On a sparkling Kentucky fall afternoon, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stood in a Breeders' Cup winner's circle in the shrine of horse racing and didn't pause to proclaim that his metropolis can do better by staging the event routinely at Santa Anita.
It's what politicians do.
Chris Quinn, Santa Anita's vice president of sales and marketing, said that "politically" it might be best not to interrupt negotiating momentum to place the 2013 Breeders' Cup at Belmont Park in New York, but the Santa Anita contingent is nonetheless pushing Breeders' Cup officials to make the Arcadia track the event's home every other year starting next year.
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