RUIDOSO DOWNS, NM—OCTOBER 29, 2018—Full wagering on Friday and Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships from Churchill Downs will be offered at Ruidoso Downs with Hronis Racing LLC’s Accelerate the 5/2 morning-line favorite in the $6-million Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Friday’s card, with a 10:55 a.m. first post time, is headed by the new Future Star program that consists of all two-year-old stakes. Saturday is the rest of the Breeders’ Cup program — with $30-million in total purse money — headed by the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

There is a special 8:45 a.m. first post time on Saturday morning at Ruidoso Downs.

Also, there is advance wagering on the entire Saturday program on Friday at Ruidoso Downs. Food and drink specials will be offered.

There will be three doubles from Breeders’ Cup races on Friday to Breeders’ Cup stakes on Saturday. The doubles feature a double from the $2-million Sentient Jet Juvenile to the Classic.

Accelerate is bred by Mike Abraham of Albuquerque. The New Mexico native has raced thoroughbreds and quarter horses on the New Mexico circuit for decades. He has thoroughbred and quarter horse broodmares in New Mexico and has additional thoroughbred mares, including Accelerate’s dam Issues, in Kentucky. He bought Issues for $25,000 in 2011 and sold Accelerate for $380,000 as a yearling.

A son of Lookin At Lucky, Accelerate has earned nearly $2.5-million and is riding a three-race winning streak coming into his expected start in the Classic. The six-year-old comes off Grade 1 wins in the Gold Cup at Santa Anita, The Pacific Classic and the Awesome Again Stakes. He won the Pacific Classic by 12-and-one-half lengths.

Accelerate starts from the outside post position in the 14-horse field with Joel Rosario riding.

Catholic Boy challenges Accelerate after also winning three consecutive races. He won two graded stakes on the turf at Belmont Park and then took the Grade 1 Travers Stakes on the dirt at Saratoga in August, his most recent start.

Javier Castellano is aboard Catholic Boy for trainer Jonaton Thomas. They drew the third berth in the starting gate.

Trainer Bob Baffert, winner of three of the past four Classics, saddles the pair of West Coast and McKinzie.

West Coast was second in the $10-million Dubai World Cup in March and then rested until September when he was second to Accelerate in the Awesome Again Stakes.

McKinzie, named after the late Los Alamitos’ executive Brad McKinzie (a close friend of Baffert), was Baffert’s early Kentucky Derby hope before he was sidelined in March. Justify then stepped forward for Baffert and won the Triple Crown.

The winner of four of five starts, McKinzie came back in September to win the Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby as the 2-1 favorite in preparation for the Classic.

West Coast drew the sixth post position while McKinzie is next door in the seventh post. Mike Smith rode each horse in their latest race and chose McKinzie, probably because he will race next year. John Velazquez picks up the mount on West Coast.

It shapes up as an east-west confrontation in the Sentient Juvenile with the undefeated pair of Game Winner and Complexity.

Baffert sends out the undefeated West Coast-based Game Winner in the Juvenile. The colt easily won his maiden and then raced to Grade 1 wins in the Del Mar Futurity and the American Pharoah.

Game Winner, the 8/5 morning line favorite starts from the ninth post position with jockey Rosario.

East Coast-based Complexity is two-for-two coming into the Juvenile for trainer Chad Brown. He won his maiden at Saratoga and then stepped up to take the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes by three lengths at Belmont Park.

The 5/2 second choice, Complexity, drew the sixth post position and has Jose Ortiz riding.

The most anticipated race around the world is the $4-million Longines Turf with European superstar filly Enable, the even-money favorite.

Trained by John Gosden and ridden by Frankie Dettori, Enable has eight consecutive wins, including six Group 1 events. The remarkable earner of $8.5-million has won the $5-million Qatar Prix de I’Arc de Triomphe — Europe’s top race for older horses — over males the past two years. She won this year’s running in her latest effort as the even-money favorite. She would be the first horse to win the Arc and the then the Turf in the same year. Seven Arc winners have tried, but found defeat in the Turf.

Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Enable has arrived at Churchill Downs and will be making her first start outside of Europe in the Turf.

Enable has the second post position in the 13-horse lineup.

The Longines Turf will be contested on Saturday.

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