TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here This year=s Breeders= Cup will also feature a potent FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI BREEDERS’ CUP CLASSIC draft from overseas, including Declaration of War (War Front), who will contest the Classic and The Fugue (GB) (Dansili {GB}), who is slated for the Turf. Cont. p3 GRAYDAR OUT OF DIRT MILE Twin Creeks Racing=s Graydar (Unbridled=s Song) will not run in Friday=s GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile due to a quarter crack in his left front hoof. The Todd Pletcher trainee tallied three graded victories this season in the GI Donn H. at Gulfstream WIN OR LOSE AT THE DRAW Feb. 9, GII New Orleans H. Breeders= Cup week officially kicked off with the Post at the Fair Grounds Mar. 30 Position Draw held at Santa Anita Park Monday. and GII Kelso H. at Belmont Headlining the $5-million GI Breeders= Cup Classic was Sept. 28. Originally pointed 8-5 morning line to the Classic, the 4-year- choice Game On old was rerouted to the Dirt Dude (Awesome Mile following his breeze Again), who drew Saturday. AWe believed post nine in the 12 Graydar had a huge chance Graydar Adam Coglianese/C Henney horse affair. AI like his in the Breeders= Cup,@ said outside post; I didn=t Pletcher. AThis is a setback but hopefully he can be want to be buried 100% for the [GI] Cigar Mile [at Aqueduct Nov. 30].@ down on the inside,@ Added Randy Gullatt, manager of Twin Creeks Racing said trainer Bob Stables, AWe=re obviously disappointed. A Breeders= Cup Game On Dude Horsephotos Baffert of his win is a top goal of ours, but we=re always going to do charge s post. The = what=s in the best interest of the horse first. Graydar=s powerful bay will be partnered by Mike Smith, who will comeback had gone perfectly until this point. He was be searching for his fourth win in the Classic. Also undefeated this year and was sitting on a big race in likely to get some support Saturday is Mucho Macho the Breeders Cup. Hopefully, this foot issue resolves Man (Macho Uno), who was installed as the second = morning-line choice at 5-1. The 5-year-old drew the six quickly and we can make the GI Cigar Mile before he hole. AIt=s very good and I=m happy with it,@ said Mucho retires to stud.@ Macho Man=s trainer Kathy Ritvo. AI=d probably prefer not to get the one, but everything else is fine. We=re going to let [jockey] Gary [Stevens] handle it. He=s going to have to see how it goes.@ Trying to become the first repeat winner of the Classic since Tiznow is Fort Larned (E Dubai), who drew the seven slot. Trained by Ian Wilkes, the bay was listed at 6-1 on the early line. AThat=s OK,@ said Wilkes. ASeven=s a lucky number for me and looks good. Now it is all up to [jockey] Brian [Hernandez Jr.].@ Friday=s card also boasts a star- studded cast, including Royal Delta (Empire Maker), who will try and annex her third consecutive victory in the $2-million GI Breeders= Cup Distaff. Looking to block that rival=s coronation is GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Princess of Sylmar (Majestic Warrior), who defeated the two-time champ in their only meeting in the GI Beldame S. Sept. 20. Trained by Bill Mott, Royal Delta drew the four, while her junior will exit post six. Somewhat overlooked in the proceedings after tasting defeat for the first time this year in the Oct. 5 GI Shadwell Turf Mile is reigning Horse of the Year Wise Dan (Wiseman=s Ferry), who took last season=s GI Mile hero en route to a year-end championship. 21 STAKES WINNERS in 2013 INCLUDING 2 NEW JUVENILE SWS ON SUNDAY: 2YO COLT COASTLINE ROMPS IN THE STREET SENSE S. AT CHURCHILL, EARNING AN 86 BEYER. [WATCH RACE] 2YO FILLY RECEPTA DOMINATES IN THE CHELSEA FLOWER S. 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I=ve 1 Last Gunfighter First Samurai Castellano Brown 20-1 spaced his races out and that=s allowed me to keep his 2 Paynter K Awesome Again M Garcia Baffert 12-1 weight on.@ Paynter went the five panels in 1:00 in ($325,000 yrl ‘10 KEESEP) company with stablemate Flashback (Tapit). AHe was a 3 Planteur (Ire) Danehill Dancer (Ire) Moore Botti 20-1 little rusty,@ Baffert commented. ABut he=s doing great 4 Moreno Ghostzapper Talamo Guillot 15-1 now. I think he=ll be right there Saturday.@ 5 Declaration of War War Front O’Brien O’Brien 10-1 6 Mucho Macho Man Macho Uno Stevens Ritvo 5-1 7 Fort Larned E Dubai Hernandez Wilkes 6-1 8 Palace Malice K Curlin Velazquez Pletcher 10-1 BC Post Position ($25,000 yrl ‘11 KEESEP; $200,000 2yo ‘12 KEEAPR) 9 Game on Dude K Awesome Again Smith Baffert 8-5 Draw ($210,000 RNA yrl ‘08 KEESEP) 10 Will Take Charge K Unbridled’s Song Saez Lukas 12-1 Buff Bradley (Groupie Doll, Filly & Mare Sprint, post 11): “Excellent. ($425,000 yrl ‘11 KEESEP) I am glad to be where we are and that we are not down inside. I wanted 11 Ron the Greek Full Mandate Lezcano Mott 8-1 the seven or eight, even the nine would have been fine, because that is 12 Flat Out Flatter Rosario Mott 12-1 what she had last year. Rajiv [Maragh] just texted me: ‘Awesome.’” ($11,000 wnlg ‘06 OBSOCT; $85,000 yrl ‘07 FTKJUL) Carlo Vaccarezza (owner, Little Mike, Turf, post 4): “It’s fine. Little Classic Duo Breeze for Baffert Mike doesn’t need any position. We’re going to send him, so any post is Trainer Bob Baffert=s pair of GI BC Classic contenders fine. I told [trainer] Dale [Romans] this morning that anything but the one would be great.” in Game on Dude (Awesome Again) and Paynter (Awesome Again) registered their final moves before Trainer Mark Casse (My Conquestadory, Juvenile Fillies Turf, post Saturday=s contest. The former, who is undefeated in 14): “[Groaning], Well, it’s better than the 16. I haven’t been feeling well, five starts this season, covered five panels in :59 in and I can’t tell you that made my stomach feel any better...We may not company. AIt=s so quiet out there right now that I even run, but we’ll see. It’s something we’re going to discuss. It’s such a wanted to give him a target and get him focused,@ huge disadvantage. But she’s overcome some disadvantages in her Baffert said. races before. So we’ll see.” P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 10/29/13 • PAGE 4 of 23 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Breeders’ Cup Saturday Saturday, Santa Anita, post time: 6:25 p.m. EDT BREEDERS' CUP TURF-GI, $3,000,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Vagabond Shoes (Ire) Beat Hollow (GB) Espinoza Sadler 15-1 (€150,000 HRA ‘11 ARQARC; €100,000 HRA ‘12 ARQARC) 2 Teaks North Northern Afleet M Garcia Guillot 30-1 3 Twilight Eclipse K Purim Leparoux Albertrani 20-1 ($1,000 yrl ‘10 KEEJAN) 4 Little Mike Spanish Steps Smith Romans 6-1 5 Skyring English Channel Saez Fernandez 30-1 6 Tale of a Champion K Tale of the Cat Talamo Mulhall 30-1 ($62,000 yrl ‘09 KEESEP; $13,000 2yo ‘10 OBSAPR) 7 The Fugue (GB) Dansili (GB) Buick Gosden 3-1 8 Point of Entry Dynaformer Velazquez McGaughey 4-1 9 Indy Point (Arg) Indygo Shiner Stevens Mandella 9-2 10 Big Blue Kitten Kitten’s Joy Bravo Brown 6-1 11 Magician (Ire) Galileo (Ire) Moore O’Brien 8-1 12 Real Solution Kitten’s Joy Castellano Brown 8-1 Saturday, Santa Anita, post time: 5:45 p.m.