Funny Cide Pre-Entered for Breeders' Cup
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The &#36;4 million Breeders' Cup Classic is shaping up as a doozy of a race &#151; even without Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Smarty Jones.
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As all experienced racetrackers realize, picking horses a few days before the races are run is no way to bet winners. Too much new information surfaces at the last minute to make bets earlier than the last possible moment.
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Pleasantly Perfect, defending champion in the $4 million Classic, was among 101 horses listed in pre-entries announced yesterday for the 21st edition of the Breeders&#39; Cup World Thoroughbred Championships on Oct.
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Funny Cide will remain at Barclay Taggâs stable at Belmont Park and will be converted to a stable pony, accompanying his former stablemates to the track each morning during training hours.
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Trainer D. Wayne Lukas announced yesterday he will enter champion mare Azeri against the males in Saturday&#39;s Breeders&#39; Cup Classic at
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Pleasantly Perfect was the early 3-1 favorite Wednesday after pre-entries for the eight-race, $14 million Breeders' Cup at Lone Star Park in Texas on Oct. 30.
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With a strong stretch run, Ashado captured Saturday&#39;s $2 million Breeders&#39; Cup Distaff at Lone Star Park. After finishing second in last year&#39;s Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita, the 3-year-old Ashado went off as the 2-1 favorite in this event.
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FARMINGTON, N.Y.  -- Funny Cide received a regal reception and responded like a champion.
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Funny Cide has never raced at Saratoga Race Course, a disappointment to his many local fans and to his owners.
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In rationalizing the decision to enter Azeri in the $4-million Breedersâ Cup Classic (G1), trainer D. Wayne Lukas emphasized his past success in starting females against males.
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Thirteen horses were pre-entered yesterday in the Oct. 30 Breeders&#39; Cup Classic, topped by the defending champion, Pleasantly Perfect; Birdstone, the Belmont and Travers winner; Ghostzapper
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The $14 million Breeders&#39; Cup at Lone Star Park today shapes up like a &quot;Texas shootout,&quot; according to the Daily Racing Form.
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Ashado, ridden by John Velazquez, won the $2 million Distaff Race at Lone Star Park Saturday, the first event on the $14 million eight-race Breeders&#39; Cup card.
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There will be a Pick Six carryover into today's Breeders' Cup races.
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It is final tuneup time for quite a few horses on the road to the Breedersâ Cup at Monmouth Park on Oct. 27. The Haskell Invitational winner Any Given Saturday tops a field of five in todayâs Brooklyn Handicap, while Grasshopper, the Travers Stakes runner-up, is the favorite in a 10-horse field for the Super Derby at Louisiana Downs. Also, Octave takes on seven rivals in the Fitz Dixon Cotillion at Philadelphia Park as she continues her run to the $2 million Breedersâ Cup Distaff. Overshadowed by her stablemate Rags to Riches (out for the year with an injury), Octave won the Mother Goose and the Coaching Club American Oaks before finishing third in the Alabama in her previous race.
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ELMONT, New York  - Preakness champion Curlin can underline his claim as top three-year-old in Saturday's 139th running of the Belmont Stakes where the big colt was established Wednesday as the 6-5 early favorite.
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There are at least two trainers who think the correct move with Azeri is to run in the Breeders&#39; Cup Classic - Powered by Dodge (gr.