Bradley hopes Divisidero gets pace help in Shadwell Turf Mile
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Gunpowder Farms’ Divisidero was reacquainted with Keeneland Thursday morning as he began his local preparations for Saturday’s $1 million Shadwell Turf Mile (G1).
“This is our shot to make it to the Breeders’ Cup,” trainer Buff Bradley said of the two-time Grade 1 winner, a 5-year-old son of Kitten’s Joy. “I just hope there will be some (fast) pace in the race.”
The Shadwell Turf Mile is a “Win and You’re In” race for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) to be run Nov. 4 at Del Mar.
Divisidero overcame a slow pace to win the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic (G1) at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day but has been off the board in his past two starts.
“There has been no pace the last three times he has run,” Bradley said. “He has run his race each time, but there was no pace. He is doing as well as ever and I have complete confidence in him. Julien (Leparoux) has worked him the last three times and said he is as good as ever.”
Divisidero ran here in the spring, finishing second beaten a nose in a 1 1/16-mile allowance race in which there was a fast pace.
“That was a loaded race; a stakes race that passed for an allowance race,” Bradley said of the field that contained multiple stakes winners. “We got what we wanted out of that (for the Turf Classic). We know he likes the course and this should be a fun race for him.”
Source: Keeneland Association
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