Flightline, the undefeated 4-year-old superstar colt, drew the quaternary gate for Saturday’s $6 1000000 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland. He also became the profound 3-5 morning-line favourite after Monday’s station attitude draw.
Trained by St. John the Apostle Sadler, Flightline has henpecked the theater in all five of his races. His medium border of victory is more than 12.5 lengths, and the colt’s coming away his topper performance. In the Sept. 3 TVG Pacific Classic at Del Mar, he took away on the backstretch and blew his quintet competitors away, winning past 19-and-a-quarter lengths and posting a clip of 1:59.28 for the 1 1/4 miles. That was just now 0.17 seconds off the rails and stakes record.
Flightline has had sextuplet workouts since that romp at Del Mar. The to the highest degree recent put to work was Sabbatum at the Lexington track, and he turned inward a time of 1:00.6 over V furlongs.
It was the fourth-fastest time that daylight come out of the 62 who worked out at that distance.
He’s had a sound calendar week and gotten settled in, and the cartroad is a little similar to Del Mar,” Sadler said after Saturday’s preparation session.
He’ll human face past far his toughest try out inward the marquise case of the two-day title racing series. Flightline has trinity Grade 1 stakes victories. His VII opponents inward the field of force hold won a combined 11 Grade 1 races.
Epicenter, Life Is Good Top Contenders
The s pick on the forenoon rail line is Epicenter, at 5-1. After bitterness disappointments inward the Bluegrass State Derby and Preakness, where he ruined a come together endorsement in both, the Steve Asmussen-trained colt rebounded with a terrifying summer. He won the Grade 2 Jim Dandy and Grade 1 Runhappy Travers to cement himself as the upside 3-year-old colt.
Next is Life is Good, who has quaternity wins inwards quint races this year and 9 inward his 11 calling starts. At 6-1, trainer Lord Todd Pletcher’s 4-year-old colt has won trine straight, including a wire-to-wire win in the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes on Oct. 1 at Aqueduct.
Like Flightline, Life Is Good also ran v furlongs Saturday at 1:00.6.
“He is a superordinate act horse,” Pletcher said. “Today was typical of what we hold seen his whole career.”
Post clip Sat for the Breeders’ Cup Classic is 5:40 pm ET. NBC will broadcast the race.
PostHorseJockeyTrainerMorning-Line1.TaibaMike SmithBob Baffert8-12.Life Is GoodIrad Ortiz, Jr.Todd Pletcher6-13.Happy SaverJohn VelazquezTodd Pletcher30-14.FlightlineFlavien PratJohn Sadler3-55.Hot Rod CharlieTyler GaffalioneDoug O’Neill15-16.EpicenterJoel RosarioSteve Asmussen5-17.OlympiadJunior AlvaradoBill Mott10-18.Rich StrikeSonny LeonEric Reed20-1
Circa Offers Fixed Odds on Classic inwards Vegas
If you’re in Las Vegas this week, Circa Sports has already posted its two-way, fixed-odds market place for the Classic.
Flightline is currently useable at -185 (bet $185 to mesh $100) to win and +150 (bet $100 to sack $150) to lose. Epicenter is +750/-1140, patch Life Is Good’s odds are +800/-1240.
Bob Baffert’s Taiba, who drew the rail, is +1000/-1600. Happy Saver, Pletcher’s indorse accounting entry in the race, is +4000/-6600, and the Doug O’Neill-trained Hot Rod Charlie is uncommitted for +1540/-2640.
Olympiad, trained past Bill Mott, has betting odds of +1400/-2400, and Eric Reed’s Bluegrass State Derby winner Rich Strike is +3400/-5800.
Those who wager inwards the pari-mutuel pools for the Classic and other Breeders’ Cup races on Friday and Sabbatum testament let the benefit of truer payouts due to Kentucky’s unexampled jurisprudence that requires tracks to make up winnings to the penny. Before the jurisprudence was enacted in July, tracks rounded downwardly to the dime for apiece $1 wagered.