Breeders' Cup Classic Picks: Backing Knightsbridge to Win

Last year, Forever Young wins. The Japanese horse finally gets there. This is unique to me, and I'm still learning about the Breeders' Cup and horse racing. Is it normal for a defending champ to come back? Because Forever Young's in this field for the Classic, correct? Correct, yes. Is that normal, where a champ comes back? Uh, sometimes a lot of them now, you know, they're sort of sending them to stud so quickly. So you usually get, you know, some of them run as a three-year-old in the classic and that's it. They're sent out to pasture, um, to do what they need to do to keep the, you know, new horses coming along. Um, but there is some, you know, some horses that just run until they're sort of six or seven, um, depending on their stud value and things like that. And then. Depending on the owners as well, you know, some people just want to actually race their horses when they have a really good horse. And Forever Young's been all over the place racing all around the world. So, you know, they're more of a racing crew than a sort of send it out to stud. All right, we're not tipping your hand entirely. We have Sovereignty as part of this field. We have Golden Tempo part of this field, Forever Young part of this field. The odds are short on those three horses. Are we going long shot, or are we going to most likely see a champ out of that three group? So I don't, I'm not using any of those three on the top of my ticket, although Sovereignty I will use in a Bill Mott Exacta with Knightsbridge, which is the horse at the price currently that I'm looking at, and Magnitude's the other horse that I don't mind as well. Golden Tempo, obviously my Kentucky Derby tip and winner. Thank And then won the bone one as well. I don't know if he'll get the pace that he needs for this race. And he'll probably be too short for me to get involved in. So right now I'm looking at Knightsbridge around four and a half, five to one as a potential one to use in that spot. you. All right. I know contest plays might be a bit different than bets. Anything you want to recommend to people for the classic? Is there a play you would say a trifecta or some way of approaching the race coming up? Yeah, so I'm kind of potting Forever Young. A great horse and whatnot, but I'm going against him and a little bit against Sovereignty as well. So, you know, I'm keeping those two out of it to sort of on the second or third part of the ticket. But the thing about the Breeders' Cup, the payouts, exactors, trifectas, are huge, even when favourites win. So, you know, I get into trouble because I like my long shots.