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While this might seem like an obvious target for Europe's best sprinters, though, it is worth recalling that last year's renewal was the 13th since the race was added to the schedule and Glass Slippers was the first European-trained runner to win.
Golden Pal, who won the Juvenile Turf Sprint at Keeneland last year, is the big hope for the homes team. European backers may recall that Wesley Ward's sprinter was a distinct flop when he was sent to York for the Nunthorpe Stakes in August, but he bounced back to form in his next race and is likely to take all the beating if he can get on the pace.
We are heading onto the turf for the next of our Grade One races, the Turf Sprint to be precise, in which Kevin Ryan's Glass Slippers, last year's winner, is joined by her stable companion Emaraaty Ana and also A Case Of You - one for the Joni Mitchell fans there - from Adrian McGuinness's yard in Ireland. Emaraaty Ana arrives fresh, having been rested since his win in the Haydock Sprint Trophy in September, while Glass Slippers and A Case Of You were third and first respectively in the Prix de l'Abbaye at Longchamp last month:
Bob Baffert, Gamine's trainer, is interviewed afterwards.
It wasn't her day today. I could tell she was struggling. It hurts me like my children when they get beat but the winner is a good filly.
A real surprise to kick off proceedings, Gamine could never dominate as she did last year and the writing was on the wall as soon as Ce Ce edged in front in the stretch.
Gamine is fading! Bella Sofia too, it's a big upset, Ce Ce takes the spoils!
Edgeway is close up in third with Ce Ce, Gamine leads them into the straight between horses
Gamine straight into the lead, Bella Sofia half a length behind, 22.31sec for the opening quarter ...
Going into the gates ... and now off and running in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint
Gamine is now 2-5 to get the Del Mar punters off to a flying start. Bella Sofia, who is rated 6lb behind the favourite by the sages at the Timeform organisation, is the only real danger to the favourite according to the betting. She is a Grade One winner, in the Test Stakes at Saratoga in August, and followed up with this success in a four-runner Gallant Bloom Handicap at Belmont Park in late September.
Hello and welcome to the Guardian's live coverage of day two of the Breeders' Cup meeting at Del Mar in southern California, where the question that many racegoers will ask themselves is whether anything on today's nine-race, multi-million dollar card can possibly match Friday's Juvenile Turf when it comes to drama, uncertainty and confusion.
The answer, almost certainly, is no, but that can only be a good thing, as a chorus of boos and jeers from a packed grandstand after a Grade One race is the worst possible look from the Breeders' Cup organisation's point of view. As Charlie Appleby, the trainer of the winner, Modern Games, said afterwards: "For the sport, you hate to see it but the fans are here to have a fun weekend and hopefully they will still enjoy it. We'll have a better day tomorrow."
We certainly should, as the meeting's main card has much to excite and entertain for fans on both sides of the Pond and, perhaps, in Japan too, as the country's long-awaited first winner at the meeting is a distinct possibility. Europe will hope, indeed probably expect, to add to Appleby's success yesterday, with Tarnawa favoured to defend her title in the Turf at 23.40 GMT.
Glass Slippers, another defending champion, is one of three big Anglo-Irish contenders for the Turf Sprint (19.40), while Love and Audarya are lined up for the Filly & Mare Turf (20.59) and Appleby's Space Blues is favourite for the Mile (22.20), a race which also features several more European-trained challengers.
And at the top of the card, there is the Classic, where the presence of Bob Baffert's Medina Spirit, the, er, Kentucky Derby winner*, could lead to some more unwelcome headlines for the Cup committee on Sunday. Medina Spirit is still, officially, the winner of this year's Run For The Roses, despite testing positive for bethamethasone, a banned corticosteroid, a few days later, a shocking situation for the sport in the US and one which seems likely to continue to hang over it for some time to come.
Baffert's filly Gamine - who also features on Baffert's disciplinary record having been DQd from third place in last season's Kentucky Oaks after a positive for betamethasone - is the hot favourite for the first Breeders' Cup race on the card, the Filly & Mare Sprint (19.05).
Away from possible Baffert-related controversy, meanwhile, Loves Only You is Japan's big hope in the Filly & Mare Turf, while American fans in particular will be looking forward to an intriguing renewal of the Distaff at 23.00, with Letruska, Shedaresthedevil, Malathaat and Royal Flag among a closely-matched bunch of leading contenders.
It should also be pointed out that this is the first Breeders' Cup at which the race-day anti-bleeding medication, Lasix, is banned in all 14 races, which can only be a good thing for international racing going forward. Some thoughts about Saturday's main events are here, and there will be previews, tips, results, post-race quotes and more throughout the card as the action unfolds.