Breeders Cup 2014

Eish just under 3 weeks to go

Wise Dan misses the Mile and most likely will be retired

Not sure what the talking horses are this year ?

A talking horse will be Califonia Chrome but will be hard to beat Shared belief in the Classic.
In the mile they are still taking bets on Variety Club (sad)
But Toronado the one to punt and on the turf race Telescope

Good punting

Last years winners where are they now

www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles...breeders-cup-winners

BY TOM PARK 4:00PM 22 OCT 2014
TORONADO heads an 18-strong British raiding party assembled for the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita next week.

A two-time Group 1 winner, Toronado is a best-priced 2-1 shot with Paddy Power for the Breeders' Cup Mile.

The Richard Hannon-trained four-year-old, who will be joined by stablemate Osaila, is one of a number of highly-regarded British contenders including the Sir Michael Stoute-trained duo Telescope (Turf) and Dank (going for a second win in the Filly & Mare Turf), and the Hugo Palmer-trained juvenile Aktabantay, who takes his chance in the Juvenile Turf.

A winner of the Group 3 Solario Stakes in August, Aktabantay will be hoping to emulate last year's British-trained winner Outstrip, a challenge that excites Palmer.

"It's hugely exciting to have a horse good enough to take to the Breeders' Cup," said the trainer.

"I have only been training for three and a half years and you could say that it is the culmination of a dream, though of course my aspirations and ambitions go some way beyond my first good horse, which is what Aktabantay is."

Aktabantay finished sixth behind Full Mast in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp last time out and Palmer reports the son of Oasis Dream in good heart for his second consecutive run in Group 1 company.

"He has been in absolutely fantastic shape since he finished sixth at Longchamp two and a half weeks ago, that's why he is heading for Santa Anita. His run at Longchamp was encouraging and unlucky in equal measure. He was buried on the rail and had to challenge wide and late and was only beaten just over two lengths.

"The conditions of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf are exactly what he has been crying out for. He is undoubtedly a fast-ground horse, so the fast ground should suit him as should the likely strong pace."

Charlie Hills, who won the Juvenile Fillies' Turf last year with Chriselliam, has yet another strong team with talented three-year-old Kiyoshi (Mile), impressive Group 3 Autumn Stakes winner Commemorative (Juvenile Turf) and last year's Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Just The Judge (Filly & Mare Turf).

Just The Judge recorded her first win since her Classic success when landing a Grade 1 at Woodbine earlier this month in what proved a successful trip to Canada.

One who was less fortunate in his Canadian raid was Irish St Leger winner Brown Panther who was dramatically withdrawn from the Canadian International after unseating jockey Richard Kingscote twice and running loose before the start.

The Tom Dascombe-trained six-year-old will get his chance to redeem himself in the Breeders' Cup Turf.

Toast Of New York will be Britain's sole representative in the biggest race of the meeting, the Breeders' Cup Classic, and is a best-priced 16-1 with Betfred to add to his Group 2 UAE Derby win.

The 16-strong British raiding party on the £15.6 million Breeders’ Cup on Oct 31 and Nov 1 will feature four trainers having their first runner at the annual fixture.
Previous Breeders’ Cup winners Sir Michael Stoute, Brian Meehan, Ralph Beckett and Charlie Hills will be joined at Santa Anita, in California, by Hugo Palmer, Jamie Osborne, David Brown and Charlie Fellowes.

Hills, who struck with his first Breeders’ Cup runner when Chriselliam took the 2013 Juvenile Fillies Turf, sends the biggest team with Just The Judge (in either the Filly & Mare Turf or the Turf), Kiyoshi (Mile) and Commemorative (Juvenile Turf).
Stoute, the most successful British trainer at this meeting with six wins, will saddle Dank, who will be defending her Filly & Mare Turf crown, and Telescope in the Turf, a race Stoute has won four times.

Wet Sail (Fellowes) and Aktabantay (Palmer) represent two of the debutants in the Juvenile Turf, run over a mile. Palmer said on Wednesday: “It’s hugely exciting to have a horse good enough to take to the Breeders’ Cup. I have only been training for three and a half years and you could say that it is the culmination of a dream, though of course my aspirations and ambitions go some way beyond my first good horse.”
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Aidan O’Brien also has a strong team which will be headed by Magician, who attempts to win the Turf for the second year running, and is expected to be joined by Chiquita.
The trainer plans to be represented in three of the juvenile races with Qualify (Fillies’ Turf), The Great War (Juvenile) and War Envoy (Juvenile Turf).
Who is running where
Friday Oct 31
Juvenile Turf (1m): Aktabantay (H Palmer); Commemorative (C Hills); Faithful Creek (B Meehan); Wet Sail (C Fellowes), War Envoy (A O’Brien).
Juvenile Fillies Turf (1m): Prize Exhibit (J Osborne); War Alert (D Brown), Qualify (A O’Brien).
Saturday Nov 1
Filly & Mare Turf (1m2f): Dank (Sir M Stoute), Just The Judge (C Hills), Secret Gesture (R Beckett).
Turf Sprint (6f110y): Caspar Netscher (D Simcock); Wind Fire (D Brown).
Juvenile (1m110y): The Great War (A O’Brien).
Turf (1m 4f): Brown Panther (T Dascombe), Just The Judge, Secret Gesture, Telescope (Sir M Stoute), Magician (A O’Brien), Chiquita (A O’Brien).
Sprint (6f): Wind Fire.
Mile (1m turf): Kiyoshi (C Hills), Trade Storm (D Simcock).
Classic (1m 2f): Toast Of New York (J Osborne).

Gary Stevens will ride at next week's Breeders' Cup meeting after making a swift recovery following knee replacement surgery.

The 51-year-old rider underwent the operation on his right knee in July and had hoped to be back in in action on Boxing Day.

However, Stevens has made rapid progress in his recovery and will now feature at the two-day Santa Anita fixture.

"I came along a lot faster than I thought I was going to," he told HRTV.

"I put a target date of December 26 and after getting on horses after three days, I knew I'd be back a lot faster. My fitness level was a lot better than expected. Two thumbs up."

Stevens partnered Mucho Macho Man to win the Classic last year and also claimed the Distaff aboard Beholder.

He already has a mount lined up in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies next week aboard Sivoliere.

Frankie has picked up two cracking rides

Hootenanny and No Nay Never both favourite for their respective races

Ever since its inception in 1984, the Breeders' Cup has been a proving ground for Thoroughbred racing's greatest champions. For California Chrome, this year's 31st edition of the world championships centers on redemption.

Not that anything can ever erase the glory that comes from winning both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, yet as the seasons have changed from spring to fall, the California-bred now finds himself as a member of the supporting cast.

The star of the 3-year-old class and the upcoming Breeders' Cup is now the undefeated gelding Shared Belief, who had not even raced in 2014 while California Chrome was picking off the first two legs of the Triple Crown.

The way trainer Art Sherman sees it, the horse that came so close to ending a 36-year Triple Crown drought might go off at 5-1 or more on Nov. 1 when a star-studded field will ultimately decide Horse of the Year honors in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic.

"At least 5-1," Sherman said Wednesday during a teleconference after the Breeders' Cup pre-entries were announced, "Jerry will be 6-5, my old buddy." Jerry, of course, is Jerry Hollendorfer, the trainer of Shared Belief.

For decades, the 77-year-old Sherman worked in relative obscurity at smaller California tracks as the 68-year-old Hollendorfer fashioned a Hall of Fame career on the same circuit with 6,746 wins and earnings of $155.7 million (through Oct. 21). Sherman, in a training career that dates back to 1979, has an impressive-but-not-as-stellar 2,195 wins and $39.9 million in earnings.

There was a role reversal when Sherman took center stage with California Chrome during the spring classics, but now the status quo is back in place. California Chrome, who could have become one of the sport's immortals by winning the Belmont Stakes, is now fourth behind No. 1 Shared Belief in this week's National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top 10 poll. So much indeed has changed in the aftermath of California Chrome finishing in a dead heat for fourth in the Belmont and checking in a disappointing sixth in the Pennsylvania Derby on Sept. 20 at Parx Racing.

Each time, came with an excuse. California Chrome grabbed a quarter and suffered a leg cut when he rated along the inside early and lost to BC Classic candidate Tonalist in the Belmont, and in the Pennsylvania Derby he was pinned down along the rail most of the way and never fired as fellow 3-year-old and BC Classic entrant Bayern romped by 5 3/4 lengths.

"Every time your horse throws a little bit of a clunker you get a little bit concerned ... but he hasn't had the trip at all the last two races," Sherman said. "You haven't seen the Chrome I know."

While Sherman, a former jockey, did not chastise Victor Espinoza for his ride in either race, he made it clear that no one, including the Derby winner himself, was happy about what happened in Pennsylvania.

"The race at Parx was a little disappointing to me," Sherman said. "I would have liked a little stronger race. He had quite a bit of problems in the race. I was a little upset the way the race was run.

"Even the horse acted like he was ticked off after the race. He was cranky. He was like 'What's going on here. That's not my style of running.' I could tell he was not himself after the race. He was like "Hey, what was that all about?' He knew he had no chance. They had him in the pocket for three-quarters of a mile. He couldn't get out. I don't blame the jockeys for putting him in that position. When you have a target on your back, that's what usually happens when you race-ride."

In the interim, Sherman has been delighted with California Chrome's training as the 3-year-old preps for the biggest challenge of his career, and expects a vintage performance over a track where the son of Lucky Pulpit has won three of four starts, topped by a win in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby.

"Victor told me he's as good as he ever was, so I'm all pumped up by that," Sherman said.

When asked if he was expecting a "huge" performance from his horse in the Classic, Sherman succinctly said, "I think so, I really do." Sherman clearly understands that California Chrome will need a peak performance and perfect trip in order to become just the third horse to win both the Kentucky Derby and BC Classic in the same year and join Sunday Silence (1989) and Unbridled (1990).

"You have to give this horse a chance from the three-eighths pole home, and have to get him in the clear," said Sherman, the oldest trainer to win the Run for the Roses. "You can't be running up on horse's heels and checking him. I wish he was that type of horse that you can stop him and go. "

Yet with the quality of the 15 horses entered in the race (only 14 can run; Big Cazanova is an also-eligible) comes the ability to erase the last two races and make California Chrome Horse of the Year when all is said and done.

"I think (the BC Classic is) the greatest race we're going to have on our program in quite some years," Sherman said. "Horse of the Year will be on the line in this race. It's a big race for everybody and it will be exciting. I'm looking forward to do it. I get butterflies (in my stomach) when I think about it. "If he gets a fair shake turning for home, I'd like to see who's the best horse. Let us all come down the lane and the best horse wins it. That would be a great race." And a great chance for redemption, too.


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Will have to have a bet on my profile name, how can i not :woohoo:

bayern wrote: Will have to have a bet on my profile name, how can i not :woohoo:

Massive runner if in the same form