The 2025 Breeders’ Cup is approaching! The horse racing world’s consideration is on Del Mar for this yr’s World Championships, with a number of worth performs scheduled for Friday and Saturday at “The place the Grass Meets the Waves.”
With 14 races, a well-stocked monitor, and several other prime horses in coaching, there are many alternatives to seek out worth. Let’s have a look!
Friday October 31
Race 6, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Dash: #6 Intricate Spirit (Morning line odds 12-1)
My solely hope for Friday’s program got here within the first race of the occasion. There are some very quick 2-year-olds entered and I believe there’s loads to love about coach Miguel Clement.
Intriple Spirit received his first at Saratoga Race Course in August, defeating Turf Star (who entered the Juvenile Turf to complete Friday’s card). He then ran second (to a different Juvenile Turf runner, Road Beast) on the quirky Kentucky Downs turf course earlier than bouncing again within the Grade 3 Futurity Stakes at Aqueduct. There he led by almost two lengths over six furlongs in a time of 1:07.98.
Merely put, Intricate Spirit simply would not do a lot unsuitable. The truth is, he has a 2-2 file on conventional grass programs and has taken a step ahead in velocity numbers in each begin to date. There are some nice prospects right here, however Intricate Spirit strikes me as a real candidate and he will probably be on all my tickets.
November Saturday 1
Race 5, Prevagen Breeders’ Cup Turf Dash: #5 Deliver The Band Residence (12-1 AM Line)
I’ve a request for you whenever you view PP. Take a pink pen and underline Deliver the Band Residence’s two efforts at Woodbine over the previous two seasons. That leaves you with a runner who is nearly by no means unsuitable.
Beginning in races two and three, he seemed like a world winner with two nice stakes scores at Saratoga. He did it within the G2 Troy Stakes and Harvey Pack Stakes on very stable floor and in very quick occasions. Granted, this clunker’s final outing was within the G2 Close to-Ctic Stakes hosted by the Thgoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, which is hard to swallow, however he did not do effectively in that race a yr in the past both. He’s very possible the one runner educated by Mark Cass who doesn’t like Woodbine.
If Deliver the Band Residence is identical horse we noticed this summer season in upstate New York, he might positively win this race. He is very, very quick, and if his final job at Belmont is any indication, he’ll be sitting within the ‘go’ right here.
Race 9, Longines Breeders’ Cup Basic: #8 Mindframe (10-1 AM line)
We perceive that there’s some hesitation concerning Mindframe in a serious relaunch of the traditional. Nevertheless, it’s unlikely that the difficulty he had within the G1 Jockey Membership Gold Cup was his fault.
We draw the road beneath that race and return to the G1 Stephen Foster Stakes. He seemed like a world-beater that day as he drove house 9 furlongs over Sierra Leone in 1 minute, 47.48 seconds. By all accounts, he is been coaching effectively for his journey out west, and Irad Ortiz Jr. (who jumped off the Thoughts Body final time) thinks he is match to return.
Sovereignty clearly deserves respect, and he’s under no circumstances a foul favourite. But when Mindframe is near 10 to 1 the morning line worth, I believe it is a mistake. His finest energy is totally sufficient to get the job executed, and given these odds, I would don’t have any alternative however to guess on him.
Race 12, Maker’s Mark Breeders’ Cup Mares Turf: #4 Village Voice (15-1 AM line)
Saturday’s finale was attention-grabbing with some very sharp horses coming in from throughout the pond. Nevertheless, my worth play was on a visit earlier this season and I appear to be getting a robust connection.
Village Boyce had not raced in almost a yr earlier than working within the Grade 3 Waya Stakes at Aqueduct. She fell behind at a reasonably modest tempo, however when she had each proper to get rusty, she recovered and obtained the job executed in her US debut. Moreover, in her back-to-back, she completed fourth within the Group 1 British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes towards a gaggle that was most likely higher than the one she will probably be enjoying right here.
I count on her to enhance as a second off the bench, and if she’s the runner she ran in Europe in 2023 and 2024, she’ll have an ideal likelihood. Add within the presence of coach Chad Brown’s new rider Flavien Prat, and in a race with much more velocity than the final time she needed to work along with her, she struck me as a really sturdy worth proposition.
