Breeders' Cup Pre-Entrants Log Final Main Track Works

Other Saturday morning workers for the Breeders’ Cup on the fast main track were:

Hronis Racing's Chaos Theory (Turf Sprint) worked a half-mile in :47 and galloped out five-eighths in :59.20 for trainer John Sadler. …

Kristen Boice and Marylou Holden’s Indian Summer winner Bodenheimer (Juvenile Turf Sprint) worked a half-mile in :47.80. “It was a very nice work and he did it easily,” trainer Valorie Lund said. …

Calumet Farm’s True Timber (Dirt Mile) and Bon Raison (Sprint) worked half-miles in :50 and :49.80, respectively, for trainer Jack Sisterson. Bon Raison is first on the preference list for the Sprint and would need one defection from the pre-entrants to make the 14-horse field. True Timber would need four defections from the Dirt Mile. 

“I got all his eighths in 12 and change and he finished great,” Sisterson said of Bon Raison. He added of True Timber: “That was his best work. I got his last eight in :11 and 2. If he doesn’t get in, we have the ($150,000) Lafayette (Presented by Keeneland Select on Nov. 7) to fall back on.” …

Cypress Creek and Arnold Bennewith’s Keepmeinmind (:48) and Dreamer’s Disease (:48.40 out five-eighths in 1:00.80) worked separate half-miles for trainer Robertino Diodoro in preparation for the $2 million TVG Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) Presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance.

“David Cohen worked both of them and he will ride Dreamer’s Disease and Jose Ortiz will be on Keepmeinmind,” Diodoro said. …

Trainer Brendan Walsh sent out a trio of Breeders’ Cup hopefuls for half-mile works: DARRS Inc.’s Extravagant Kid (Turf Sprint), G. Chris Coleman and Brad King’s Into Mystic (Turf Sprint) and The Cool Silk Partnership’s Midnight Sands (Dirt Mile). Extravagant Kid (:48.20) worked with Plus Que Parfait; Into Mystic (:48.20) worked with Midnight Sands (:47.20).

“The rider was pretty much motionless the whole way (on Extravagant Kid),” Walsh said. “That was the kind of work you like to see going into a race. He did it well within himself. He gives me all the signs that he is coming into the race the way we like. This year for whatever reason he seems to be working better.”

Of Into Mystic, who needs one defection among the Turf Sprint pre-entries to get in the gate, Walsh said: “She did her usual thing: went off a little slower and picked up good and finished good and galloped out good. We are very pleased.” …
Working half-miles for trainer Chad Brown were Peter Brant’s Raging Bull (FR) (:48.20) and Klaravich Stables’ Front Run the Fed (:48.20) for the Mile and Turf Sprint, respectively. …

On the work tab for trainer Doug O’Neill were WCR II’s Wildman Jack (Turf Sprint) and Roadrunner Racing, Boat Racing and Strauss Bros. Racing’s Hot Rod Charlie (Juvenile), who worked 5 furlongs in 1:01.20. …

Japanese runners Jasper Prince (Dirt Mile), owned by Kazuo Kato, and Naoya Fujii’s Pingxiang Sprint) worked 3 furlongs in :37 and :36.40, respectively, for trainer Hideyuki Mori. …

Grupo 7c Racing Stable’s Jesus’ Team (Dirt Mile), third in the Preakness (G1) in his most recent start, worked a half-mile in :48.40 to the satisfaction of trainer Jose D’Angelo. It was the second Keeneland work for Jesus’ Team, who arrived Oct. 9 and worked 5 furlongs in 1:00.80 last Saturday. …

Michael and Jules Iavarone et al’s Lady Prancealot (IRE) (Filly and Mare Turf) worked a half-mile in :49.20 and galloped out five-eighths in 1:02.20 under Julien Leparoux for trainer Richard Baltas.

“She works on dirt all the time at home in California and I imagine the turf was a little soft this morning,” said Aimee Dollase, assistant to Baltas. …

Kaleem Shah’s undefeated Madone (Juvenile Fillies Turf) worked 5 furlongs in company with American Tattoo (ARG) in 1:01.40 for trainer Simon Callaghan. “She works on dirt at home and we wanted to keep her in her routine,” Callaghan said.