2024 BREEDERS CUP news and notes

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Report: Stronghold will race in Dirt Mile at Breeders’ Cup
https://www.horseracingnation.com/news/ ... rs_Cup_123


NEXT to the Classic or Turf?
https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/c ... list-next/

[tachyon]

Some Early Ballydoyle Breeders' Cup Contenders have been revealed

https://x.com/aobrienfansite/status/1838140517365801110

Note - More horses will be added the closer we get to the event this is not a complete team

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30 Industry "experts" weigh in on the Classic.

First place vote getters include:

Fierceness 16
City of Troy 9
Forever Young 2
Dornach 1
Ushba Tesoro 1
Derma Sotogaken 1

https://www.horseracingnation.com/news/ ... c_poll_123

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30 Industry "experts" weigh in on the Classic.

First place vote getters include:

Fierceness 16
City of Troy 9
Forever Young 2
Dornach 1
Ushba Tesoro 1
Derma Sotogaken 1

https://www.horseracingnation.com/news/ ... c_poll_123

It's such a fool errand expecting people to have viable opinions right now. I also would love to see the names of these "experts" but even knowledgeable people wouldn't be in a particularly fair spot.

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30 Industry "experts" weigh in on the Classic.

First place vote getters include:

Fierceness 16
City of Troy 9
Forever Young 2
Dornach 1
Ushba Tesoro 1
Derma Sotogaken 1

https://www.horseracingnation.com/news/ ... c_poll_123

It's such a fool errand expecting people to have viable opinions right now. I also would love to see the names of these "experts" but even knowledgeable people wouldn't be in a particularly fair spot.

and this on a somewhat related note......November 22 is just around the corner when you'll be able to wager on the 2025 Kentucky Derby!

Everybody does it, either with real money or the internet kind.

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Kind of insane that Sierra Leone isn't in the top 10. He's a pretty big player.

Maybe it's good that people have run from his bandwagon. That usually spells victory.

[Tessablue]

I was going to say that it’s crazy to ask someone to pick a BC winner months in advance before even seeing the field, but then I remembered that Cogburn exists.

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Breeders’ Cup Classic candidate Forever Young, who has not raced since he finished a close third in the Kentucky Derby, reportedly developed a high temperature during a workout Wednesday morning in Japan. That did not keep his trainer from saying the 3-year-old colt will ready for a final prep race next week.

Yoshito Yahagi told Umatoku, a Japan racing website, that the colt’s getting warm could be excused with the 90-degree weather that greeted workers at the Ritto training center just outside Osaka.

“We’ll do a short workout Sunday, but we’ll do a stronger one with the intention of it being his final workout,” Yahagi said. “He had a fever in the middle of (Wednesday’s work), which delayed him, but that can’t be helped with this heat. He’s finally coming along, and I think he’s in good shape.”

Forever Young, a Real Steel colt owned by Susumu Fujita, worked in company with 4-year-old Libyan Glass. His jockey Ryusei Sakai kept a tight rein, according to Umatoku, and was clocked at 1:21.4 for the six-furlong work on wood chips, going the last eighth of a mile in 11.5 seconds.

[HB1994]

Kind of insane that Sierra Leone isn't in the top 10. He's a pretty big player.

Maybe it's good that people have run from his bandwagon. That usually spells victory.

I’m gonna laugh my ass off if SL wins the BCC instead of City of Troy.

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Kind of insane that Sierra Leone isn't in the top 10. He's a pretty big player.

Maybe it's good that people have run from his bandwagon. That usually spells victory.

Sierra is actually #4, just no first place votes.

1 Fierceness 16 267 1st
2 City Of Troy 9 236 2nd
3 Forever Young 2 180 3rd
4 Sierra Leone 142
5 Dornoch 1 135
6 Highland Falls 127
7 Ushba Tesoro 1 100
8 Arthur’s Ride 82
9 Derma Sotogake 76
10 Señor Buscador

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DORNACH retired due to bone bruise

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2YO fillies hoping for a win and you're in victory in New York's Miss Grillo stakes today probably not too happy with the one week cancellation/delay today.

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@KeibaKate
https://x.com/KeibaKate/status/1841428932194939220

19 Japanese horses have been booked for the Breeders Cup!!!

[Palace Malice]

@KeibaKate
https://x.com/KeibaKate/status/1841428932194939220

19 Japanese horses have been booked for the Breeders Cup!!!

Let's go!!

[Izvestia]

Kind of insane that Sierra Leone isn't in the top 10. He's a pretty big player.

Maybe it's good that people have run from his bandwagon. That usually spells victory.

Shhhhh!!!

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@KeibaKate
https://x.com/KeibaKate/status/1841428932194939220

19 Japanese horses have been booked for the Breeders Cup!!!

Thanks for that news.

That's a lot of press, photographers, and money coming into California!
Enjoy.

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@KeibaKate
https://x.com/KeibaKate/status/1841428932194939220

19 Japanese horses have been booked for the Breeders Cup!!!

can't see Twitter, can anyone list the horses for me??

[Flanders]

@KeibaKate
https://x.com/KeibaKate/status/1841428932194939220

19 Japanese horses have been booked for the Breeders Cup!!!

can't see Twitter, can anyone list the horses for me??

I'll send you the pic in a PM.

[Northport]

Call me greedy but I would love for Shin Emperor to win the Arc, then a couple Japanese horses to win at the BC.

[CoronadosQuest]

I forgot all about T O Saint Denis... has he raced since the Alysheba?