Baffert Trio Draws Outside, Tiz the Law Two in Loaded
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2020 BAFFERT TRIO DRAWS PRINCESS SECRET DENIED ENTRY INTO BREEDERS= CUP JUVENILE FILLIES OUTSIDE, TIZ THE LAW Princess Secret (Khozan), winner of the Susan=s Girl S. and My Dear Girl S. for owner and trainer Daniel Pita, was denied entry TWO IN LOADED CLASSIC into Friday=s GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies after testing positive for a banned substance. An Oct. 26 blood test administered by the Breeders= Cup Out-Of-Competition program turned up the presence of Stanozolol, an anabolic steroid expressly prohibited by Breeders= Cup under its conditions of entry. According to Breeders= Cup constructs, any horse that tests positive for anabolic steroids or any ARCI-prohibited substances in any out-of-competition sample within six months of participation in the Breeders= Cup is ruled ineligible to participate. Cont. p4 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY EURO RAIDERS BREAK THE ICE AT KEENELAND Tiz the Law breezes Saturday at Keeneland | Coady Photography The European Breeders’ Cup contingent was out in force at Keeneland on Monday. Kelsey Riley reports. Click or tap here Continuing a trend of short-priced horses drawing outside at to go straight to TDN Europe. Monday=s Rood & Riddle Breeders= Cup Post Position Draw, the potent trio of Bob Baffert contenders in the GI Longines Breeders= Cup Classic drew next door to each other in the three widest posts in a loaded 10-horse field for the 1 1/4-mile test. Given a slight nod on the morning line at 5-2, Improbable (City Zip) was parked in the eight-hole when pills were pulled. The >TDN Rising Star=, who had an up-and-down 3-year-old season, has come into his own at four, scoring three straight Grade I tallies in the Gold Cup S., Whitney S. and Awesome Again S. One slot to his outside is Baffert=s GI Kentucky Derby winner Authentic (Into Mischief). The last horse standing for his powerhouse barn in the Run for the Roses after several of Baffert=s top contenders dropped away through the season, Authentic went wire to wire and gamely repelled odds-on favorite Tiz the Law (Constitution) to score. Given a 6-1 chance, he comes off a narrow runner-up finish to the game Swiss Skydiver (Daredevil) in the GI Preakness S. Widest out is 7-2 Maximum Security (New Year=s Day). The biggest lightning rod of a horse in recent memory, the Gary and Mary West homebred was famously disqualified from a victory in last year=s Kentucky Derby for interference before going on to win an Eclipse Award as champion 3-year-old male. 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WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 15 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • NOVEMBER 3, 2020 Breeders= Cup Draw cont. from p1 In the draw for the GI Longines Distaff, champion Monomoy He started his 4-year-old campaign by annexing the inagural Girl (Tapizar) took the worst of it, pulling the widest draw in a $20-million Saudi Cup, then was mentioned by name in an FBI field of 10 as the 8-5 chalk. Victress of the 2018 Distaff at indictment of his trainer Jason Servis earlier this year that Churchill, she is set to clash with ascendant sophomore filly alleged widespread doping of Swiss Skydiver (post five) in one of Servis=s horses. Transferred to Bob the most anticipated battles of the Baffert since, he scored in the GII weekend. San Diego H. and GI TVG Pacific Other notable horses who drew Classic before finishing a well- outside posts Monday include beaten second to Improbable in Complexity (Maclean=s Music). the Awesome Again. Made the 2-1 favorite for the GI Tiz the Law, victor of the GI Big Ass Fans Dirt Mile, the GII Curlin Florida Derby, GI Belmont S. Kelso S. winner is in post 10, a and GI Runhappy Travers S., highly disadvantageous starting seemed well on his way to a point for a race that will feature an divisional title and possible Horse extremely short run before horses of the Year crown before coming bend into the first turn. Golden Pal up short in the Derby. Passing on (Uncle Mo), the 8-5 favorite for the Preakness, he has trained up the GII Juvenile Turf Sprint, drew Monomoy Girl winning the 2018 Distaff | Coady to the Classic for Barclay Tagg and widest of all in post 14. Got drew post two as a 3-1 proposition. The only other horse in Stormy (Get Stormy, post 12 in the GI Turf Sprint, 7-2), Vekoma single digits on the morning-line is Tom=s d=Etat (Blame), who (Candy Ride {Arg}, post 14 in the GI Sprint, 3-1), and Ivar (Brz) annexed the GII Stephen Foster S. earlier this year and was (Agnes Gold {Jpn}, post 11 in the GI Mile, 4-1) are also in double- pegged at 6-1. digit posts as the morning-line favorites in their respective races. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 15 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • NOVEMBER 3, 2020 The shortest-priced favorite of the two days on the morning BILL TO AUTHORIZE FIXED-ODDS line is 7-5 Jackie=s Warrior (Maclean=s Music), who dodged a bullet in the GI Juvenile draw when pulling post seven while 13 WAGERING INTRODUCED IN NEW JERSEY and 14 were still unfilled with just five pills to go. by Bill Finley Overall, 184 horses were entered in the 14 races, seven of New Jersey moved one step closer to becoming the first state which feature overflow fields. The action kicks off Friday at in the country to allow fixed-odds wagering on horse races when 2:30 p.m. ET at Keeneland with the Juvenile Turf Sprint. a bill that would authorize that form of betting was introduced in the New Jersey Legislature Thursday. The bill was introduced by New Jersey State Senator Vin Gopal and an identical bill has been sponsored by Assembly Gaming Princess Secret cont. from p1 Committee Chairman Ralph Caputo and Deputy Republican ABreeders= Cup out-of-competition testing is done to the Leader Assemblyman Ronald Dancer. With the bill enjoying highest world standards and is vital to ensuring the integrity of bipartisan support, expectations are that it will pass and will be the World Championships,@ said Breeders= Cup President & CEO signed into law by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy some time Drew Fleming. AAll horses pre-entered for the Breeders= Cup are before the beginning of the 2021 meet at Monmouth. subject to our stringent medication and testing protocols and In February, it was announced that Darby Development LLC., must meet these requirements in order to compete.