RUIDOSO DOWNS, NM—OCTOBER 27, 2014—Joining the Halloween ghosts and goblins at Billy The Kid Casino, next to Ruidoso Downs Race Track, will be all the simulcast action from the Breeders’ Cup World Championship from Santa Anita Park.

The Breeders’ Cup World Championships will be held on Friday with a 12:25 p.m. (mdt) and Saturday with a 11:15 a.m. (mdt) first post time for all the racing action from Santa Anita.

On Friday night is the Billy The Kid Spook-tacular Halloween Bash. There will be costume contests with $500 in cash prizes and Billy’s Haunted House Punch Out. DJ Pete starts his show at 7 p.m. in Billy’s Sports Bar and Grill and there will be screamin’ drink specials.

The Breeders’ Cup is divided into two days. On Friday, the main event is the Grade 1, $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff and highlighting the nine Breeders’ Cup stakes on Saturday is the Grade 1, $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic.

There will be a special double bet between the Breeders’ Cup Distaff and the Breeders’ Cup Classic offered at Billy’s. There will also be wagering available on Friday for the entire Saturday card from Santa Anita. Items will be given away throughout the day on Saturday.

The one-and-one-eighth mile Breeders’ Cup Distaff is expected to showcase Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC’s three-year-old Untapable. She has won five of six starts this year with three Grade 1 wins and $1,896,725 in earnings. She won the Mother Goose stakes by nearly 10 lengths, the Kentucky Oaks by four-and-one-half lengths and defeated older mares by one length in the Cotillion as the 1-2 favorite in her latest start.

Untapable’s only 2014 defeat came in the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational when she raced against the boys.

The three-year-olds Shared Belief and Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome are expected to have their showdown with the Horse of the Year title possibly on the line in the one-and-one-quarter mile Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Shared Belief is undefeated for an ownership group that includes syndicated radio sports-talk host Jim Rome. The Candy Ride son is seven-for-seven with $1,552,200 in earnings. His latest two wins have come in Grade 1 stakes: the Pacific Classic at Del Mar and the Awesome Again at Santa Anita.

California Chrome, an earner of more than $3.3 million, scored successive Grade 1 wins in the Santa Anita Derby, Kentucky Derby and the Preakness before finishing fourth in the Belmont Stakes. He was rested by trainer Art Sherman for more than three months and then finished sixth as the odds-on favorite in the Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby, his latest start onSeptember 20.

Bayern should set the pace in the Breeders’ Cup Classic and will be dangerous if he is not seriously challenged early in the race. He won the Pennsylvania Derby in gate-to-wire fashion and used the same tactics to win the Haskell Invitational by more than seven lengths.

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