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Baffert Trio Draws Outside, Tiz The Law Inside For 2020 Breeders’ Cup Classic

A total of 184 horses were entered in the 2020 edition of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, scheduled for Nov. 6-7 at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., including 37 international contenders.

The $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic headlines the event, with a high-powered field of 10 ready to face off over 1 1/4 miles. Trainer Bob Baffert's strong trio will break from the three outside posts: Awesome Again winner Improbable from gate eight (5-2 favorite), Kentucky Derby winner Authentic from gate nine (6-1), and Pacific Classic winner Maximum Security from gate ten (7-2).

Meanwhile, Belmont and Travers Stakes winner Tiz the Law will be nearer to the rail in post two. Trained by Barclay Tagg, the 3-year-old son of Constitution was made the second choice on the morning line at 3-1.

Last year's G1 Clark winner Tom's d'Etat will break from post four at odds of 6-1 for trainer Al Stall, Jr., on the 10-year anniversary of his upset victory with Blame over Zenyatta.

By My Standards has put together a strong campaign in 2020 as well, with three Grade 2 wins and a second to Improbable in the G1 Whitney to his credit. The Bret Calhoun trainee will break from post three at 10-1 on the morning line.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY

Classic

  1. Tacitus (J. Ortiz, Mott, 20-1)
  2. Tiz The Law (Franco, Tagg, 3-1)
  3. By My Standards (G. Saez, Calhoun, 10-1)
  4. Tom's d'Etat (Rosario, Stall, 6-1)
  5. Title Ready (Lanerie, Stewart, 30-1)
  6. Higher Power (Prat, Sadler, 20-1)
  7. Global Campaign (Castellano, Hough, 20-1)
  8. Improbable (I. Oritz, Baffert, 5-2)
  9. Authentic (Velazquez, Baffert, 6-1)
  10. Maximum Security (L. Saez, Baffert, 7-2)

Turf

  1. Arklow (Geroux, Cox, 5-1)
  2. Magical (Moore, O'Brien, 5-2)
  3. Tarnawa (Soumillion, Weld, 6-1)
  4. Mehdaayih (Rosario, Gosden, 30-1)
  5. Donjah (Lecoeuvre, Grewe, 30-1)
  6. Lord North (Dettori, Gosden, 8-1)
  7. United (Prat, Mandella, 8-1)
  8. Red King (Rispoli, D'Amato, 20-1)
  9. Channel Maker (Franco, Mott, 5-1)
  10. Mogul (Boudot, O'Brien, 4-1)

Distaff

  1. Ce Ce (Velazquez, McCarthy, 12-1)
  2. Harvest Moon (Prat, Callaghan, 12-1)
  3. Dunbar Road (J. Ortiz, Brown, 12-1)
  4. Horologist (Alvarado, Mott, 8-1)
  5. Swiss Skydiver (Albarado, McPeek, 2-1)
  6. Lady Kate (Gaffalione, Kenneally, 15-1)
  7. Point Of Honor (Castellano, Weaver, 30-1)
  8. Valiance (L. Saez, Pletcher, 12-1)
  9. Ollie's Candy (Rosario, Sadler, 10-1)
  10. Monomoy Girl (Geroux, Cox, 8-5)

Mile

  1. Circus Maximus (Moore, O'Brien, 12-1)
  2. Kameko (Murphy, Balding, 6-1)
  3. Lope Y Fernandez (Dettori, O'Brien, 30-1)
  4. Siskin (Keane, Lyons, 12-1)
  5. Digital Age (Castellano, Brown, 8-1)
  6. Safe Voyage (Hart, Quinn, 15-1)
  7. Casa Creed (Alvarado, Mott, 20-1)
  8. March To The Arch (Gaffalione, Casse, 15-1)
  9. One Master (Boudot, Haggas, 15-1)
  10. Halladay (L. Saez, Pletcher, 12-1)
  11. Ivar (Talamo, Lobo, 4-1)
  12. Uni (Rosario, Brown, 5-1)
  13. Factor This (Geroux, Cox, 8-1)
  14. Raging Bull (J. Ortiz, Brown, 8-1)

Sprint

  1. Echo Town
  2. C Z Rocket
  3. Collusion Illusion
  4. Bon Raison
  5. Manny Wah
  6. Frank's Rockette
  7. Whitmore
  8. Firenze Fire
  9. Empire of Gold
  10. Yaupon
  11. Diamond Oops
  12. Hog Creek Hustle
  13. Jasper Prince
  14. Vekoma

Filly & Mare Turf

  1. Starship Jubilee
  2. Sistercharlie
  3. Peaceful
  4. Mean Mary
  5. My Sister Nat
  6. Rushing Fall
  7. Terebellum
  8. Mucho Unusual
  9. Harvey's Lil Goil
  10. Civil Union
  11. Audarya
  12. Lady Prancealot
  13. Nay Lady Nay
  14. Cayenne Pepper

Dirt Mile

  1. Art Collector
  2. Sharp Samurai
  3. Silver Dust
  4. War of Will
  5. Knicks Go
  6. Mr. Money
  7. Rushie
  8. Pirate's Punch
  9. Mr Freeze
  10. Complexity
  11. Jesus' Team
  12. Owendale

Turf Sprint

  1. Big Runner
  2. Just Might
  3. Imprimis
  4. Front Run The Fed
  5. Wet Your Whistle
  6. Glass Slippers
  7. Leinster
  8. Oleksandra
  9. Into Mystic
  10. Bombard
  11. Wildman Jack
  12. Got Stormy
  13. Texas Wedge
  14. Extravagant Kid

Filly & Mare Sprint

  1. Speech
  2. Gamine
  3. Come Dancing
  4. Inthemidstofbiz
  5. Sconsin
  6. Venetian Harbor
  7. Serengeti Empress
  8. Sally's Curlin
  9. Bell's The One

FUTURE STARS FRIDAY

Juvenile

  1. Camp Hope
  2. King Fury
  3. Reinvestment Risk
  4. Likeable
  5. Essential Quality
  6. Keepmeinmind
  7. Jackie's Warrior
  8. Classier
  9. Sittin On Go
  10. Dreamer's Disease
  11. Next
  12. Hot Rod Charlie
  13. Rombauer
  14. Calibrate

Juvenile Fillies Turf

  1. Oodnadatta
  2. Miss Amulet
  3. Alda
  4. Plum Ali
  5. Aunt Pearl
  6. Nazuna
  7. Tetragonal
  8. Mother Earth
  9. Madone
  10. Campanelle
  11. Royal Approval
  12. Spanish Loveaffair
  13. Union Gables
  14. Editor At Large

Juvenile Fillies

  1. Simply Ravishing
  2. Vequist
  3. Dayoutoftheoffice
  4. Thoughtfully
  5. Girl Daddy
  6. Crazy Beautiful
  7. Princess Noor

Juvenile Turf

  1. Sealiway
  2. New Mandate
  3. Abarta
  4. Public Sector
  5. Cadillac
  6. Mutasaabeq
  7. Fire At Will
  8. Outadore
  9. Battleground
  10. Ebeko
  11. Gretzky the Great
  12. Go Athletico
  13. Devilwala
  14. The Lir Jet

Juvenile Turf Sprint

  1. Mighty Gurkha
  2. Windy City Red
  3. Lipizzaner
  4. County Final
  5. Cowan
  6. Ubettabelieveit
  7. Momos
  8. Amanzi Yimpilo
  9. After Five
  10. Bodenheimer
  11. Into the Sunrise
  12. Dirty Dangle
  13. Second of July
  14. Golden Pal

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Breeders’ Cup: First Group Of European Challengers Step Out At Keeneland

The European Breeders' Cup challengers who arrived at Keenland on Friday night cleared quarantine Sunday at around 7 p.m. All European runners are now on site except for the Aidan O'Brien-trained team that is expected to arrive at the European quarantine barn around 8 o'clock tonight.

They will not been seen out on the track until Thursday once they have cleared quarantine.

On a very cold Monday morning, the Jessica Harrington-trained duo of Cayenne Pepper (IRE) (Filly & Mare Turf) and Oodnadatta (IRE) (Juvenile Fillies Turf) were the first horses onto the training track just after 6:30. Both trotted a full circuit before heading back to the barn.

Their work riders were happy with their horses and reported that they have settled into their new surroundings well. Harrington is due to be on site Wednesday morning.

English 2000 Guineas winner Kameko (Mile) headed the next group joined by the John Gosden trained trio of Lord North (IRE) (Turf), Mehdaayih (GB) (Turf) and Terebellum (IRE) (Filly & Mare Turf). The Gosden trio trotted one circuit before heading back to the barn.

Kameko trotted for one circuit and then did a light canter for one circuit. Maddy O'Meara, Kameko's regular work rider reported him to be in fine shape.

“He seems in really good form. He traveled over well and is settled. I think he was pleased to get out onto the training track for a leg stretch.”

James Fanshawe accompanied by his wife Jacko were at the training track to see Audarya (FR) (Filly & Mare Turf) exercise. She did a trot and a light canter by herself with her work rider Geoffrey De La Sayette reporting she “moved like a dream.”

Fanshawe, who is having his first Breeders Cup runner, said: “Flew over yesterday and it's great to be here. The filly looked great out on the track so I'm very pleased.”

Nazuna (IRE) (Juvenile Fillies Turf) spent plenty of time on the track trotting and did a very light canter.

Mighty Gurkha (Juvenile Turf Sprint) accompanied Cadillac (IRE) (Juvenile Turf) and Tarnawa (IRE) (Turf) onto the training track and did a nice canter covering a circuit under regular work rider Michael Murphy. “In great form, really pleased with that,” he said.

Tarnawa was slightly on her toes when first stepping on to the training track but soon became at ease and looked in great shape.

Ubettabelieveit (IRE) (Juvenile Turf Sprint) was ridden by his trainer Nigel Tinkler this morning and looked well. They trotted two circuits of the training track and did a very light canter.

“The horse is absolutely fine,” Tinkler said. “Rowan Scott, who rides him on Friday, is flying out today so he will have a sit on him tomorrow morning.”

Safe Voyage (IRE) (Mile) and Siskin (Mile) came out together both trotting a circuit of the training track before having a light canter.

John Quinn the trainer of Safe Voyage is traveling over with his son and assistant Sean and will be at the training track tomorrow morning.

Glass Slippers (GB) (Turf Sprint) was due to have a canter on the turf track but because of the frost in the ground rerouted to the training track. She did a light canter and Jimmy Gee, representing trainer Kevin Ryan, reported all to be well with the filly.

Jockey Mickael Barzalona was at the training track to watch his mount Sealiway (Juvenile Turf) exercise this morning.

Barzalona, who already has a Breeders' Cup victory to his name when partnering Talismanic to win the Turf in 2017, said: “I flew over on Friday and I'm delighted to be here. The weather is colder than I expected but its brilliant to be out at the training track to see Sealiway. I'm very much looking forward to riding him and the plan is to sit on him tomorrow or Wednesday.”

Japanese representatives Pingxiang (Dirt Mile) and Jasper Prince (Sprint) did two laps of the training track before heading back to their barn. Both horses are now very familiar with their surroundings and connections have been very pleased with their preparations.

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Gosden Chasing Firmer Ground With Three Breeders’ Cup Entrants

Trainer John Gosden attended the very first Breeders' Cup World Championships, held at Hollywood Park in 1984, and came away victorious by saddling the filly Royal Heroine to defeat nine male rivals in the inaugural Breeders' Cup Mile. Though Gosden has been based in Europe since 1989, the trainer regularly tries to make it back to the United States for the World Championships event.

He has won a total of five Breeders' Cup races, most recently the Turf with the great racemare Enable, recently retired to stud.

“It's such a wonderful international event,” Gosden said on Wednesday's Breeders' Cup teleconference. “I've been a passionate believer in it since we started at Hollywood Park. I remember we ran out of programs and food, but it was a great day. The Breeders' Cup is at the end of our year in Europe, of course, so you have to be careful you have your horse still fresh enough.”

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Gosden will not be making the trip to Keeneland for the 2020 edition. He will, however, send three top horses and staff, along with stable jockey Frankie Dettori.

“Mr. Dettori, he likes to play trainer too, so he can do both jobs,” Gosden quipped.

Gosden plans to start two horses in the Breeders' Cup Turf and one in the Filly & Mare Turf, he explained on Wednesday's call.

Lord North, winner of the Group 1 Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot this June, will head to the Turf, along with stablemate Mehdaayih. The latter, a 4-year-old daughter of Frankel, did not get into the main body of the field for the Filly & Mare Turf, and so is expected to take on males in the 1 1/2-mile Turf instead.

Lord North, a 4-year-old son of Dubawi, was most recently seen finishing 10th over unforgiving ground in the G1 QIPCO Champion Stakes on Oct. 17.

“Well his last race was unfortunately run on a quagmire,” Gosden said. “He was in the same race as (Aidan O'Brien trainee and fellow BC Turf hopeful) Magical, and she also found the track too deep. It was the deepest ground I've ever seen, and it was drying out ground, so it was sticky, and he couldn't handle that.”

Mehdaayih was a Group 2 winner in 2019 but has had just two starts in 2020, most recently finishing fourth in the G1 QIPCO British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes, also on Oct. 17.

“She's a high class runner, and very fresh after just two starts this year,” said Gosden. “She's what you might call a wildcard.”

In the Filly & Mare Turf, Gosden will enter G1 Queen Anne Stakes runner-up Terebellum. The 4-year-old filly by Sea the Stars was most recently fifth in the G1 Sun Chariot Stakes on Oct. 3, and will also be seeking firmer ground.

“She likes what we call good, good to firm going,” Gosden explained. “Keeneland's would be like that, usually… she'd be very happy on the surface if it doesn't ride at all loose.”

All three of Gosden's Breeders' Cup hopefuls will fly to the United States on Friday, with staff flying the day ahead of the horses.

“Everyone's gone out of their way to make it feasible for us,” Gosden said. “It's a strange world we're living in now, but we just have to get on with it.”

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Magical Set To Defend Her Title In Saturday’s QIPCO Champion Stakes

The £750,000 (approximately US$885,866) QIPCO Champion Stakes held on Saturday, Oct. 17, will be the richest race in Great Britain this year and looks set to be the race of the season with Magical and Addeybb, who dominated the finish of last year's renewal, renewing old rivalries again.

Magical prevailed by three-quarters of a length 12 months ago, after which her trainer Aidan O'Brien intimated she had run her final race.

However, the daughter of Galileo was kept in training and the decision has been handsomely rewarded, with the mare chalking up three more Group 1 victories (taking her overall haul to seven) and probably running as well as she's ever done when getting the better of Ghaiyyath, the world's highest-rated turf horse, to win a second Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown last time.

She could be joined in the line-up for the mile-and-a-quarter showpiece by star stablemates Serpentine, this year's Investec Derby winner, plus Mogul, winner of the Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris, not to mention last year's Juddmonte International winner Japan, and Sovereign, winner of last year's Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby.

Addeybb has not rested on his laurels, either, chalking up two Group 1 victories in Australia in the spring before finishing runner-up in the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot. He swiftly got back to winning ways in a Listed race at Ayr last time.

Standing in the way of the O'Brien contingent and Addeybb are two outstanding candidates trained by John Gosden in Mishriff, the Prix Du Jockey Club victor, and Lord North, emphatic winner of the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot in June.

Mishriff followed up his French Classic success by landing a Group 2 contest at Deauville, while Lord North was third behind Ghaiyyath and Magical in the Juddmonte International at York on his latest start.

Another fascinating runner among the home team is the William Muir-trained Pyledriver, who drops half a mile in distance after being beaten just over a length into third in the Pertemps St Leger at Doncaster last time. His exploits earlier in the season included emphatic wins in the King Edward VII Stakes, at Royal Ascot, and Sky Bet Great Voltigeur, at York.

Muir is delighted by the well-being of his stable flagbearer and is relishing dropping him back in distance. The trainer, seeking a first Group 1 win after 29 years with a licence, said: “He's getting stronger and is starting to retain his weight easier. His work has been good, the same as ever, and I'm very confident I've still got him at his best.

“I think if it hadn't been for this type of year, we would probably not run him over a mile and a six in the St Leger. You can't be dogmatic and say he didn't stay because he ground it out, but that was his class. He wasn't as effective because we took his gears and speed away from him. Martin [Dwyer] was sitting, waiting and having to hold him on to him when he wanted to kick.

“I'm not worried about the ground and the trip won't be a problem. Straight after he won the Voltigeur, the jockey went on TV and said he had the pace to win a Group 1 over a mile and a quarter.”

Pyledriver will be staying in training next year. Muir said: “We've got loads to look forward to with this horse and, no matter what else, the boys [the trio who own the horse] have had a fantastic time. We've enjoyed every minute of it and we've got next year and the year after with him, when we will be looking at the big races all around the world.”

Cirrus Des Aigles (2011) and Almanzor (2016) have been French-trained winners of the QIPCO Champion Stakes in the past decade and Skalleti will attempt to again take the prize across the Channel.

The 5-year-old grey, trained by Jerome Reynier, has won 12 of his 15 races and scooped the Group 2 Qatar Prix Dollar for a second time at Longchamp this month. Before that, he had mastered Sottsass, the subsequent Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner, in a Group 3 contest at Deauville.

Other possibles among the 16 entries include three-time Group 1 winner Benbatl, who is also engaged in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (sponsored by QIPCO).

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