The announcer at Monmouth yesterday called it right...been a muddling season and just glad to have some clarity stamped on the division now.

Lookin @ Lucky No1, Trappe Shot and A Little Warm fighting it out for the no2 slot.

Travers will tell us more in a few weeks.

Connections of Lookin At Lucky were delighted with the conditionof the Breeders' Cup Classic second favourite after he completed his final major workout for the race on Monday.

 
The three-year-old, winner of the Preakness Stakes and Haskell Invitational this season, trailed a workmate by 12 lengths in a six-furlong gallop at Hollywood Park before running on strongly in the home stretch to lead at the finish.


Bob Baffert, who trains Lookin At Lucky for Mike Pegram, told the Daily Racing Form: "I wanted that other horse to be way in front. I wanted something for him to focus on. This was his last major work. Now, we'll play the waiting game."

Lookin At Lucky's jockey Martin Garcia was more effusive about his mount andsaid: "He worked amazing. To ride in that race, and to have a powerful horse, that's great."

Bob Baffert trains Richard Kid who misses the classic. Now i remember reading an article a few days ago and Baffert seemed very dissapointed he won't run. From his comments i think Richards Kid was his better hope, and that Lookin at Lucky faces a big ask which will require big improvement.

I'm only going on what the trainer said. I know he won the west Coast trial for the BC.



"They're passing up a chance to be champion older horse and maybe Horse of the Year," added Baffert, who will be represented by top three-year-old Lookin At Lucky in the Classic.

Lookin At Lucky worked five furlongs in 1min at Hollywood on Tuesday, and his trainer reported him to have come on for his victory in the Indiana Derby on October 2.

"He came out of it better than he went in it," Baffert told the Form. "He's getting stronger and stronger. He'll have to run better than he ever has."

If he's losing the horse for it to be trained in Dubai then he's obviously going to be disappointed. He wasn't good enough last year when he had conditions in his favour, wouldn't have had a chance of finishing in the first 5 this year.

He'll have to run better than he ever has.

That's true of every horse in the field I think.

Ben, i think he could get unlucky again. His best runs have come in smaller fields and even his victory this year in a 12 runner race he came wide and the three horses closest to him in the race have won 1 between them this year. If we get a full field,which looks likely i think he could be toast