“Hopefully, he breaks clean and gets out there. “I didn’t really want to be there,” Brown said. The undefeated colt drew the rail in the 12-horse field. The early favorite is 9-5 shot Jack Christopher, trained by Chad Brown and ridden by Jose Ortiz. I never pay attention to the odds.”įriday’s card is topped by the $2 million Juvenile, whose winner is tabbed as the horse to watch heading into next year’s Kentucky Derby. His wife and stablehand, Isabel, said, “We always come to win. “I have lots of confidence in my horse,” Leonard said. Pizza Bianca, owned and bred by celebrity chef Bobby Flay, is the early 5-1 favorite in the Juvenile Fillies Turf.Ĭalifornia Angel, at 8-1 odds, drew the far outside post in the field of 14. “I always feel I never work a day in my life when I do what I enjoy.” “You got to love it because there’s plenty other things you can do to make a lot more money,” he said of his chosen profession. Unlike most of the high-profile trainers and deep-pocketed owners at the Breeders’ Cup, Leonard stocks his stalls with claimers, horses he buys out of races featuring modest purses. The son of a trainer, he struck out in 1991 and opened his own stable.
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