In-Depth Analysis: 2024 Breeders' Cup Distaff Race

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00:00Let's start, we're going to look at race number six on the Saturday Breeders' Cup card, and

00:06this is the Breeders' Cup Distaff.

00:08Alexa, you're going to take the first three horses on the inside.

00:11Yeah, the average buyer in here is, the winning buyer is 100.5, so pretty, pretty quick.

00:18But the number one candied from Todd Pletcher's Barn, 15 to 1 morning line, so a bit of a

00:23long shot.

00:24Is a presser closer in here, got third in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Phillies last year,

00:28and since then, she's only managed to win one race that was a stakes, but has run in

00:33four more grade ones, where she's hit the board in three of them.

00:37So I do like her in here.

00:38The number two Torpedo Anna for Kenny McPeak Barn, 4 to 5 morning line favorite.

00:43I don't know about you, but I am extremely excited.

00:47I'm extremely excited to watch this Philly run.

00:51She's the horse to beat.

00:52Her Travers performance is her only loss this year, and she lost by a head to, you know,

00:58one of the best horses in the country.

00:59She went up against the boys in that race, and she was coming at the end.

01:02Oh, you could hear it in the stands when she just didn't get there.

01:05Everybody just kind of shrieked, because everybody was really just rooting for her.

01:08She's tactical, and I think the best strategy in this race will be to send her earlier,

01:16if possible.

01:17You know, idiomatic scratch in here, so I think that...

01:19We actually have three now.

01:20There were two more scratches that just came out, and that were just announced, so I can

01:24save you some work.

01:25Yes.

01:26That Akuda's out.

01:27Okay.

01:28So there you go.

01:30That Akuda's out.

01:31Don't worry about talking about that Akuda next, but we'll get over to Roberto for Alice

01:35Verte, one of the Japanese runner.

01:37I mean, how about the contingent?

01:38They have so many horses in all different races that look live this year.

01:43Do you think this is one of them?

01:44And you can mention the next couple of horses, too.

01:46Yeah.

01:47It is 19 horses representing Japan in these Breeders' Cup, which is a record for them,

01:52and I'm pretty sure it's going to be a record next year.

01:54They're going to bring more horses.

01:55They're going to keep going.

01:56And this one, you know, she's a Japanese invader, obviously.

01:59They never have run on dirt, and the only thing is this thing that she'll help.

02:05That's the only thing that I can see on her favor.

02:08Regarding Sugar Fizz, the number five, she's a winner of four on eight stars, California-based,

02:17but she's 0-4-2 at Del Mar, and both races have been kind of bad races.

02:23She has to step up to defeat this field.

02:27And obviously, we have the number six, which is Regency.

02:31She defeats Idiomatic.

02:32Idiomatic could be a big play in this race.

02:36Chad Brown has won stakes with at least 20 different mares in the last four years, which

02:43is incredible.

02:44And also, why not?

02:46He used to be, or he called himself, you know, the King of Dirt, why not the King of Dirt?

02:53Because all the horses, or most of the horses that Chad Brown brought this year, they're

02:57really good on dirt.

02:58We've got a bunch of that, and we're going to talk about that.

03:01Regency, major player in here.

03:04Honored Delady hopes they go a little quick early on.

03:06She can come closing in here, and once you remove Torpedo Anna, and we say that she's

03:11kind of on a top tier, a lot of the other horses are kind of competitive on speed figures

03:15and stuff.

03:16You might be able to get a little value, especially underneath.

03:18This could be one of those horses that's passing a few.

03:21This New York is scratched, so the eight is out.

03:25Let's take a look at the nine, Producer Rich, because Awesome Results has had, this is an

03:29interesting horse.

03:30You don't probably have a whole lot on the figures and stuff, because this is a horse

03:32that comes from Japan, but this is a horse who has really nice U.S. breeding.

03:37This is a four-year-old daughter of Justify, and this horse actually is seven for seven,

03:42undefeated.

03:43She beat the boys in her first five starts.

03:45I think if Torpedo Anna loses, I think it's because Awesome Results is just really impressive,

03:51and we don't even know how good she might be.

03:53Her trainer, too, sounded so confident talking about this horse.

03:57It was kind of funny.

03:58He just said, yeah, I think Torpedo Anna's our major rival.

04:00I'm not really sure about the rest of them, so he seems really confident coming into this

04:04race with Awesome Results, and then I'll round things out with Shea Evasora, the Argentinian

04:09bred who actually qualified for this race, I think back in May, and was off from May

04:15to September, and when showed back up here in September in the Zenyatta, just didn't

04:19really fire.

04:20So we'll have to see where she stacks up against this sort of level of horses.

04:24So there's the field, horse by horse, for the Distaff.

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