BC: Classic (PP's/Odds)
 

Classic

11th (5:35) Breeders' Cup Classic Powered by Dodge (G1)

1 1/4 Miles | Open | 3 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $5,000,000

1 1 Lawyer Ron Velazquez J R Pletcher Todd A 126 LA 5-2
2 2 Street Sense Borel C H Nafzger Carl A 121 L 3-1
3 3 Any Given Saturday Gomez G K Pletcher Todd A 121 LA 4-1
4 4 Curlin Albarado R J Asmussen Steven M 121 L 3-1
5 5 George Washington (IRE) Kinane M J O'Brien Aidan P 126 L 20-1
6 6 Awesome Gem Flores D R Dollase Craig 126 L 30-1
7 7 Diamond Stripes Velasquez C Dutrow, Jr. R E 126 L 15-1
8 8 Hard Spun Pino M G Jones J Larry 121 LA 8-1
9 9 Tiago Smith M E Shirreffs John 121 LA 12-1


Exacta / Trifecta / Superfecta

You're doing a good job.

How are there only NINE horses pre-entered for the Classic???

Who is missing?

Only eight will go and no one is missing in my opinion.

NT

Who is missing?

You do understand that it costs a lot of money to run in a race like this and why would you want to pay all that money to get drilled?

If it were no entry fee or something small like $10k you may see a few more guys take flyers.

Yeah but much smaller

The horses you mentioned will have a whole lot better chance at the mile paying 50k to enter to run for 2 mill than they would paying 125k to run for 5 mill with almost no chance to hit the board.

Over/Under # of horses in the gate

6

I'll take over...7

Any Given Saturday scratches and Diamond Stripes to the mile? That sounds about right.

The lack of speed obviously helps Hard Spun, but try to look at the bright side man.
It just means less horses to get in Calvin's way when he brings Street Sense up the rail to win.
Even with the lack of early pace, I am still leaning toward a Curlin/Street Sense exacta box at this point.

Frankel is training AGS now?

Classic Starters

1984 - 8
85 - 8
86 - 11
87 - 12
88 - 9
89 - 8
90 - 14
91 - 11
92 - 14
93 - 13
94 - 14
95 - 11
96 - 13
97 - 9
98 - 10
99 - 14
00 - 13
01 - 11
02 - 12
03 - 10
04 - 13
05 - 13
06 - 13

Average number of Classic starters = 11.48

I knew there has been method in my madness in thinking that Hard Spun could get it soft on the lead and be away and gone. If Pino rides a proper race he could catch the others napping with the shorter stratch at Monmouth. Even DaHoss is sort of coming round to this now!!

Hard Spun was a cracking bet at 20/1 last week. Why didn't i take it.

Hard Spun / AGS for me. Curlin closing far to late into third.

Street Sense doesn't hit the board.

That is a good point Bigs. The 1989 Classic had only 8 starters and a couple of big 3yos, kind of like this year. Anybody know if that race turned out to be a memorable one?
Now, clearly nobody in this race is in the same league as Sunday Silence and Easy Goer, but a small field doesn't have to mean a bad race.