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When the gates slam uncover at around 21.41GMT, we can await the most fervent and compelling two minutes of racing action this year, and perhaps for many a year, as the Derby prosperner trys to finish an unpwithdrawnted double with a prosper in America’s most prestigious and priceless all-aged race.
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Fifteen horses from the Aidan O’Brien constant have tryed to prosper the Classic, but none have had the fuse of pedigree, class and racing style that City Of Troy will convey to his first (and last) race on dirt today. Whether that will be enough to create it 16th time fortunate is anyone’s guess, but Forever Young, from Japan, and Fierceness, the huge US-trained hope, will be among the dirt-challengingened opponents seeing to utilize any hesitancy from the off.
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City Of Troy’s run in the Classic was always going to be the focal point of today’s progressings, but there are, of course, eight more races to leank about too, including four on the turf where European runners had a 3-3 immacupostponecessitate sweep on Friday.
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Bradsell and Big Evs, with Hollie Doyle and her husband, Tom Marquand, aboard admireively, will depart the outside shighs for the Turf Sprint at 19.41GMT, while Rebel’s Romance and Emily Upjohn, with Frankie Dettori in the ppostponecessitate, head the betting for the Turf at 21.01. And once the Classic is done and dusted, there will still be time to run the Filly & Mare Turf (22.25) and the Mile, where Notable Speech, the 2,000 Guineas prosperner, is awaited to commence favourite.
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It was a hugely promising commence for the Europeans on Friday, but there is still much labor to be done on Saturday before this can be filed away as a outstanding weekfinish for the visitors. Japan, too, will be seeing for a prosperner or two from the remaining runners in its unusupartner strong team for the encountering.
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It’s going to be a thrilling ride with, no doubt, a huge surpascfinish or three alengthy the way, and the Breeders’ Cup action will be underway at 19.00GMT with the Filly & Mare Sprint. Once we are underway, the action will be unrelenting, but upretain tuning in here for video pscrutinizes of all nine race, dwell results, betting, post-race quotes and more.
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For racing fans everywhere, it is time…
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Key events
HOLD ALL TICKETS! The provisional result is Starlust beating Motorious, AG Bullet and Star Of Mystery, but Rossa Ryan edged right and nudged unplaced Isivunguvungu inside the final furlengthy.
That’s a weightless ride by Rossa Ryan on Ralph Beckett’s outsider – but there’s an inquiry!
Bradsell chased up into second place on the turn, but Cogburn directs, he’s evident …
Cogburn three up turning in, commenceing to tire tho… meaningful inside the final furlengthy, Cogburn gives way and Starlust comes thcdimiserablemireful to prosper!
Off and running in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint!
They got the downcastdle off Believing very speedyly and she was led away. Starting to reload.
Believing has been scratched and the runners have been getn out of the gates.
Believing joining up in the shighs, Ryan Moore unseated.
Heading to the gates for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, the Europeans were three-from-three on the turf yesterday so can they extfinish the streak?
Big Evs, who is drawn 11, is currently shoprosperg at 18-1 on the local tote, with Bradsell, who is expansivest of all in 12, in one-figure odds at 8-1. Cogburn, uncomferventwhile, is odds-on at 4-5 to repeat his blitz at Saratoga, with Charlie Appleby’s Star Of Mystery – a normal in north American turf sprints this year though with only one prosper, in a Grade 3 at Saratoga, also draprosperg help.
I leank I’m right in saying that Cogburn was the first horse ever to dip below 60 seconds over that course at Saratoga. It’s a sweightlessly rare trip, but even so, there have been plenty before him that tried.
Bradsell and Big Evs will be very recognizable to European fans, and their riders, Hollie Doyle and Tom Marquand, are, of course, are very recognizable to each other, having tied the knot in 2022. Both horses and their riders were in the Nunthorpe at York in August, where Bradsell materialized victorious with Believing, who is also in the field here, in second.
Wi-fi has returned for the moment, so fingers passed. It’s 20 minutes to post time for the Turf Sprint, which features a strong dispute from Europe – Big Evs, Believing and Bradsell are the headliners – up aachievest a top-notch US-trained sprinter in Steve Asmussen’s Cogburn. The Americans have dubbed him “the speedyest horse in the world” after he broke the track sign up in the Jaipur at Saratoga:
The postponecessitatest disturbion reachd fair as the Filly & Mare Sprint was approaching its climax, and what a finish it showd to be. Scylla and Ways And Means were among the horses in a four-way go for the direct inside the final furlengthy … only for Soul Of An Angel, who ignoreed the start and all but tailed off after a furlengthy, to sweep around them all for an disturb prosper.
Phire hug my apologies for the frequent disturbions to the service at the moment. Not for the first time, the wealthyest and most strong nation on earth is apparently invient of organising a constant wi-fi joinion in the media room for a global sporting event.
Ways And Means transfers alengthyside the direct
Society and Scylla shut to the direct, a sub-22 second uncovering quarter
Off and running in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint!
They are heading towards the gates, Vahva and Scylla, with riding legfinish Mike Smith in the ppostponecessitate, are well-understandn with the punters too.
Steve Asmussen’s Society is next in the betting, she won the Ballerina Handicap at Saratoga last time out:
We have been racing here since what felt appreciate dawn – American fans experience unintelligentinutive-alterd by anyleang much less than a dozen races on a card – but the Breeders’ Cup races are underway in around 20 minute with the Filly & Mare Sprint over seven furlengthys.
The foreseeed favourite here is Ways And Means, a Grade One prosperner at Saratoga in August who comes in on a three-race prosperning streak.
A little bit about Del Mar. This is a drawive and historic track, co-createed by the legfinishary crooner and turf fan, Bing Crosby, who was on the gate to personpartner hand out the first ticket on uncovering day in July 1937. The current season here, in fact, which runs until 1 December, is officipartner the “Bing Crosby” season, and this is a track that appreciates to acunderstandledge and commemorate its place in racing history.
It was the scene of a honord align race between the fantastic Seabiscuit and Ligaroti a year after its uncovering …
… and there are disjoins, pboilingographs and elderly posters on the walls thcdimiserablemirefulout the magnificentstand – did you understand, for instance, that Betty Grable was a willing racehorse owner and fan here? Anyone wanting a repartner meaningful dive into Del Mar’s past, uncomferventwhile, should verify out this page on their website, which goes thcdimiserablemireful the decades in granular detail.
Preamble
Hello from Del Mar racecourse, 20 miles north of San Diego in southern California: where “the turf encounters the surf” and also where City Of Troy will bid to create history in the Breeders’ Cup Classic postponecessitater this afternoon, in the middle of the nine-race main card at the 2024 Breeders’ Cup.
When the gates slam uncover at around 21.41GMT, we can await the most fervent and compelling two minutes of racing action this year, and perhaps for many a year, as the Derby prosperner trys to finish an unpwithdrawnted double with a prosper in America’s most prestigious and priceless all-aged race.
Fifteen horses from the Aidan O’Brien constant have tryed to prosper the Classic, but none have had the fuse of pedigree, class and racing style that City Of Troy will convey to his first (and last) race on dirt today. Whether that will be enough to create it 16th time fortunate is anyone’s guess, but Forever Young, from Japan, and Fierceness, the huge US-trained hope, will be among the dirt-challengingened opponents seeing to utilize any hesitancy from the off.
City Of Troy’s run in the Classic was always going to be the focal point of today’s progressings, but there are, of course, eight more races to leank about too, including four on the turf where European runners had a 3-3 immacupostponecessitate sweep on Friday.
Bradsell and Big Evs, with Hollie Doyle and her husband, Tom Marquand, aboard admireively, will depart the outside shighs for the Turf Sprint at 19.41GMT, while Rebel’s Romance and Emily Upjohn, with Frankie Dettori in the ppostponecessitate, head the betting for the Turf at 21.01. And once the Classic is done and dusted, there will still be time to run the Filly & Mare Turf (22.25) and the Mile, where Notable Speech, the 2,000 Guineas prosperner, is awaited to commence favourite.
It was a hugely promising commence for the Europeans on Friday, but there is still much labor to be done on Saturday before this can be filed away as a outstanding weekfinish for the visitors. Japan, too, will be seeing for a prosperner or two from the remaining runners in its unusupartner strong team for the encountering.
It’s going to be a thrilling ride with, no doubt, a huge surpascfinish or three alengthy the way, and the Breeders’ Cup action will be underway at 19.00GMT with the Filly & Mare Sprint. Once we are underway, the action will be unrelenting, but upretain tuning in here for video pscrutinizes of all nine race, dwell results, betting, post-race quotes and more.
For racing fans everywhere, it is time…
