Bound For Home: Arcangelo with Javier Castellano up wins the 155th Running of the Belmont Stakes at … [+]
The $28 million Breeders’ Cup race week got truly underway at the gargantuan post position draw in California on October 30, as Arcangelo and his connections found themselves breaking from the rail and rated a somewhat surprising second-favorite in the morning line, at 7-2. He was — significantly or not — absent from the track on Monday, which came as a bit of a surprise and inspired some chatter.
Arguably bigger headline to come out of the event at 7:45 p.m. ET was the fact that Bob Baffert’s Arabian Knight had in fact bested his rival Arcangelo on both counts: At 3-1 in the track’s morning line, he will be breaking comfortably from the far outside, from stall 12 in the Classic’s thirteen-horse field.
But before we get into the ins and outs of that field, and whether the Ushba Tesoro, who seems rather highly thought of by the Santa Anita oddmakers at 4-1, deserves his slot in the morning line, herewith, the post positions and odds for the 40th running of the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
1) Arcangelo, Jena M. Antonucci, Javier J. Castellano, 7-2
2) Zandon, Chad C. Brown, Frankie Dettori 1st, 2023 Woodward G2 12-1
3) White Abarrio, Richard E. Dutrow, Jr., Irad Ortiz, Jr., 4-1
4) Missed The Cut, John W. Sadler, Luis Saez 1st, 30-1
5) Derma Sotogake, Hidetaka Otonashi, Christophe Patrice Lemaire, 20-1
6) Saudi Crown, Brad H. Cox, Florent Geroux, 12-1
7) Clapton, Chad Summers, Tyler Gaffalione, 20-1
8) Ushba Tesoro, Noboru Takagi, Yuga Kawada 1st, 4-1
9) Senor Buscador, Todd W. Fincher, Geovanni Franco 3rd, 30-1
10) Dreamlike, Todd A. Pletcher, Jose L. Ortiz, 30-1
11) Bright Future, Todd A. Pletcher, John Velazquez 1st, 10-1
12) Arabian Knight, Bob Baffert, Flavien Prat, 3-1
13) Proxy, Michael Stidham, Joel Rosario, 12-1