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Originally Posted by Kasept
NEARLY FINAL FIELDS & RIDER ASSIGNMENTS
Misc. movements as noted...
$5 million Breeders' Cup Classic
1. Awesome Gem (Dollase/D. Flores)
2. Colonel John (Harty/Gomez)
3. Einstein (Pitts-Blasi/Leparoux)
4. Gio Ponti (Clement/R. Dominguez)
5. Mine That Bird (Woolley/Borel)
6. Quality Road (Pletcher/J. Velazquez)
7. Regal Ransom (bin Suroor/Migliore)
8. Richard's Kid (Baffert/Solis)
9. Rip Van Winkle (O'Brien/Murtagh) Post time favorite
10. Summer Bird (Ice/Desormeaux) 3rd choice in betting
11. Twice Over (Cecil/Queally)
12. Zenyatta (Shirreffs/M. Smith) 2nd choice in betting
13. Girolamo (bin Suroor/A. Garcia)
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Yes ... nothing says memorable quite like a Classic where the favorite is a Euro turf import for a trainer who is 3 for his last 65 in North America.
The 2nd choice has modest margin slow fig wins over Briecat, Anabaa's Creation, and Lethal heat in her last 3 races.
And the 3rd choice has never run on anything but dirt... goes 1st synthetic.