Breeders’ Cup World Championships
Friday, October 30 and Saturday, October 31
Sprint and Filly & Mare Sprint Report
Saturday, Oct. 31
$1.5 Million TwinSpires Breeders’ Cup Sprint (Grade I)
3-Year-Olds & Up 6 Furlongs
$1 Million Twin Spires Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (Grade I ) 3-Year-Olds & Up Fillies & Mares
7 Furlongs
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
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Cavorting – Stonestreet Stables’ Cavorting arrives at the TwinSpires Breeders’ Cup Filly and
Mare Sprint with a three-race winning streak for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. She drew the outside into
the full field of 14 going into seven furlongs. McLaughlin said she and jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. ought to be
able to deal with the post.
“It’s better than the one- or two-hole where you have to commit. So 14 is OK,” he said. “She
likes to stalk mid-pack. She should be out in the clear, hopefully not losing too much ground, but all of
her victories have been in the middle of the track.
“She saved ground in the Test. She was down inside around the turn and then angled out. I’m
happy with that. It’s better than the one-hole. I think we’re the filly to beat and hopefully Irad can work
out a good trip.”
In the Breeders’ Cup, the daughter of Bernardini will be venturing out of the 3yo division for the
first time.
“She’s ready to step up, we feel like,” McLaughlin said. “Seven-eighths is her best distance. it’s
always a question mark to step up and we’re doing it with three Saturday, with Sentiero Italia in the Filly
and Mare Turf, Frosted in the Classic, and Cavorting, but they couldn’t be doing better. Maybe have to
look at the positive: you get a few pounds from everybody when you’re 3.”
Holy Boss – Jerry Durant’s Holy Boss walked the shedrow of Barn 60 one day after the Steve
Asmussen trainee worked a half-mile in 49 3/5.
Judy the Beauty – Wesley Ward-owned and -trained defending Filly & Mare Sprint champ Judy
the Beauty jogged on the Polytrack training track on Tuesday morning under Frankie Dettori, who picks
up the mount in the Breeders’ Cup.
Kiss to Remember – South Florida-based trainer Marty Wolfson has a long-established record
of success shipping stakes runners to major racetracks in the Mid-west and northeast, particularly
Kentucky, and has sent several runners for engagements this weekend at Keeneland, led by Miller
Racing LLC’s 4y0 filly Kiss to Remember for a start in Saturday’s Filly & Mare Sprint.
“I sent several horses up (from Gulfstream Park) by van Sunday with my assistant (Santiago
Aquilar),” said Wolfson Tuesday morning. “She (Kiss to Remember) worked here Saturday (48 2/5).
We bought her privately after her race at Canterbury and ran her the first time in the Princess Rooney
(G2 at Gulfstream, 2nd beaten three-quarters of a length).
“She’s run well in all four starts for us and probably should have won the Ballerina at Saratoga.
She got beat a length and our rider (Irad Ortiz) dropped the whip in the stretch and Unbridled Forever
got by her. She’s earned a chance in this race and then she’s in the sale there after the race (FasigTipton, Sunday. Nov. 1, Hip no. 85)”
A daughter of Big Brown, Kiss to Remember has been through the Keeneland sales ring before,
selling for $15,000 as a yearling. Later claimed for $50,000 out of her second start, she won minor
stakes for trainer Tom Amoss before the sale to her current connections. Jockey Julian Leparoux will be
aboard for the first time Saturday as they break from post 10.
Wolfson has been to the winners’ circle after a Breeders’ Cup race in Kentucky before. He sent
out Live Oak Plantation’s Miesque’s Approval for an upset victory in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at
Churchill Downs in 2010 and was later acclaimed Eclipse champion turf runner for the season. Wolfson
is due at Keeneland Friday when he has a runner that afternoon.
Masochistic – Los Pollos Hermanos Racing and Jay Em Ess Stable’s Masochistic heads into the
Breeders’ Cup Sprint with a live shot, according to trainer Ron Ellis. Last year, Ellis saddled ex-claimer
Seeking the Sherif to an 11th-place finish in the six-furlong event.
“He’s doing tremendous,” Ellis said. “He’s worked three times since the (Santa Anita Sprint
Championship) and we feel really good about him. We were rolling the dice last year with a horse we
had claimed who loved Santa Anita, but this is a different animal. He’s still run the fastest number of
any of sprinters and he’s capable on his best day of winning this race.
“Luckily we drew an outside post,” he continued. “He has plenty of natural speed and it’s good
that a lot of speed is inside of us. He likes to sit right off and make a run. I’m excited to run.”
Masochistic, who won the Triple Bend and Kona Gold Stakes this year in California, exits a
fourth last out in the Santa Anita Sprint Championship as the 3-5 favorite Such was only the second time
in his 10-race career that he finished out of the money. The son of Sought After drew post 9 for Saturday
and will be ridden by Hall of Famer Mike Smith for the first time.
Private Zone – Good Friends Stable’s Private Zone, expected to be one of the favorites in the
Breeders’ Cup Sprint, left Barn 68 and jogged a mile and then galloped a mile on the main track under
trainer Jorge Navarro’s assistant Juan Garcia.
Super Majesty – Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer’s Filly & Mare Sprint contender, Super Majesty,
did not go to the track since she had breezed Monday morning going a half-mile in 48. The daughter of
Super Saver instead walked the shed row.
Wild Dude – The two-time Grade 1-winning son of Wildcat Heir galloped 1 1/2m on the
Keeneland main track on Tuesday morning for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer. The 5yo’s last effort in the
Santa Anita Sprint Championship was a winning one, which he took in come-from-behind fashion.
Much like his race at Santa Anita, the pace in the Sprint figures to be a swift one up front, and
Hollendorfer is hoping for a good trip.
“If you’re a come from behind horse you have to have a lot of luck,” Hollendorfer said. “It’s not
just the pace, but your horse has to be in a good position to get through if there is a lot of pace or get out
and get in the clear so even with a lot of pace you still have to have a lot of luck for him, drawing the 8
post was probably a good post for him. Some of the horses in the race have only one way to go so
whoever is fastest will get the lead.”
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