Classy trio top cup list
NZPA-Reuter Hallandale, Florida The top United States colt, Easy Goer, the unbeaten English miler, Zilzal, and French-based Behara head a list of 83 horses named on Wednesday to run at tomorrow’s SUSIO million ($NZ17.25 million) Breeders’ Cup meeting. Easy Goer, a top contender for North American Horse of the Year honours after eight wins from 10 starts this year, was made a 6-5 favourite among eight United States entries after drawing the inside post in the SUS 3 million Classic, a 2000 m race on dirt that is the world’s richest single race. His main challenge is expected to come from Sunday Silence, the 2-1 second favourite. He upset Easy Goer in the Kentucky Derby and beat him by a nose in the Preakness Stakes. In their last duel in June, Easy Goer got his revenge with an eightlength romp in the Belmont Stakes to spoil Sunday Silence’s bid for the Triple Crown. Easy Goer’s career purses total SUS3.B6 million, fifth on the alltime list, while Sunday Silence’s $U53.25 million puts him in ninth place. Zilzal, an unbeaten three-year-old son of Nureyev trained by England’s Michael Stoute, was installed a 9-5 favourite m the SUSI million Mile after drawing the barrier No. 10 in the field of 13. The British-bred Ameri-can-based handicap horse Steinlen, second favourite at 4-1, drew the number two gate. The French-based Behara, an Irish-bred filly owned by the Aga Khan which was second in the Prix de I’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on October 8, leads the European contingent for the SUS2 million Turf, a 3400 m event in which the American handicap horse, El Senior, is a slight 3-1 favourite.
The Mile, run on the grass, has historically been dominated by European runners and was won the last two years by. the brilliant French-based miler Miesque, which was retired after the 1988 victory at Kentucky’s Churchill Downs.
Zilzal’s string of wins in five career starts earned $U5647,310 for owner Sheikh Mana Al Maktoum, including a three-length victory in the September 30 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at his last outing
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