Today’s focus: Rags ($5,500 buy) to riches (Juv Fillies Turf) California Angel
Note: California Angel won a $135,000 maiden race at Kentucky Downs Sept. 8 and Keeneland’s Grade 2 Jessamine
Meet Indiana Grand-based trainer George Leonard
#BC21: Meet California Angel’s trainer George Leonard – YouTube
Isabel Leonard knows odds her husband is bucking
#BC21 California Angel: Isabel Leonard shares her thoughts
California Angel’s owner Chris Walsh of Columbus, Ind.
#BC21 Owner Chris Walsh flying high with California Angel
California Chrome trainer Art Sherman comes for a visit
#BC21: Art Sherman meets California Angel
Also:
Doug O’Neill on Hot Rod Charlie, the Kentucky Derby third-place finisher who was second in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at 94-1. Now he’s 4-1 in the $6 million BC Classic, where he’ll meet last year’s Juv winner Essential Quality along Kentucky Derby first-place finisher Medina Spirit and the leading older horses
Breeders’ Cup Classic: Doug O’Neill on Hot Rod Charlie
Todd Pletcher on Shadwell Farm’s 2021 Kentucky Oaks winner Malathaat (BC Distaff)
Breeders’ Cup Distaff: Todd Pletcher on Ky Oaks winner Malathaat
Kenny McPeek on Tiz the Bomb (winner of Ellis Park maiden race, $500,000 Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile and Keeneland’s G2 Bourbon) and the BC Juvenile Turf. BTW: Kenny plans to have Tiz the Bomb on the Derby Trail next year
#BC21 Juv Turf: Kenny McPeek on Tiz the Bomb 11.4.21
Mark Casse on super-mare Got Stormy (back in Breeders’ Cup Mile after finishing 6th in Kentucky Downs’ $1 million FanDuel Turf Sprint following her second victory in Saratoga’s G1 Fourstardave)
Breeders’ Cup Mile: Mark Casse on fan-favorite Got Stormy – YouTube
Dallas Stewart on the late-running G1 Alcibiades third Sequest (BC Juvenile Fillies)
Virginia media: Sequest won her debut at Colonial Downs, then was fourth in G1 Hopeful at Saratoga before Keeneland’s Alcibiades
#BC21: Dallas Stewart on late-running Sequist in Juvenile Fillies
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