Appleby sets Breeders' Cup team for Godolphin U.K.

British trainer Charlie Appleby, who on Wednesday told U.K-based Racing TV he would ship three Godolphin horses to Del Mar for the Breeders' Cup,  is now planning to have up to six runners at the World Championships on Nov. 5-6.

The three Godolphin homebreds originally named by Appleby to Racing TV  were Yibir in the Turf and Modern Games and Albahr in the Juvenile Turf. However, on Thursday he told Daily Racing Form Godolphin's Breeders' Cup team is likely to also include Space Blues and Master of the Seas in the Mile and Walton Street in the Turf. 

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Space Blues became the early favorite for the Mile after winning the Prix de la Forêt (G1) on Arc day, while Master of the Seas is a Group 3 winner who was second in the Two Thousand Guineas this spring. As for Walton Street, he won last month's Canadian International (G1) at Woodbine in his U.S. bow. 

Modern Games, the 3-1 favorite for the Juvenile Turf in futures odds from Costa Rica-based Bovada, is 3-for-5 this year. Last out, he won the Group 3 Somerville Stakes at Newmarket. "I think he'll be suited around there," Appleby told Racing TV. "He's got natural pace, quick ground will suit him."

Albahr is the second choice in futures at 4-1. He is 4-for-5, winning the Summer Stakes (G1), a "win and you're in" event, at Woodbine last out in August. "He might not be the best horse in the race, but he's got an abundance of experience going into it, and also I just think he's one of those characters he loves the hustle and bustle of it all around."

Three-year-old Yibir is 10-1 in futures odds for the Turf after posting a 7: 3-1-1 record this year, with a last-out victory in the black-type Jockey Club Derby Invitational at Belmont.