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Breeders’ Cup Classic 2021: Odds, Best Bets, And Essential Quality’s Battle With Medina Spirit

 


Reproducers' Cup Classic 2021: Odds, Best Bets, And Essential Quality's Battle With Medina Spirit 

The 2021 Breeders' Cup coordinators are doing their darn best, as the heavenly end of the week's $31 million in handbags, to bring both this series and the game on the loose back to the front, regardless of the crude of the second year of the pandemic. The Classic brings us a remarkable splendid nosegay of top picks in Medina Spirit, whose strong Derby win and resulting drug adversities in a real sense shook the game out of sorts this mid year, and his adversary Essential Quality. Fundamental Quality's weighty most loved status in the Class of 2021 was usurped by as a matter of fact Medina Spirit in the Derby before Essential Quality recovered his balance to take the Belmont. 

Those two top picks have some Triple Crown priors, is the point, and that implies all of hustling is expecting to see those priors worked out this evening at Del Mar. That, notwithstanding the $6 million handbag for the Classic, is the thing that is in question for the main two top picks. All Breeders' Cup Classics are by definition huge. This one is large huge. 

Maybe it's the size of the handbags joined with that additional energy that the business, the actual raisers, bring to the day, however any Breeders' Cup race day has a renowned method of making every one of the sharp inquiries regarding each competitor in each race significantly more honed. Yet, before we bring in our occupant Kentucky horseman, the Bluegrass Wise Man ™, who is trackside at Del Mar this year, to dive into the filigree of exactly how Hot Rod Charlie could wreck Medina Spirit's arrangements for Essential Quality — or EQ's arrangements for Medina Spirit — here for reference are the post positions and the morning line, which we'll refresh in this space with live chances as the Del Mar opens and the cash begins to talk. 

Nota bene: Post time at Del Mar is at 8:40 p.m. EDT and will be carried on NBC. 

(Post Position, Horse, Trainer, Jockey, Morning Line) 

1. Tripoli, John Sadler, Irad Ortiz Jr., 15-1 

2. Express Train, John Shirreffs, Victor Espinoza, 20-1 

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3. Dragster Charlie, Doug O'Neill, Flavien Prat, 4-1 

4. Fundamental Quality, Brad Cox, Luis Saez, 3-1 

5. Knicks Go, Brad Cox, Joel Rosario, 5-2 

6. Craftsmanship Collector, Bill Mott, Mike Smith, 8-1

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