Golden Horn, Gleneagles To Be at BC
Oct 21, 2015 21:44:23 GMT -5
Post by Evelyn on Oct 21, 2015 21:44:23 GMT -5
We're close so I bumped up this Board.
Golden Horn is coming it seems. This is also a nice summary.
John Gosden has Golden Horn ready for bid at Breeders’ Cup prize
• Derby and Arc winner set to start odds-on for Turf contest
• Gleneagles among seven-strong party from O’Brien yard
The Guardian
By Greg Wood
Golden Horn, the Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner, will lead a European challenge that could total as many as 28 horses at the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland in Kentucky next week. John Gosden’s colt will be racing for the final time at the two-day meeting when he lines up for the Turf, while American Pharoah, the first horse to win the US Triple Crown since 1978, will also end his racing career at Keeneland when he lines up for the meeting’s showpiece event, the Classic.
Keeneland is a small, tight circuit, even by the standards of many American courses, and will be staging the Breeders’ Cup for the first time. That has not deterred a significant entry from European stables, however, and while the raiding party is down from 38 last year, the list includes two more English Classic winners in addition to Golden Horn.
Gleneagles, the 2,000 Guineas winner at Newmarket in May, is on course to run in the Classic on dirt, while Legatissimo, who took the 1,000 Guineas the following day, is among the entries for the Filly & Mare Turf over an extended nine furlongs. The Group One winners Make Believe, Mondialiste and Esoterique are all expected to line up for the Mile, while Found, who has already run in both the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and Qipco Champion Stakes this month, is among Aidan O’Brien’s seven possible runners in Kentucky.
Gosden has dominated the British Flat season, becoming the first trainer to win £5m in a domestic season, and success for Golden Horn in the $3m Turf would take his prize money earnings abroad past £4m. Victory would also set the seal on an extraordinary season for Frankie Dettori, whose career seemed to be on a steep downward spiral three years ago. “Golden Horn worked this morning on the long gallop [in Newmarket] and Frankie was pleased with him,” Gosden said on Wednesday.
The plan is for him to head out on Saturday, all being well. He has held his condition extremely well. He put the weight back on to what he was before the Arc five days after the race.
“He has some constitution and that is the one thing that gives us hope racing this late in the year with him.”
Dancing Brave, the outstanding Arc winner in 1986, is among the outstanding European challengers to have failed in the Turf over the last 30 years, but his defeat came in sweltering heat at Santa Anita in California. Conditions in Kentucky will be much closer to a European autumn, while Golden Horn will be the top-rated runner in the Turf by some way.
Golden Horn seems sure to start at odds-on on Saturday week, and is top-priced at 4-7 with Coral and SkyBet to add another top-level victory to his record. Found is next in the betting at 4-1 and it is 14-1 bar the pair.
It is also long odds-on that there will be a European-trained winner in the Mile, though a big contingent means that finding the right one will still be a challenge. Esoterique, a Group One winner at Longchamp on Arc day, is the market leader at 7-2, but Make Believe (9-2), Time Test (6-1), Impassable (10-1) and last year’s winner Karakontie (14-1) have all shown the form to go close given a kind draw.
Mondialiste (16-1), who was David O’Meara’s first runner in North America when he took the Grade One Woodbine Mile, is also a contender at the end of a season which started with second place in the Lincoln Handicap.
Legatissimo is a 5-4 chance for the Filly & Mare Turf, while Gleneagles is top-priced at 16-1 for the Classic in a market headed by American Pharoah at 7-4.
American Pharoah started his season in mid-March and has had seven races in all this year, but Bob Baffert, the colt’s trainer, said on Wednesday that he feels his horse will be fresh and ready for the $5m Classic.
“The horse himself is hickory, that’s Pharoah,” Baffert said on Wednesday. “He’s been able to withstand so much, the racing, shipping, he just keeps his head.
“He is a very kind horse. I weigh him every morning and he’s about 1190lbs, he’s a lean, mean fighting machine and he’s not a horse that carries any extra weight. After [his defeat at] Saratoga [in late August] it took him about 30 days to pop back up, but I’ve noticed that if I really start getting after him, he thrives on that, he thrives on work.
“I think the draw is important, but that’s out of my hands and I can’t worry about stuff like that. When the gates come open, it’s a tough race and they go hard from the word go, but right now I’m confident that I have him at that level where he’s going to run a big race.”
The main rival to American Pharoah in the betting is the five-year-old mare Beholder, who is trained by Dick Mandella and arrives in the Classic after Grade One wins on her last three starts.
Beholder also holds an entry in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff against fillies and mares, but despite a stressful journey to Kentucky, Mandella still expects to send his mare to the main event.
“Yesterday morning, the first morning after she got here, she had a temperature,” Mandella said. “She had shipping fever and I think it was brought on because she was really tense on the flight. When I walked her off the plane and a little bit clear, she urinated for what seemed like 20 minutes and I’m sure she did not urinate on the plane.
“She’s doing great and her temperature has corrected itself since yesterday morning so I think we’re back to normal. I’ve said all along that if I didn’t think she was at the top of her game, I would go for [the Distaff] but my intention is to go to the Classic.”
Golden Horn is coming it seems. This is also a nice summary.
John Gosden has Golden Horn ready for bid at Breeders’ Cup prize
• Derby and Arc winner set to start odds-on for Turf contest
• Gleneagles among seven-strong party from O’Brien yard
The Guardian
By Greg Wood
Golden Horn, the Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner, will lead a European challenge that could total as many as 28 horses at the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland in Kentucky next week. John Gosden’s colt will be racing for the final time at the two-day meeting when he lines up for the Turf, while American Pharoah, the first horse to win the US Triple Crown since 1978, will also end his racing career at Keeneland when he lines up for the meeting’s showpiece event, the Classic.
Keeneland is a small, tight circuit, even by the standards of many American courses, and will be staging the Breeders’ Cup for the first time. That has not deterred a significant entry from European stables, however, and while the raiding party is down from 38 last year, the list includes two more English Classic winners in addition to Golden Horn.
Gleneagles, the 2,000 Guineas winner at Newmarket in May, is on course to run in the Classic on dirt, while Legatissimo, who took the 1,000 Guineas the following day, is among the entries for the Filly & Mare Turf over an extended nine furlongs. The Group One winners Make Believe, Mondialiste and Esoterique are all expected to line up for the Mile, while Found, who has already run in both the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and Qipco Champion Stakes this month, is among Aidan O’Brien’s seven possible runners in Kentucky.
Gosden has dominated the British Flat season, becoming the first trainer to win £5m in a domestic season, and success for Golden Horn in the $3m Turf would take his prize money earnings abroad past £4m. Victory would also set the seal on an extraordinary season for Frankie Dettori, whose career seemed to be on a steep downward spiral three years ago. “Golden Horn worked this morning on the long gallop [in Newmarket] and Frankie was pleased with him,” Gosden said on Wednesday.
The plan is for him to head out on Saturday, all being well. He has held his condition extremely well. He put the weight back on to what he was before the Arc five days after the race.
“He has some constitution and that is the one thing that gives us hope racing this late in the year with him.”
Dancing Brave, the outstanding Arc winner in 1986, is among the outstanding European challengers to have failed in the Turf over the last 30 years, but his defeat came in sweltering heat at Santa Anita in California. Conditions in Kentucky will be much closer to a European autumn, while Golden Horn will be the top-rated runner in the Turf by some way.
Golden Horn seems sure to start at odds-on on Saturday week, and is top-priced at 4-7 with Coral and SkyBet to add another top-level victory to his record. Found is next in the betting at 4-1 and it is 14-1 bar the pair.
It is also long odds-on that there will be a European-trained winner in the Mile, though a big contingent means that finding the right one will still be a challenge. Esoterique, a Group One winner at Longchamp on Arc day, is the market leader at 7-2, but Make Believe (9-2), Time Test (6-1), Impassable (10-1) and last year’s winner Karakontie (14-1) have all shown the form to go close given a kind draw.
Mondialiste (16-1), who was David O’Meara’s first runner in North America when he took the Grade One Woodbine Mile, is also a contender at the end of a season which started with second place in the Lincoln Handicap.
Legatissimo is a 5-4 chance for the Filly & Mare Turf, while Gleneagles is top-priced at 16-1 for the Classic in a market headed by American Pharoah at 7-4.
American Pharoah started his season in mid-March and has had seven races in all this year, but Bob Baffert, the colt’s trainer, said on Wednesday that he feels his horse will be fresh and ready for the $5m Classic.
“The horse himself is hickory, that’s Pharoah,” Baffert said on Wednesday. “He’s been able to withstand so much, the racing, shipping, he just keeps his head.
“He is a very kind horse. I weigh him every morning and he’s about 1190lbs, he’s a lean, mean fighting machine and he’s not a horse that carries any extra weight. After [his defeat at] Saratoga [in late August] it took him about 30 days to pop back up, but I’ve noticed that if I really start getting after him, he thrives on that, he thrives on work.
“I think the draw is important, but that’s out of my hands and I can’t worry about stuff like that. When the gates come open, it’s a tough race and they go hard from the word go, but right now I’m confident that I have him at that level where he’s going to run a big race.”
The main rival to American Pharoah in the betting is the five-year-old mare Beholder, who is trained by Dick Mandella and arrives in the Classic after Grade One wins on her last three starts.
Beholder also holds an entry in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff against fillies and mares, but despite a stressful journey to Kentucky, Mandella still expects to send his mare to the main event.
“Yesterday morning, the first morning after she got here, she had a temperature,” Mandella said. “She had shipping fever and I think it was brought on because she was really tense on the flight. When I walked her off the plane and a little bit clear, she urinated for what seemed like 20 minutes and I’m sure she did not urinate on the plane.
“She’s doing great and her temperature has corrected itself since yesterday morning so I think we’re back to normal. I’ve said all along that if I didn’t think she was at the top of her game, I would go for [the Distaff] but my intention is to go to the Classic.”
