Breeders Cup Update I

With the major meeting in the States just over a couple of weeks away the big guns are starting to finalise plans for one of the best meetings of the year.
Current 2-1 favourite for the Breeders Cup Turf Workforce is not guaranteed to be making the trip across the pond for the big one on 6th November. Teddy Grimthorpe, Khalid Abdullah's racing manager, has stated that ‘there's no decision yet.’
Aidan O'Brien has also warned that Fame And Glory ‘might be finished for the season’ and as such his participation in the Breeders Cup Turf is also doubtful.
The Khalid Abdullah operation should be represented by Midday in the Filly & Mare Turf and Henry Cecil posted an upbeat report on his website ‘Midday is on track for her attempt at back-to-back wins in the Breeders' Cup. I am very pleased with her and she is a real joy to have. I owe her so much towards the stable's revival and upsurge.’ The four-year-old filly has been in tremendous form winning three Group Ones in the Nassau Stakes, Yorkshire Oaks and Prix Vermeille in her last three outings and is generally a shade odds-on to repeat her victory of last year.
Unbeaten star mare Zenyatta will defend her Breeders Cup Classic crown with trainer John Shirreffs reportedly telling the gathered press corps at Keeneland recently that ‘she is as good or better than she was last year.’ The mare will be attempting to stretch her unbeaten run to twenty races. A possible fly in the ointment for the mare is the fact that the Classic will be run on dirt at Churchill Downs, all but two of her victories have come on synthetic tracks.