Street Sense vs Hard Spun at the Kentucky Cup Classic
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Street Sense trainer, Carl Nafzger, announced that Street Sense have his final$prep for the 2007 Breeders’ Cup in the Kentucky Cup Classic at Turfway Park. Hard Spun and Street Sense will meet again at the Grade 2 Kentucky Cup Classic this Saturday.
Several major factors surrounding the Kentucky Cup Classic betting seem to favor Hard Spun, and the colt’s trainer, Larry Jones, is keenly aware of them.
Turfway Park features a Polytrack surface on which Street Sense is yet to win a race. This does not worry Nafzger as Street Sense’s two biggest victories - in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Kentucky Derby – came after his two Polytrack starts.
Hard Spun was impressive in his March 24 Lane’s End triumph on Polytrack.
This has been an outstanding year for Hard Spun. A resounding victory in the Lane’s End Stakes at Turfway Park marked him as a major contender for the Kentucky Derby, in which he ran a huge race to finish second. And after running third the Preakness, fourth in the Belmont, and second in the Haskell, the colt returned last month to win the first Grade 1 race of his career, the Aug. 25 King’s Bishop Stakes at Saratoga.
And there’s more. With Hard Spun coming off a seven-furlong win, and Street Sense winning the 1 1/4-mile Travers, the 1 1/8-mile distance of the KC Classic would seem better suited to Hard Spun and his speed. And perhaps most notable is this: Carl Nafzger, the trainer of Street Sense, is famous for using a race such as this toward a more important goal, which happens to be the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Oct. 27 at Monmouth Park.
Odds To Win 2007 Breeders’ Cup Classic
Any Given Saturday 6/1
Curlin 8/1
Lawyer Ron 7/2
Premium Tap 7/1
Street Sense 6/1
Nobiz Like Shobiz 25/1
Discreet Cat 20/1
Grasshopper 30/1
Hard Spun 40/1
Lava Man 40/1
Bodog Breeders’ Cup Classic Odds and Futures
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