This year’s champion racehorses from the US and Europe may dominate Saturday night’s Breeders’ Cup card at KeenelandHe may be the first horse to win the US Triple Crown for 37 years,not to mention the top-rated horse on the planet, but, and according to the betting at least,American Pharoah (9.35) still has something to prove as he steps onto a track for the final time at Keeneland in Kentucky on Saturday. There are bookmakers in Europe willing to lay him at even money for the Breeders’ Cup Classic, the most valuable and prestitigous event at the meeting. The market sees the race as a coin toss that could arrive down either way.
This is, and in part,because American Pharoah was beaten final time out, when a sustained duel for the lead in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga left him unable to resist the late charge of Keen Ice. But the favourite’s price also reflects the fact that, or even at this advanced stage of his career,all that can be said with any certainty is that he has been the best three-year-venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) in the States this year by some distance.
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Source: theguardian.com