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Breeders’ Cups are always a bit more interesting when underdogs from smaller circuits join the mix, and both slam (Checkmark) and Tyler tribe (Sharp Azteca) has the potential to draw unsurpassed attention to their respective breeding programs in New Mexico and Iowa when they enter the championships on November 4 and 5.

In the entire history of the Breeders’ Cup dating back to 1984 – out of a total of 4,344 horses – those two states account for only one starting state each.

Slammed will represent New Mexico, and you can tell that she’s supposed to have a better chance in her race, the GI Breeders’ Cup Filly and the Mare Sprint. After bursting at Del Mar this summer, she’s proven even more at the national level, and she also owns a recent sharp win over the Keeneland surface, won a Breeders ‘Cup landing with a GII Thoroughbred Club of America S. victory on October 8.

But figuratively, Slammed must overcome the odd specter that exists from the only other Land of Enchantment bred to give Breeders’ Cup: Ricks Natural Star, who started at the 1996 GI Turf is rated as one of the most fascinating oddities incidentally in the history of the series.

As Andrew Beyer wrote in Washington Post previewing that year’s championship, “On a morning when the best horses in the world were in the Breeders’ Cup on Saturday, the main object of attention at Woodbine Racecourse was a hopeless 7-year-old boy from the New Mexico…. In the view of many at Woodbine, [Ricks Natural Star] is mocking the sport’s biggest event. For others, this strange venture is the epitome of the game’s romance. “

When gelding’s optimistic owner and trainer, William Livingston, took out a loan and submitted a surprise $40,000 to join his one and only racehorse with racers top of the planet, Breeders’ Cup officials were both appalled and confused. This was an era before the current stricter testing standards and more discerning veterinary oversight, and to say the entry was out of their control would be an understatement: Ricks Natural Star hasn’t raced in over a year and hasn’t won a race in three years, since betting $3,500 on Sunland park claimants.

Livingston, a veterinarian from New Mexico who claims to treat everything from “parakeets to elephants,” only received his trainer license shortly before the Breeders’ Cup, and he told media that he adapted Ricks Natural Star by driving with him on a ranch in a pickup truck.

Livingston then drove the gel to Canada in a one-horse trailer, keeping his Turf participant in a makeshift barn in the motel parking lot when he stopped for the night. Announced around the same time by Breeders’ Cup officials that Ricks Natural Star was missing an announced required exercise that could keep him from starting, Livingston made a side trip to Remington Park in Oklahoma so that the gel could stretch his legs in six spades leisurely in 1:21.46.

There are cross-border difficulties getting to Canada, and Livingston arrives without the proper gear and gear, but he’s happy to show Ricks Natural Star, even allowing viewers to climb onto the top of the gelding’s back to have the opportunity to take pictures. This is Breeders’ Cup that will feature the mighty Cigar’s final race (he will finish third in the GI Classic), but all pre-event attention has been on Ricks Natural Star, with Livingston insisting he will win at Turf.

Local rider Lisa McFarland has been recruited (or possibly drawn a short straw) from the local equestrian colony to be the pilot for Ricks Natural Star, and if her strategy is just to let him run free do then stay away from everyone else, she did it with precision. High on the 56-1 bet, the popular play that forced the pace for a half-mile was then eased back across the court, well ahead of winner Pilsudski.

Ricks Natural Star started again a few months later in New Mexico for $7,500 (Friday, with the rating caller’s comment “showing nothing”), but was declared out of the game. raced by new connections just to get him to retire.

Opposite, The 2 year old Iowa Tyler’s Tribe bred undefeatedwho has never topped while winning five dirt road races with a total of 59 3/4 length, is the target for the GI Juvenile Turf Sprint.

Tyler’s Tribe will offer a bit of “undefeated charm” when appearing at his Breeders’ Cup (his relationships are opting for the pitch for the first time rather than extending to two innings compared to the others). nothing looms like a GI Juvenile pitch deep in the ground). But his Iowa roots don’t come with any of the same outlandish backstory as his New Mexico counterpart. The only previously bred Iowa in the Breeders’ Cup was Topper T (Bellamy Road), who finished eighth in the 2018 GI Juvenile.

The last area of ​​athletics won 200 matches

With a pair of wins at Remington on Saturday night, End Zone Athletics, the steady name for the horses owned by trainer Karl Broberg, quietly hit the 200-win mark of the year – once again.

End Zone, which operates at multiple races throughout the South and Midwest, is on track to lead the continent to win as owner, as it has been every year since 2016.

For the 2020 pandemic, when Broberg’s outfit “won only” 165 races, End Zone has now hit 200 wins per season since 2017.

Even more impressive, consider the angle that in that entire timeframe, only one other owner has achieved 200 wins in a single season (Loooch Racing Stables in 2018).

In the North American coach rankings, Broberg is currently second for the year in terms of wins. He was the continent’s most winning coach by that metric between 2014-19 and second in wins in 2013, 2020 and 2021.

No Walk in the Park for ‘Beverly’

Beverly Park (Munnings) was scared off winning his 12th race of the year on Saturday at Keeneland. But the attempt for third place may be more gritty than any of the 11 wins so far this year by the winning horse in North America in 2022.

Facing the company’s $20,000 starter allowance for the second time in a row after eating mostly with a rival with a $5,000 starter allowance in the first part of the season, the 5-year-old was forced to question with racer Rafael Bejarano while widest in a four-way speedfight, knocking out those three opponents with the fourth column, leading all the way to the eighth, then unable to withstand a late pick-up rally- piece by piece from a closer rally.

Beverly Park, who runs for owner/trainer Norman Lynn Cash (The Stables Built), still has three wins over his next closest competitor, Exit Right (Effinex), who ran Friday and last in the $5,000/option claimant starting prize at Delaware Park on Friday.

No North American thoroughbred has won more than 12 races over the course of a calendar year since 2011.

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