BY BROCK SHERIDAN
Florida-bred Arthur’s Ride, who was fifth as the odds-on favorite in Sunday’s Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup won by Highland Falls at Saratoga Race Course, will train up to a scheduled start in the $7 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic (Grade 1) according to a report in Daily Racing Form.
Trained by Bill Mott for Glassman Racing, Arthur’s Ride was bred in Florida by Helen and Joseph Barbazon and Tapit Syndicate. He earned a fees-paid, “Win and Your In” invitation to this year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic with his two-and-a-quarter-length victory in the Grade 1 Whitney at Saratoga on Aug. 3.
Mott told Daily Racing Form’s David Grening that he believes Arthur’s Ride will benefit from having nine weeks to train into the Classic that will this year be run at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club on Nov. 2.
“I ran him back in four weeks, I knew there was a risk in doing that,” Mott said to Grening. “I didn’t want to wait to the Woodward [on Sept. 28] and have him run too big a race and then have to come back [in five weeks].”
Arthur’s Ride is by Tapit out of Points of Grace, by Point Given and has won half of his four career starts with two seconds with earnings of $804,955.
