TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2019 BAFFERT HOPING EIGHT IS VERACITY BRINGS PROVEN TRACK RECORD TO FASIG NOVEMBER By Bill Finley GREAT FOR MCKINZIE IN When attacking the fall mixed sales, the key to future success lies in the ability to properly measure risk versus reward. That=s BREEDERS= CUP CLASSIC 36 why the eight-year-old mare Veracity (Distorted Humor), in foal to Justify, figures to bring a healthy sum at the Fasig-Tipton November Night of the Stars Nov. 5. The risk is minimal and the rewards are all but guaranteed. Veracity has had two foals that have been put up for auction, both fillies by Medaglia d=Oro. This year, her yearling sold for $900,000 at the Saratoga Sale and was purchased by Claiborne Farm. In 2018, Lael Stable spent $1 million on her first yearling, also purchased at Saratoga. AHer family is very active now,@ said consignor Shack Parrish, the president of Indian Creek. AFor her first two foals to sell for what they did speaks volumes. She=s in foal to Justify, her family is very alive and her first two foals sold for what they did. That makes her the whole package.@ Cont. p10 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY McKinzie, shown here breezing Monday at Santa Anita, was pegged the 3-1 favorite for Saturday=s GI Breeders= Cup Classic | Horsephotos MAGICAL SPIKES TEMP, OUT OF BC Champion Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) spiked a temperature prior to by Alan Carasso shipping to Santa Anita for the Breeders’ Cup and has instead been Hall of Fame conditioner Bob Baffert will go down as one of retired. She will visit No Nay Never. Click or tap here to go straight the most successful trainers of all time, but until Bayern (Offlee to TDN Europe. Wild) scored at 6-1 in one of the wildest renewals in the history of the GI Longines Breeders= Cup Classic at Santa Anita in 2014, he hadn=t tasted victory in the race. Baffert would go on to make history of his own, saddling Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) to a resounding success at Keeneland in 2015 and Arrogate (Unbridled=s Song) to a thrilling defeat of California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) back at Santa Anita the following November. The latter made him the only trainer to saddle as many as three winners of the Classic, and >TDN Rising Star= McKinzie (Street Sense) will look to add to that record Saturday afternoon. Despite winning just two of his six starts this season, the $170,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase, named in honor of the late Los Alamitos executive Brad McKinzie, was made the 3-1 favorite on Jon White=s morning line and will break from gate eight. Joel Rosario replaces Mike Smith aboard the 4-year-old. Cont. p3 KEENELAND NOVEMBER RECENT G3 WINNERS: 2018 F-T HORA WinStar Racing grad BRAVE NATION 2019 F-T HORA WinStar Racing grad FIVE STAR GENERAL PROVEN SUCCESS. In the last 6 years, WinStar's Racehorse Consignment has produced 110 winners, 13 stakes winners and 26 stakes performers, including multiple G1 winner and multi-millionaire DIVERSIFY, winner of the 2018 Whitney S. (G1) and the 2017 Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1). 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Fellow Hall of Famer Bill Mott is also a two-time Classic winner AYou never want to be down inside and actually, I was happy (Cigar, 1995; Drosselmeyer, 2011) and he will look to upset the with all my draws,@ Baffert told Laffit Pincay III. AAll the good apple cart with a pair of entrants. >Rising Star= Elate (Medaglia horses are next to each other, but at the end of the day, the d=Oro) is one of two in the race for her sire and opts for the cream rises to the top. That=s what the Breeders= Cup is all Classic over the GI Distaff. about. It=s great racing, you have to be really good and really Cont. p4 good that day.@ McKinzie tuned up for the weekend by working five furlongs in a bullet (1/41) five furlongs in 1:00.20 Monday morning at Santa Anita. AI=m really happy with him, he=s doing as well as he can,@ Baffert commented. AI loved his work today, he looks like he=s doing really well and no excuses. One thing I=ve learned about the Breeders= Cup--the edge is that you have the best horse. I feel like I have [the best horse]. I=ve always thought he was the best horse and now he has to prove it.@ Contrarians will oppose McKinzie on the combination of his lack of success over Saturday=s 10-furlong trip as well as his ability to see out that distance. AI think the pace makes the race,@ he said. AI=ve won this race with horses that didn=t want to get a mile and a quarter. Bayern wasn=t a mile-and-a-quarter horse and he got it. This is a really Elate will try to follow in the hoofprints of Zenyatta in Saturday=s tough race, we all have to show up. It=s a good field of horses, Breeders= Cup Classic, for which she is a 6-1 chance but they all have to show up.@ Breeders= Cup/Eclipse Sportswire TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • OCTOBER 29, 2019 Breeders= Cup Draw cont. Santa Anita from on the pace May 27. Both Shug McGaughey AWe were talking about the Classic last year, but we weren=t and Todd Pletcher are in search of a first score in the Classic. able to make it because of some soundness issues,@ Mott told Pincay III. AI think it=s something that we=ve always wanted to do. Cont. p5 With our mare going in the Classic it=s based on the fact that she=s got a lot of class and that she=s proven at a mile and a quarter. She seems better at that distance than any distance.@ Elate, who was most recently upset in the GI Juddmonte Spinster S. at Keeneland, is perfect in three runs over 10 furlongs, having won the GI Alabama S. at three and back-to- back runnings of the GII Delaware H. >Rising Star= Yoshida (Jpn) (Heart=s Cry {Jpn}) picks up the services of Smith, who also jumped on Drosselmeyer before the 2011 Classic. AI see a lot of similarities,@ Mott said with a grin. Code of Honor (Noble Mission {GB}) can lock up the 3-year-old championship with a win in the Classic and given his get-back, run-on style, was done no harm by drawing widest in gate 11. With a 2 1/2-furlong run into the first turn, all of the inside speed should clear and allow John Velazquez to get down and Code of Honor at Saratoga | Sarah Andrew save some ground. Vino Rosso (Curlin) is the 4-1 joint-second choice with Code of Honor and is the lone member of the Classic field with a victory over the course and distance, having won the GI Gold Cup at TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • OCTOBER 29, 2019 Breeders= Cup Draw cont.