Breeders' Cup Turf

I mean, y- you know, just kinda skipping through a few.

Um, it's kinda unfortunate, but it looks like we're probably not going to get Ombudsman in the Breeders' Cup Turf.

Uh, this Saturday at, in Ascot is Champion's Day, which has like come to rival the Breeders' Cup, at least in the UK, and Ombudsman is being pointed for the big race on Champion's Day if the turf doesn't come up soft.

And the weather forecast is good right now for the weekend, and Gosden said he probably would not send Nit- send Ombudsman to the Breeders' Cup Turf if he does go ahead and run at, uh, at Ascot this weekend.

And, you know, so that's unfortunate.

But, um, the Mile looks really good to me.

Bring you the podcast from there.

Um, and that horse goes Champion Stakes and then Breeders' Cup Turf.

That's the sort of thing we like to see, isn't it?

Ah, love it, and I think now this is the time of year where we start talking about international targets.

I, I think it'd be...

Well, you, you can't not run a horse like that in a race like that for that reason.

And then Varandeur himself looks as though he's gonna go Breeders' Cup Turf after his slightly unlucky seventh in the Arc.

Yeah.

But the third and fourth place finishers in there are two females.

Uh, Diamond Necklace, the third place finisher, and, uh, Friendly Soul, the fourth place finisher, uh, are reportedly under strong consideration, that's Aidan O'Brien and John Gosden, uh, for the Breeders' Cup Fillian Mayor Turf, and maybe even the Breeders' Cup Turf itself.

We'll see.

And fillies, uh, or mayors beat the boys in every grade one stakes on that card except for the Arc.

Yeah.

They were kinda mulling over whether, whether they go filly turf or, or, or the Breeders' Cup Turf.

Um, it was a big effort out wide, though.

Um, and she was always, again, three wide, wide in the box seat, but they didn't go hard enough really to kinda trouble them.

She, she got to third pretty easily and stayed on okay.

So, um, yeah, she'll go to Americans, some sort of guys.

Um, it depends whether they go filly mares or, or, or the Breeders' Cup Turf or, I mean, she'd probably capable of doing either, whatever she wanted to do.

But yeah, I, I, I thought she, they were the, it was the best three-year-old in the O'Brien yard all season.

And the, and what he's got left this season, I'm guessing it's the obvious.

It's Champion Stakes or the Breeders' Cup Turf or, or the Japan Cup.

And obviously you've got Kallandergan in two of those, so it's not...

I-I-I...

Um, yeah, difficult one.

Another one we have to sit down [chuckles] and discuss.

We do have a filly, a two-year-old filly, wasn't running this weekend, called Drasinda, who I know that we're quite keen to run in the, in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, I think it's called.

Um, because that would actually suit her quite well.

I'm not feeling as confident there.

But, uh, that being said, a g- another segue into the Kentucky Turf Cup, um, Burnham Square was the hope, right, of America for the Breeders' Cup Turf.

We really, really felt like we had a good one there, and I don't wanna completely jump ship.

Um, it was a disappointing performance by Burnham Square at Kentucky Downs, a horse that, I mean, a track that we know he likes because he ran so well in the Nashville Derby last year.

Ian Wilks is chalking it up to the heat.

He just said it was really hot out there, he wasn't acting like himself.

But they're still pointing towards the Breeders' Cup Turf, but you feel a little deflated if you were, you know, waving the Burnham Square flag, excited for him.

Yeah.

which isn't all that recent.

He's had one start since this effort, which is in the Breeders' Cup turf.

And I don't know what your thoughts were, David.

You know, we've talked about this race before.

The trio themselves all very talented, and he deserves to be a short price here on the morning line.

Yeah, he's obviously the horse to beat based on his resume of races in the United States last year, that three race campaign.

It was a strong one coming over and winning the grade one sword dancer right off the bat and then following it up with a couple of respectable third place finishes behind his more highly regarded stablemate Rebels Romance in both this race last year and the Breeders' Cup Turf like we looked at.

One start since that, Ashley, earlier this year, it was pretty disappointing over in Doha.

The No. 3 Al Cordobes for Charlie Appleby with Flavian Pratt up, one of the three Europe horses who will be in this race.

Third in the Turf Classic last year, third in the Breeders' Cup Turf, but has been off for seven months.

We see a 5-2 morning line, and we also see a pattern here, Ed, because we're going to mention this in the next race as well, that the favorite is coming into the race off a lot of time off.

Yeah, I noticed the same, similar to the Goodwood, not coming from the same track.