Kentucky Derby and Travers winner Street Sense likely will be the odds-on favourite in Saturday's Kentucky Cup Classic at Turfway Park.
The three-year-old colt will start from the middle of a field of five entered Wednesday. Hard Spun, runner-up in the Derby, will start from the inside post in a rematch that Turfway had hoped for, just four weeks before the Breeders' Cup.
Others entered for the 1 1-8 mile race over Polytrack are Stream Cat, trained by Patrick Biancone; Cat Shaker, trained by Craig Callis; and Muqbil, trained by Duane Knipe.
Turfway help lure Street Sense and Hard Spun for a Derby rematch by offering a $150,000 bonus if the Classic winner also had won a Grade 1 stakes in 2006 or 2007.
Carl Nafzger, who trains Street Sense, had been considering three races for Street Sense, including the Hawthorne Gold Cup at Hawthorne Park and the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park. But he decided on the Kentucky Cup Classic because of Turfway's proximity to Louisville, where Street Sense is stabled at Churchill Downs.
"It was the idea of putting him on the van in the morning, go up there, run, then come back home," Nafzger said Monday.
Both trainers are pointing to the $5-million Breeders' Cup Classic at Monmouth Park on Oct. 27, although Larry Jones has said Hard Spun could end up in the Breeders' Cup Sprint.
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