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Thursday 26 OcTOber 2017
Arrogate heads field of 14 horses for Breeders’ Cup Classic

By BETH HARRIS and Collected, his other and could do it again.
AP Racing Writer runners are Cupid, Mubta- World Approval, winner of
Defending champion Ar- ahij and West Coast. four of five starts this year,
rogate heads a full field Final entries and the post- takes on several European
of 14 horses for the Breed- position draw will be Mon- Group 1 winners.
ers’ Cup Classic, with the day at Del Mar. The Classic winner will earn
world’s all-time leading Besides Arrogate, there are $3.3 million.
money earner facing off eight returning or former For the second straight
against a horse that has champions pre-entered: year, purses will be distrib-
beaten him twice in a Highland Reel, Drefong, uted down to the eighth-
row in the $6 million race Oscar Performance, Lady place finisher in all 13 rac-
that includes five runners Eli, Champagne Room, es.
trained by Bob Baffert. Queen’s Trust, Finest City The event will open with
The Classic won’t include and Mongolian Saturday. four races on Nov. 3, fol-
Kentucky Derby winner Al- Ridden by Mike Smith, Ar- lowed by nine races on
ways Dreaming, Preakness In this Jan. 28, 2017, file photo, jockey Mike Smith stands up rogate will try to become Nov. 4.
winner Cloud Computing in the saddle after riding Arrogate to win the inaugural running the first horse since Tiznow A maximum of 14 are al-
and Belmont winner Tap- of the $12 million Pegasus World Cup horse race at Gulfstream in 2000-01 to win the Clas- lowed in each race, ex-
writ. Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. sic in consecutive years. cept the Dirt Mile, which
Pacific Classic winner Col- Associated Press O’Brien’s two Classic en- is capped at 12. Seven of
lected, who handed Ar- total of 187 horses pre-en- is second with 13 horses. tries are Churchill and War the races drew more than
rogate his last two losses, tered Wednesday for the Coolmore Stud leads all Decree.Stellar Wind makes the allowable limits.q
Whitney and Suburban $28 million, 13-race Breed- owners with 14 pre-entries. a third attempt at trying to
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winner Gun Runner, Ire- ers’ Cup world champion- Baffert is going for his fourth win the $2 million Distaff at Like
land-bred Mubtaahij and ships at Del Mar spanning consecutive victory in the 1 1/8 miles.
Travers winner West Coast two days. The track north Classic, after winning the She was second in 2015
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are among the 14 horses of San Diego is hosting the last three years with Bay- and fourth last year, and us on
expected to run in the 1¼- event for the first time. ern, Triple Crown winner comes into this year’s edi-
mile Classic. A record 46 foreign horses American Pharoah and Ar- tion undefeated in three
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NBC. trainer Aidan O’Brien. New five of his horses start in the won five of the last six run- Bon Dia 24 Aruba
The Classic field is among a York-based Chad Brown Classic. Besides Arrogate nings of the $2 million Mile, facebook.com/bondianoticia