The second half of a 3-year-old racehorse’s season can produce surprises. Sometimes, a 3-year-old coming out of the Triple Crown will run out of steam and other times a new sophomore will step forward and announce his presence with authority like “Nuke” LaLoosh in the classic baseball movie “Bull Durham.”
If it all works out over the next five weeks, the Nov. 1 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic will serve as Round 3 in the epic rivalry between the 3-year-old stars Sovereignty and Journalism.
With the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar drawing ever closer, Tom Pedulla offers takeaways from five Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” Challenge Series races from this weekend that will help shape the talent-laden fields at the season-culminating event.
Coming off an eight-month layoff between races, it would have been fair to wonder how Imagination would perform in his return to competition at Santa Anita Park Sept. 28.
