2011 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G2)

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Date/Track:
11/5/2011, Churchill Downs
Post Time:
3:21 PM ET
Distance:
5 f (Turf)
Age/Sex:
3+ M
Time:
0:56.48

Super Screener Winning Criteria - Turf Sprint

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  • Rule #1 - Left Behind - Outside posts 12 through 14 should be discounted for the win.
  • Rule #3 - Home Turf Bias - Each of the 3 winners accumulated exceptional turf sprint records at the host track.   
  • Rule #9 - The 3/7 Defense -  In 3 runnings, all 9 horses to hit the board were aged 4, 5 or 6.
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What the Nation is saying about the 2011 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G2)...

Regally Ready lived up to his top billing with a sharp prominent throughout triumph in the BC Turf Sprint at Churchill Downs on Saturday. The Steve Asmussen trainee was all over longshot speedster Rapport from the opening bell and took over when that one began to fade shortly after three furlongs. R...Read More
  • winwinwin · I find it very interesting that Regally Ready , Country Day, and Perfect Officer all came out of the Turf Monster race at Philly . Regally also wins on big days like Derby day last May · 204 days ago ·
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Regally Ready dominates BC Turf Sprint.   
Saturday's wide open Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint includes a full field of fourteen headed by defending champion Chamberlain Bridge. Chamberlain Bridge will break from post 14 for trainer Bret Calhoun and the 7-year-old gelding is 4-for-6 over the Churchill Downs weeds. He has dropped four straight but...Read More
Turf Sprint Trifecta: 13 Caracortado, 8 Regally Ready, 3 Broken Dreams
Caracortado is 4-1 from the #13 hole in the BC Turf Sprint; Regally Ready is 3-1.
  • driveon · I just pitched Scarface and Chamberlain Bridge into Lake Ontario. No way either wins at 5F from way out there. I don't mind havelock from the 10-hole @ 20/1 or so, thiough. He's always overlooked. · 210 days ago ·
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Caracortado win this easy
Oh, what might have been. Today at Laurel Park, amidst a sea of slop, the right horse won, but it was in the wrong race. As Ben’s Cat effortlessly strode away from five foes to win the $75,000 Laurel Dash Stakes all I could think was that he should be running instead in the $1,000,000 Breeders’ Cup ...Read More
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  • arazi · szulcc - I agree. Where's the fun in winning a $75k race in the slop? After winning all these races, don't they sort of "owe it" to the horse to see what he can do? He's run like champion - he deserves the shot. · 211 days ago ·
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  • ScottDick · Great article, sad story. Horse deserved a chance to prove on a national stage how good he is. Sad for his fans that he didn't get that chance. · 211 days ago ·
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Chamberlain Bridge, winner of last year’s Grade II Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on the Matt Winn Turf Course, breezed four furlongs around the “dogs” in :50.60 Saturday in preparation to defend his crown in the Turf Sprint next weekend. “He went really well and that was exactly what we wanted,” trainer...Read More
Glen Hill Farm’s homebred Broken Dreams, pre-entered in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G2), turned in her second work at Keeneland on Thursday when she breezed five furlongs in a bullet :59.80. Clockers caught Broken Dreams galloping out in 1:14.20.   Tom Proctor trains Broken Dreams, a 5-year-...Read More
Tomorrow at this time we will celebrate the approximately 200 horses that are pre-entered for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. Today, I will lament over a horse that will not be on the list. Ben’s Cat has been 2011’s best turf sprinter in the nation, bar none, yet for some reason his connectio...Read More
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  • Winplacsho · I obviously what type of financial situations the owners are in, but this is real disappointing. Isn't it the idea to go to the pinnacle of the sport when you have a horse that can get you there? Also, Ben's Cat has already earned his supplemental fee. Makes me wonder if they're too cheap to buy him carrots after a victory. · 216 days ago ·
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  • bobbeaux · In the world of thoroughbred racing, a $100k is not big bucks. I'm surprised someone did not step up to make this happen. I can only assume (I surely have no knowledge of the situation) that investors did not like the chances; or King Leatherbury is not an easy guy with whom to strike a business deal. · 215 days ago ·
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I have been pondering what horse I am going to the Breeder’s Cup to see. Last year, I couldn’t decide who I was going to see because I was excited about so many. I was going to see Blame, Uncle Mo, Awesome Feather, Blind Luck and Chamberlain Bridge. This year, things are changing so quickly I don’t ...Read More
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  • Winplacsho · Rumor has it Chamberlain Bridge is back to his old self & working like a champ · 216 days ago ·
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  • RaTalk_Girl · Love to hear that winplacsho...I really like this horse. · 216 days ago ·
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No BC Turf Sprint for Ben's Cat. He will run in the Laurel Turf Dash on Oct 29 instead.    
Unzip Me is not running in the BC Turf Sprint. Instead, she will be entered in the Cal Cup Distaff on Oct 29 at Santa Anita.   
Laurel Park-based Ben's Cat, winner of the $356,000 Turf Monster Handicap (gr. IIIT)) on Labor Day at Parx Racing, is still on the fence for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (gr. IIT) at Churchill Downs..Though the 5-year-old earned an automatic bid into the race, he s not Breeders’ Cup nomi...Read More
Rags-to-riches California-bred Caracortado, prepping for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5, worked five furlongs on Santa Anita’s main track Sunday in a minute flat under regular rider Joe Talamo. Caracortado worked in company with Wild Revenge, who was clocked in 1:02.40 un...Read More
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  • Mary Z. · I wondered why too. Shouldn't he go for the Mile? But, check out his win on 11/11/10. aoc on turf at HP , 6f in 1:07.79 with Amazombie third. If he can get back to closing at a shorter distance than he's run lately, why not? The other cali turf sprinter, California Flag would be my pick if on the downhill course at SA, but not at CD. In the Mile, Caracortado would be up against the champ, Goldikova, and blazing fast so long as he doesn't burn out, Sidney's Candy. · 217 days ago ·
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  • keeneland dan · turn backs win this race.....a closer will win it....speed always backs up at Church 5f, they will be flying early to set it up like last yr. · 216 days ago ·
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Silverton Hill LLC’s Havelock, winner of the Woodford (GIII) at Keeneland in his most recent start, worked five furlongs in 1:05.80 shortly after the track opened at 6 o’clock Sunday morning. The work was the 44th fastest of 47 at the distance but trainer Darrin Miller was not looking for any bullet...Read More
holiday for kitten, cute name, fast horse
As racing resumed at picturesque Keeneland Race Course, more Breeders’ Cup prep races were added to those being contested at Belmont and Santa Anita Park. Here are some thoughts and conclusions that I took away from last weekend’s coast-to-coast action. Read More
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  • ahnuckolsjr · It's kind of funny, but I raised 2 of the two year-old fillies under consideration for this year's Juvenile Fillies race, Miss Netta and Heart of Destiny. They were both very interesting fillies to watch grow up and work with every day. Miss Netta was very opinionated and would let you know that she, not you, was going to determine what she did and did not do. I had the privilege of selling her at Saratoga to Everett Dobson and his Cheyenne Racing Stable. Randy Bradshaw told me that she still has her ways and that you have to convince her that what you want her to do was her idea first. She is really a neat filly, one of the nicest I've ever been around. Heart of Destiny, who I still own with my old college classmate, Jamie Greene, was a different type of filly. She was always a little taller than her contemporaries and just kind of looked through you as if to say "I see things way beyond you!" She was a real competitor in the 30 acre pasture she and Miss Netta played in. I used to love to look out my office window and watch them run and play in their field. Heart of Destiny would always go to the lead and when they would toyn and head back in a different direction, she would always go back to the front. Another filly that grew up with these two was second to Samolia Lemonade in her 1st start. Her name is Conquesta, an Empire Maker filly. Given the company that she was competing with she may be fun to watch as she competes for Mr. Marc Keller. · 224 days ago ·
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  • ahnuckolsjr · It's kind of funny, but I raised 2 of the two year-old fillies under consideration for this year's Juvenile Fillies race, Miss Netta and Heart of Destiny. They were both very interesting fillies to watch grow up and work with every day. Miss Netta was very opinionated and would let you know that she, not you, was going to determine what she did and did not do. I had the privilege of selling her at Saratoga to Everett Dobson and his Cheyenne Racing Stable. Randy Bradshaw told me that she still has her ways and that you have to convince her that what you want her to do was her idea first. She is really a neat filly, one of the nicest I've ever been around. Heart of Destiny, who I still own with my old college classmate, Jamie Greene, was a different type of filly. She was always a little taller than her contemporaries and just kind of looked through you as if to say "I see things way beyond you!" She was a real competitor in the 30 acre pasture she and Miss Netta played in. I used to love to look out my office window and watch them run and play in their field. Heart of Destiny would always go to the lead and when they would turn and head back in a different direction, she would always go back to the front. Another filly that grew up with these two was second to Somali Lemonade in her 1st start. Her name is Conquesta, an Empire Maker filly. Given the company that she was competing with she may be fun to watch as she competes for Mr. Marc Keller. · 224 days ago ·
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Trainer Wesley Ward said Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s homebred Holiday for Kitten was “fantastic” the morning after she defeated 11 older rivals to win the Thoroughbred Club of America (G2) at odds of 18-1. With the victory, the 3-year-old Kitten’s Joy filly earned a spot in the starting gate for the Sent...Read More
The Breeders' Cup World Championships are on the horizon, but not all the stakes winners around are certain to get there. One such horse is Ben's Cat who is bred, owned and trained by Maryland legend King Leatherbury.See, the five-year-old won the Turf Monster Handicap on Labor Day at Parx Racing w...Read More

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