BETTORS WILL HAVE A FIELD DAY.Breeders' Cup week's most often quoted statistic will be rendered invalid, the heaviest favorite of the afternoon will be beaten, and the nation's top-ranked thoroughbred will be upset. Other than that, I have no strong opinions about today's races at Gulfstream Park. The 16th Breeders' Cup is unpopular with the sort of fans who go to the races to watch great horses record still-greater accomplishments. There are no Personal Ensigns, Miesques, Alyshebas, Sunday Silences or Cigars in the eight races today. But this edition of racing's biggest day is a potential delight for bettors. It promises that firm and accurate opinions will be rewarded at substantial odds. Where else but Breeders' Cup races as contentious as these would you find 6-1 morning-line odds on the winner of the world's richest race and 50-1 on the holder of the course record at the precise distance of his race today? Distaff, 1 1/8 miles: 1. Silverbulletday; 2. Beautiful Pleasure; 3. Keeper Hill. Long shot: Heritage of Gold. Silverbulletday ran near the rail, seemingly the worst part of the sloppy Belmont Park track, when Beautiful Pleasure scampered away from her last time out. Give the great 3-year-old filly the benefit of the doubt for that one. Banshee banshee female specter, harbinger of death. [Irish and Welsh Myth.: Walsh Classical, 45] See : Death banshee spirit with one nostril, a large projecting front tooth, and webbed feet. Breeze (4-1 on the morning line) is said to be training poorly. Juvenile Fillies, 1 1/16 miles: 1. Surfside surf·side adj. Situated or sited at or near the seashore: surfside parties; a surfside road. ; 2. Darling My Darling; 3. Chilukki. Long shot: Cash Run. Kentucky Derby experience taught me to trust knowledgeable horsemen when they doubt a young horse's stamina pedigree, and those guys don't like undefeated Chilukki, the 8-5 favorite trying 1 1/16 miles. The top two ran heads apart through the stretch in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . D. Wayne Lukas Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935 in Antigo, Wisconsin) is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. (Surfside, Cash Run), who plans to affix affix v. 1) to attach something to real estate in a permanent way, including planting trees and shrubs, constructing a building, or adding to existing improvements. nasal strips to his horses, got more circumstantial evidence circumstantial evidence In law, evidence that is drawn not from direct observation of a fact at issue but from events or circumstances that surround it. If a witness arrives at a crime scene seconds after hearing a gunshot to find someone standing over a corpse and holding a of the breathing aids' effectiveness Friday when Bobby Frankel-trained Bouccaneer won the Fraise Stakes at 7-1 while wearing one. Mile, on grass: 1. Jim and Tonic Jim And Tonic (foaled 1994 in Normandy) is a French Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse and the richest racehorse in the history of horse racing in France. Bred at Francois and Elizabeth Doumen's Haras d'Ecouves horse breeding farm in Alencon, Jim and Tonic was sired by ; 2. Silic; 3. Hawksley Hill. Long shot: Docksider. Gulfstream's morning-line maker was more confused than anyone by the wide-open race that opens the $5 million pick-six. He made Brave Act the favorite off a moderately troubled third behind the sharp Silic in their Santa Anita prep. Jim and Tonic appears to have the fewest negatives in terms of running style and footing preference among the higher-rated horses. The waterlogged wa·ter·logged adj. 1. Nautical Heavy and sluggish in the water because of flooding, as in the hold: a waterlogged ship. 2. turf is expected to rate no worse than ``good.'' Sprint, 6 furlongs: 1. Kona Gold; 2. Big Jag; 3. Forestry. Long shot: Stravinsky. Kona Gold, freshened before a perfect prep at Santa Anita, has shown he can withstand pressure if he gets the early lead or apply it if he doesn't. How about Belmont Park record setter Artax? Breeders' Cup Sprint The Breeders' Cup Sprint is an American Weight for Age Grade I Thoroughbred horse race for three year olds & up. Run on dirt over a distance of 6 Furlongs (3/4 mile), the race has been held annually since 1984 at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the favorites who prepped in the New York area are 2 for 11. Filly and Mare Turf, 1 3/8 miles on grass: 1. Soaring Softly; 2. Coretta; 3. Zomaradah. Long shot: Insight. The outside post position is less of a problem for Soaring Softly (Jerry Bailey) than for Coretta (Jose Santos). The top pick can drop in behind the leaders; the second pick could get parked outside them. Juvenile, 1 1/16 miles: 1. Forest Camp; 2. Dixie Union; 3. Chief Seattle. Long shot: Brahms. Forest Camp, brilliant in the Del Mar Futurity The Del Mar Futurity is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. Beginning in the racing season of 2007, this race has been upgraded by the American Graded Stakes Committee from a Grade II event to a Grade I. , pulled David Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the to the lead too fast at Santa Anita and was beaten by the more professional Dixie Union. With the benefit of that experience Forest Camp is the better colt. Turf, 1 1/2 miles on grass: 1. Daylami; 2. Royal Anthem; 3. Val's Prince. Long shot: Unite's Big Red. Yes, Europe-prepped horses are winless in 28 starts in Florida Breeders' Cups. But consider a French 93-1 shot ran third and a French mutuel-field horse fourth in the 1989 Mile; French horses ran a close 2-3-4 to Prized at 25-1, 51-1 and 7-2 odds in the 1989 Turf; and a 3-year-old French filly (Jolypha) was third as part of a 15-1 entry in the 1992 Classic. Hardly evidence of underachievement. Unite's Big Red, at 50-1 the longest shot on the Breeders' Cup morning line, set the Gulfstream record (2:23) for this distance in March. Classic, 1 1/4 miles: 1. Almutawakel; 2. General Challenge; 3. Behrens. Long shot: Ecton Park. Maybe everybody's picking against Behrens just because we can't believe this is the Horse of the Year front-runner. Talented but none-too-game General Challenge could win by five lengths but probably not by a nose. Almutawakel won the Dubai World Cup The Dubai World Cup is a Thoroughbred horse race held annually since 1996 at the Nad Al Sheba Racecourse in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The race is operated through the Emirates Horse Racing Authority (EHRA) whose Chairman is Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in March, making him the rare Classic runner who's proven at the class, and at 6-1 would be worth a shot. BREEDERS' CUP AT A GLANCE The event: Thoroughbred racing's championship day, featuring eight stakes races, with purses totaling $13 million, for different genders, ages and specialties. Schedule: $2 million Distaff, approximate post time 10:10 a.m. PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there ; $1 million Juvenile Fillies, 10:43; $1 million Mile, 11:20; $1 million Sprint, 11:53; $1 million Filly and Mare Turf, 12:24 p.m.; $1 million Juvenile, 12:57; $2 million Turf, 1:30; $4 million Classic, 2:10. Weather forecast: Mostly cloudy, 81 degrees for high, 59 percent humidity, gusty gust·y adj. gust·i·er, gust·i·est 1. Blowing in or marked by gusts: a gusty storm. 2. Characterized by sudden outbursts. wind. TV: Coverage starts at 10 a.m. on Channel 4. Betting: Santa Anita and its satellites are taking Breeders' Cup wagers. Santa Anita gates open at 7:30 a.m.; first live race is at 9:15; two live races before and five live races after the Breeders' Cup are scheduled. CAPTION(S): box BOX: Breeders' Cup at a glance (see text) |
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