Last Updated: October 26, 2023, 01:30 IST
ARCADIA, Calif.: Kentucky Derby winner Mage and Belmont Stakes winner Arcangelo head a full discipline of 14 horses for the wide-open Breeders’ Cup Classic, with coach Todd Pletcher pre-entering two for the $6 million race that features horses from the barns of Bob Baffert and Rick Dutrow.
The Classic discipline was among the many 205 horses, together with 59 from abroad, pre-entered Wednesday for the over $31 million, 14-race world championships on Nov. 3-4 at Santa Anita. The observe is internet hosting for a document eleventh time on the occasion’s fortieth anniversary.
Baffert has gained the Classic gained 4 occasions — all with 3-year-olds. Baffert will saddle Pacific Classic winner Arabian Knight on his dwelling observe at Santa Anita.
Dutrow has Whitney winner White Abarrio, his first Breeders’ Cup runner since 2010. He gained the 2005 Classic with Saint Liam. He regained his coach’s license in February, having served a 10-year suspension after being charged with quite a few treatment and administrative violations.
After profitable the Kentucky Derby, Mage completed third within the Preakness, second within the Haskell and seventh within the Travers. He hasn’t raced in over two months.
Arcangelo comes into the Classic on a 10-week layoff since his Travers victory. He took a nine-week break between the Belmont and Travers underneath Jena Antonucci, the primary girl coach to win a Triple Crown race and the Travers.
“It’s just how he’s always been,” Antonucci mentioned. “Even when we were developing him, we always spaced out his training and racing.”
Pletcher’s two entries are Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Bright Future and Charge It within the 1 1/4-mile Classic to be run Nov. 4 dwell on NBC. The Classic has implications for Horse of the Year honors, with 16 of its winners having gone on to declare the year-end honor.
Three of Baffert’s pre-entries — Muth, Prince of Monaco and Wine Me Up — are within the $2 million Juvenile, whose winner is tabbed because the early favourite for the following 12 months’s Kentucky Derby. Pletcher additionally has a trio of entries: Fierceness, Locked and Noted.
However, Baffert has been banned from the Derby in 2024, the results of Churchill Downs Inc. extending its unique two-year suspension for an additional 12 months. The firm mentioned Baffert has continued “to peddle a false narrative concerning the failed drug test of Medina Spirit.” The horse completed first within the 2021 Derby, however had the victory stripped after testing constructive for a substance that’s banned on race day. Baffert has denied drugging the horse whereas asserting {that a} topical therapy might have triggered the constructive check.
Others pre-entered within the $6 million Classic are: Charge It, UAE Derby winner Derma Sotogake of Japan, Geaux Rocket Ride, King of Steel, Proxy, Pennsylvania Derby winner Saudi Crown, Senor Buscador, Ushba Tesoro of Japan and Zandon.
Irish coach Aidan O’Brien will search his seventh victory within the $4 million Turf. He has three pre-entries: Epsom and Irish Derby winner Auguste Rodin, Boishoi Ballet and Broome. O’Brien’s 25-year-old son, Donnacha, has Piz Badile within the race.
Another O’Brien son, Joseph, has Lumiere Rock within the $2 million Filly & Mare Turf.
Four Breeders’ Cup champions are again to defend their titles: Caravel within the Turf Sprint, Cody’s Wish within the Dirt Mile, Elite Power within the Sprint, and Goodnight Olive within the Filly & Mare Sprint.
Final entries and the post-position draw are Monday.
The world championships will open with 5 races for 2-year-olds in what’s billed as Future Stars Friday on Nov. 3, adopted by 9 races on Nov. 4.
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