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XBTV Introduces 2021 Breeders’ Cup Video Portal

1/ST TECHNOLOGY's XBTV, horse racing's premier online destination for video workouts, has unveiled its 2021 Breeders' Cup Portal to provide handicappers, horsemen and racing fans with free access to exclusive videos in advance of this year's Breeders' Cup World Championships on Nov. 5 and 6, 2021 at Del Mar.

As horse racing's most comprehensive library of horse racing workouts, XBTV will be on-site at Santa Anita Park, Del Mar Racetrack and Belmont Park through the Breeders' Cup to ensure that viewers can watch as key contenders prepare for horse racing's year-end event. Additionally, the XBTV team will interview top jockeys, trainers and owners as they ready their horses to race at Del Mar.

XBTV's Portal is already loaded with dozens of recent workout videos from top contenders, including:

Gamine
Dr. Schivel
Domestic Spending
Ce Ce
Max Player
Gufo

Plus, XBTV's revolutionary Side-by-Side Bullet Drills compare a contender's most recent work with another relevant previous workout to gauge how that horse has maintained its form and fitness throughout the year.

To visit XBTV's Breeders' Cup Portal, please visit https://www.xbtv.com/breeders-cup/.

In order to watch videos on XBTV, a free 1/ST account is required. 1/ST is the leading name in horse racing, and, in addition to XBTV's free video library, a 1/ST account gives customers access to online betting with 1/ST BET and Xpressbet, as well as BETMIX handicapping software.

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Knicks Go On Top Of NTRA Poll For 11th Consecutive Week

Korea Racing Stable's 5-year-old horse Knicks Go, the likely morning line favorite for the Grade 1, $6 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic on Nov. 6 at Del Mar, retained his top ranking for the eleventh consecutive week in the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll with 23 first place votes and 339 points.

St. George Stable's 5-year-old mare Letruska remained in second place in the poll with six first place votes and 312 points. Trained by Fausto Gutierrez, Letruska is a leading contender for the Grade 1, $2 million Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff.

Godolphin's 3-year-old standout colt Essential Quality, who like Knicks Go is trained by 2020 Eclipse Award-winning trainer Brad Cox, remained in third place in this week's poll with seven first place votes and 299 points. Essential Quality also is being pointed for the Breeders' Cup Classic.

Kirk and Judy Robison's Jackie's Warrior, a leading contender for the Grade 1, $2,000,000 Qatar Racing Breeders' Cup Sprint, moved up one spot to fourth-place in this week's poll with 158 points. Roadrunner Racing, William Strauss, Boat Racing and Gainesway Stable's Hot Rod Charlie, another leading Classic contender, fell one spot to fifth-place in this week's poll with 149 points.

Michael Lund Petersen's Gamine, who is being pointed for the Grade 1, $1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, moved up one spot to sixth in the poll with 129 points. Zedan Racing Stable's Breeders' Cup Classic hopeful, Medina Spirit (125 points), dropped one spot to seventh-place. There were no other changes in this week's rankings with Bruce Lunsford's Art Collector (95 points), George Hall's Max Player (83 points) and Klaravich Stable's Domestic Spending (68 points) rounding out the top 10.

Click here for this week's complete poll results.

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Letter to the Editor: Cynthia McGinnes

For the sake of being entirely accurate, which would help members of the press and public who aren't close followers of racing, I think it is important to clarify that Bob Baffert's positive tests have all been for overages of permitted medications not for banned substances.

I think it is an important point to make, as it is not the same as what Jason Servis was using. Also, the positive test for Gamine in the Oaks was within the rules–she received the Beta Vet 18 days before the race, which had a 14-day suggested withdrawal time. Gamine did not clear the medication within that withdrawal time, which happens occasionally.

Finally, perhaps not everyone knows that the Arkansas Racing Commission vacated the disqualifications for Gamine and Charlatan, restoring the purse money, because of problems with the testing. Several other horses that day turned up positive for lidocaine. Baffert and several other trainers, I believe, paid fines as absolute insurers, but there were no further penalties because of problems with the testing.

For the six months after Gamine's Oaks, which was an explainable violation, Baffert had no further positives until the Derby, where the tests are still ongoing as to which beta variant tested positive.

Actually, if the first Saturday in May hadn't been the first day of the month, it would not have been five in one year. Since May 1 there have been no further positives, making it basically one in the last year.

I feel as if the media has used incomplete information to blacken racing's reputation, and hope you feel the same way. I believe that it was the fungus cream that tested, as Baffert knew from Gamine's experience not to trust a withdrawal time for Beta Vet, and he certainly knew it would test. Medina Spirit' s performance was not enhanced in any way. The Derby winner was not doped!

I do hope as one of the most-read and -trusted publications that you can help to get the difference between banned substances and overages of permitted medications

made clear to the general public and media. Racing doesn't deserve this black eye.

Yours truly,

Cynthia McGinnes

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Sconsin Eyes BC Trip Following Open Mind

Lloyd Madison Farms IV LLC's homebred filly Sconsin (Include) is on track for a second straight appearance in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint following her tough, half-length defeat of Bell's the One (Majesticperfection) in Saturday's Open Mind S. on the Downs After Dark program at Churchill.

A pace-compromised fourth, just a half-length behind Bell's the One, in last year's Filly & Mare Sprint at Keeneland, Sconsin was winning for the second time in six starts this term, having taken the course-and-distance GIII Winning Colors S. by 3 1/4 lengths in May. Runner-up to Bell's the One as the favorite in the June 19 Roxelana S. beneath the Twin Spires, Sconsin was exiting a fourth to 'TDN Rising Star' and divisional leader Gamine (Into Mischief) in the GI Ballerina H. at Saratoga Aug. 28. Sconsin was second to Gamine in the GI Derby City Distaff on Kentucky Derby day May 1.

“She's just a classy filly,” trainer Greg Foley told the Churchill notes team. “[Trainer] Neil's mare is a really solid horse and they really battled last night. You get a little worried when the field is short about what the pace will be. They went quick last night and that helped us. In her two starts this year against Gamine they went almost two seconds slower for the opening quarter-mile.”

About 30 of Foley's friends and family were in the winner's circle Saturday night, but his son Travis was occupied with a bachelor party ahead of his Oct. 2 wedding.

“We would've loved to be there but we definitely had a good celebration after she won,” Travis Foley said.

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