D. Wayne Lukas, a winner of a record 18 Breeders’ Cup races, is
hoping he gets a chance to add to that number with Double Eagle Ranch
and Buena Suerte Equine’s Mine That Bird,
winner of the 2009 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I). He
is pointing the 4-year-old to the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (gr. I) on
Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs, though he is not confident the gelding will
draw in.
“I don’t think he will get in but he has done very well since he got back here from Saratoga,” Lukas said.
Lukas said Mike Smith would have the mount on Mine That Bird.
Mine That Bird has been with Lukas
for five months and had three starts in 2010, a failed comeback race on
the turf in the Firecracker Handicap (gr. IIT) in July and two
off-the-board finishes at Saratoga in the Whitney (gr. I) and Woodward
(gr. I).
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