result is a wide-open race in which as many as seven or eight horses have a legitimate shot.
