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Triple Crown winner American Pharoah and two-time Eclipse award winner Beholder are among the horses that have been pre-entered in the $5,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I), scheduled to be held on October 31st at Keeneland.
They will be joined in a small but talented field by eight other horses, including 2014 Belmont Stakes (gr. I) and two-time Jockey Club Gold Cup (gr. I) winner Tonalist, QIPCO 2,000 Guineas (Eng-I) winner Gleneagles, and Metropolitan Handicap (gr. I) winner Honor Code.
The complete list of pre-entries is as follows:
Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) Pre-Entries
American Pharoah
Beholder
Effinex
Frosted
Gleneagles
Keen Ice
Hard Aces
Honor Code
Smooth Roller
Tonalist
Note: Beholder has been cross-entered in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (gr. I), but has the Classic listed as her first preference.
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