Baeza is making progress in the Breeders’ Cup classic rankings

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Baezathe dominant winner of the Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby rose to seventh within the Breeders’ Cup traditional rankings as sovereignty maintains total lead.

The Anking is the weekly score of the Prime 10 Horse within the Breeders’ Cup Traditional competitors, going down at Delmar on November 1st.

Educated by John Silef, Baeza produced a powerful stretch drive for a 2 1/2-long victory within the first-year freshman victory within the Pennsylvania Derby on Saturday. The victory boosted McKinzie’s son with a traditional Yenking with 167 votes after the eighth week of the ballot.

Kentucky Derby winners, Travers Stakes (G1) for Sovereignty, Belmont Stakes and coach Invoice Mott, leads the rankings with 391 votes. Pacific Traditional (G1) winner Fierceness was skilled by Todd Pletcher and positioned second with 347 votes.

Sierra Leone, the Whitney Stakes (G1) winner and winner of final 12 months’s Breeders’ Cup Traditional, got here third with 319 votes for coach Chad Brown.

Pletcher-Educated Stephen Foster Stakes (G1) winner Mindframe got here in fourth with 257 votes.

Journalism, the winner of coach Michael McCarthy’s Preakness Stakes and Haskell Stakes (G1), got here in fifth with 225 votes.

Saudi Cup (G1) winner Without end Younger (JPN), skilled by Yoshito Yahagi, got here in sixth with 189 votes.

Following Baeza in eighth place is the 4-year-old antiquarian, who’s the winner of the August thirty first Jockey Membership Gold Cup (G1). Todd Pletcher skilled Antiquarian has 133 votes. Highland Falls, a 5-year-old runner-up within the Whitney Stakes, completed first with 62 votes for coach Bradcox and completed ninth.

Magnitude made his first look within the Prime 10, following a speedy second-place end within the Pennsylvania Derby. Steve Asmussen-trained Mignitude gained 23 votes in tenth place.

Fierceness, Sierra Leone, MindFrame, Journalism, Without end Younger and Antiquarian every have computerized beginning positions at this 12 months’s Breaders’ Cup Traditional. The ultimate computerized qualifier for this 12 months’s Traditional can be this Saturday’s Goodwood Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita Park.

Rankings are decided by the panels of the member panels within the Thoroughbred Racing Media, Horse Racing and Breeders Cup Racing Director Division. Every voter charges horses on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 system in descending order.