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@AtTheRaces @jose93_ortiz @BreedersCup Rhetorical makes it even better. Irad was on him for 10 of his 12 starts, so it's a real switch. Jose has ridden Magnitude in his last five, including the Dubai World Cup and Stephen Foster wins.

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@paulickreport The Whitney is the one to forgive. He stumbled at the start as the 1.95-1 favorite and ran an 89. The start before that, he won the Stephen Foster with a 114.

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@TwinSpires @jose93_ortiz @mjsharp75_joe She paid $6.96. Twelve went to post after four scratches, and she was the one finishing best.

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@theTDN @coolmoreamerica @ChurchillDowns @WinStarFarm @Chinahorseclub @bradcoxracing She paid $4.40 in race 1, and that was about as quiet as the Churchill maiden races got. Notgonnacatchher won race 2 at $52.72 and Bardstown took race 5 at $14.86.

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@DRFGrening @BelmontPark1905 @jjcjockey @jockeyfranco It stood. Supplier paid $37.84 to win, the first real price on the Belmont card. The three winners before him paid $5.00, $4.00 and $4.04.

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Tiffany and Ethical Diamond top the Turf on 1 and 2 Beyers. Of the horses with 3, El Cordobes leads at 101.0. Eight runners have no Beyer at all. 🏇 #BreedersCup

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Our Churchill late Pick 4, races 8 to 11. 50 cents, 108 combos for $54. No singles. We go four deep in the Street Sense and use Card Man over the favorite, Mystik Bayou. Leg 1 goes at 4:25 pm ET.

#ChurchillDowns 🏇

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@DavidZee747 Good one, I didn't know she'd come that close. Ten straight to open a career is hard to do anywhere.

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Was previewing Maryland Millions day, Kerness K will be going for 11 wins in a row in Race 3 Saturday. Something to keep your eye on. The last Horse, I can remember doing that was Songbird.

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Breeders' Cup post position draw is Monday, Oct. 26 at 5 PM ET at the Keeneland sales pavilion. All 14 races get drawn. It airs on FanDuel TV and the Breeders' Cup site and socials. Posts drop, then the real handicapping starts. 🏇 #BreedersCup

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Deterministic has the top Mile average at 101.0 (99-104-100). Brilliant Berti is 97-97-97. Lots of Europeans here with no Beyer to go on. 🏇 #BreedersCup

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@AtTheRaces @BreedersCup @SkySportsRacing He's the 9-5 morning line favorite in race 10 and has already won at this trip at Belmont. The one we'd worry about is Card Man (5-2) for Chad Brown and Flavien Prat, who has the faster figures on our sheet.

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@sdhorserace @IanWilkesRacing @BreedersCup @keeneland His best race came at Keeneland, a career-best 107 Beyer winning the Elkhorn in April. TimeformUS has him at early 47, late 125, so he'll be coming from way back. He does come in off a 7th as the favorite in the Kentucky Downs Turf Cup.

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@sdhorserace @wwaldenracing @BreedersCup @keeneland Keeneland fits him. He's made 3 starts there for 2 wins and a 3rd, and the best Beyer of his career is the 107 he ran winning the Turf Classic at Churchill in May.

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@paulickreport Sovereignty comes in off a 112 Beyer winning the Whitney, the top last-race figure in the Classic pre-entries. If Mott thinks he's training even better than that, the rest of that field has a problem.

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@BloodHorse That family is all over Saturday's Breeders' Cup pre-entries. Not This Time has five: Magnitude, Rhetorical, Cy Fair, In Our Time and Time to Dazzle. Liam's Map has three, including Napoleon Solo.

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@TwinSpires @bradcoxracing @KaliFrancois Cox is 223 for 906 this year (25%) in the DRF pre-entry past performances. His Classic pre-entry Further Ado comes in off a 102 Beyer running 2nd to The Puma in the Pennsylvania Derby.

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@pkhcomm Defending champ, and the pace numbers put him in the middle of the Classic. TimeformUS has him at early 90, late 106. Napoleon Solo (early 124) and Knightsbridge (122) should be up front, and Golden Tempo (late 127) and Sovereignty (124) are the ones coming from behind.

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@DerbyMedia @KentuckyDerby Today's Street Sense is race 10, and Blessed Flyer is the one with questions. He won the Bashford Manor, but he's 119 days off, stretching out from 6 furlongs to a mile and a sixteenth, and making his first start as a gelding.

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@KentuckyDerby Explora is the one to watch early in the F&M Sprint. Her TimeformUS early number of 112 is tied with Kerry's Kiss in the pre-entries, and only Sweet Azteca (122), R Disaster (121) and Praying (114) are quicker on paper. Last three Beyers: 94, 97, 91.

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Bottas, Bryan Station (G2), $7.50, by 2 1/4 lengths on the turf. Ours too, as the watch horse. That's three straight stakes at a mile on grass, and his camp says the Hollywood Derby at Del Mar is possible next month. The win clinched Gaffalione the fall riding title. #Keeneland