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I walked into the sea wearing little but my City Of Troy gilet looking for answers in the Breeders’ Cup…
IF he does it the feat will be history making and history defying, and one that would leave Coolmore Godfather John Magnier on top of the world.
But the simple truth is before the event no-one knows whether City Of Troy can land Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Classic on the Del Mar dirt.
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For trainer Aidan O’Brien and the Coolmore ‘lads’, this is the ultimate moment of truth.
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Since the year 2000 they have tried to bag a Classic, and it has become their Holy Grail.
But despite sending sixteen horses into battle – including legendary sire Galileo, the ‘iron horse’ Giant’s Causeway, Hawk Wing, gorgeous George Washington and So You Think – they have found success elusive.
On Saturday, at 9.41pm live like every Breeders’ Cup race on Sky Sports Racing, that could all change.
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On Thursday I walked into the Pacific Ocean just off the Del Mar coast dressed in my City of Troy gillet to pause and think for a moment.
Seas are, of course, associated with chaos. European turf star City Of Troy will face chaos in the Classic that he has never come close to tackling before in his illustrious, Epsom Derby-winning career.
O’Brien has looked under every stone he can to try and prepare his monster for this test of all tests.
He’s taken the son of Justify to Southwell for a day out on that track’s artificial surface. He’s sat US star Jerry Bailey down with Ryan Moore to go over every tactical scenario. He’s talked the talk and walked the walk.
Now it’s down to Troy to deliver.
Gosh I hope he does. Coolmore deserves this. How many other Europeans would take up this challenge? Not many.
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Dirt racing is all about the break. About speed of the speed. City Of Troy won’t know what has hit him. But he might just do it. That’s the beauty of all this. He might just do it.
If he does, he’ll have to deny Fierceness from the Todd Pletcher yard and, incidentally, soon to become a Coolmore sire.
The son of City of Light – himself a Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile hero – blew out in the Kentucky Derby, but around that defeat has banged in a Florida Derby and Grade 1 Travers, defeating the magnificent filly Thorpedo Anna who you will see in the Distaff.
Then there is Japanese star Forever Young, the winner of no less than six of his seven starts and a close third in the Kentucky Derby.
As a bet, I think you could do a lot worse than SIERRA LEONE who for me is a cracking each-way proposition.
Stateside people laugh at us Sierra Leone supporters. They say he’s essentially a twicer and doesn’t put it all in. Everyone has given up on Sierra Leone. Not me!
Sierra Leone is a Grade 1 winner who was third in the Travers, third in the Belmont and second in the Kentucky Derby. He’s at long odds and should get a fast pace to run at. He might just fall in.
Away from the Classic, a fabulous night of racing awaits us, and that includes a belting Breeders’ Cup Mile.
The 2000 Guineas hero Notable Speech is up against Porta Fortuna, who was runner-up in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf at Santa Anita, second in the 1000 Guineas and the winner of the Group 1 Coronation, Falmouth and Matron Stakes.
Carl Spackler is the American turfer not to ignore in the same race, while Diego Velazquez might have more to give at this trip having been dropped in distance.
I’m sticking with NOTABLE SPEECH for Godolphin and Charlie Appleby, who are trying to win the Mile for a record fourth time in a row.
The Turf Sprint numbers Bradsell, Believing and Big Evs, although I wonder if filly STAR OF MYSTERY is the value eachway here.
Emily Upjohn and Frankie Dettori tackle REBEL’S ROMANCE in the Turf, a race the latter won in 2022, while Yorkshire Oaks heroine Content bids to get her season back on track in the Filly & Mare Turf.
The local hope WAR LIKE GODDESS might be hard to beat in that contest. She tackled Auguste Rodin in the Turf last year and this is much easier, although be warned she’s a quirky strong traveller that doesn’t always find.
Boy, what a day ahead in California. I just wish the ocean had all the answers. The results could yet leave me all at sea.
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Kevin Magnussen will sit out the entire Brazilian Grand Prix weekend due to illness, with reserve driver Oliver Bearman remaining in the car until Sunday.
On Friday morning Haas announced that Magnussen would have to sit out the Friday running after being taken ill, and that he would be replaced by Bearman for free practice and sprint qualifying. That also meant Bearman would stay in the car for Saturday morning’s sprint.
But in a further update Haas has now confirmed that Magnussen won’t be in the car at all this weekend, with Bearman also taking part in Saturday qualifying and Sunday’s grand prix.
“Haas F1 Team can confirm that Kevin Magnussen will not compete in the São Paulo Grand Prix and Oliver Bearman will race for the team for the remainder of the weekend,” the team shared in a statement, with Motorsport.com understanding Magnussen’s symptoms are nausea-related.
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Bearman acquitted himself well on Friday in his first-ever visit to Sao Paulo’s Interlagos circuit, taking third in free practice before advancing to the top 10 in sprint qualifying.
The Briton was on course for eighth place on the grid, but saw his SQ3 laptime deleted for exceeding track limits and will line up in 10th, ahead of experienced team-mate Nico Hulkenberg in 12th.
Bearman is set for his third grand prix start and his second for Haas, having already replaced Magnussen in Baku when the Danish driver served a one-race ban for accumulating too many penalty points.
The 19-year-old Ferrari junior, who has already been signed by Haas to step up to a full-time race seat in 2025, also deputised for Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz in Saudi Arabia when the Spaniard was treated for appendicitis.
Bearman’s third start also means Haas will have to rethink its plans for the Abu Dhabi post-season test, which Bearman was set to take part in for his 2025 employer.
Drivers are not allowed to have started in more than two grands prix to be eligible to drive the team’s second car designated for rookies, while the teams’ other car is used by regular drivers for Pirelli tyre testing.
Additional reporting by Oleg Karpov
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Mercedes star George Russell reveals how he LOST over £100k during his first season in F1 due to tiny salary
GEORGE RUSSELL has revealed he lost more than £100,000 during his first season in Formula 1.
The Mercedes driver, 26, is now the joint-fifth highest earning driver on the grid, raking in £14million per year.
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But prior to his move to Mercedes in 2022, he spent three seasons with Williams.
The Brit’s debut year in the sport – 2019 – saw him finish 20th in the drivers’ standings without a point.
And he has now opened up about the tiny base salary he was earning at that time.
Russell was discussing new regulations which mean offences such as crossing the track could now carry fines of up to €1million – a significant increase on the €50,000 punishment Lewis Hamilton received last season.
Speaking as the chairman of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, Russell said: “I think it’s pretty ridiculous that a driver could be fined €1m.
“In my first year of F1, I was on a five-figure salary and actually lost over six figures in that first year from paying for my trainer, paying for flights, paying for an assistant.
“And that’s probably the case for 25 per cent of the grid.
“We’re doing what we love, so we’re not complaining about that.
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“But if you take a year one driver who probably by the end of the year is losing over €100,000 because of the investments he has to make, you fine them a million, what’s going to happen?”
Williams were in a dire financial position in 2019, before Claire Williams sold the team to Dorilton Capital the following year.
Alex Albon and Franco Colapinto are their current drivers, but Carlos Sainz is leaving Ferrari to join Williams to complete their 2025 line-up.
Meanwhile, Russell sits seventh in the drivers’ championship, 12 points behind team-mate Hamilton.
He has one victory in 2024 and was stripped of another after his car was found to be underweight during a post-race inspection.
Next season, he will have a change of team-mates when Andrea Kimi Antonelli, 18, replaces Hamilton as the seven-time champion joins Ferrari.
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Ian Machado Garry and Joaquin Buckley will battle it out in the final fight of 2024 for the UFC.
The promotion announced on Saturday that Garry and Buckley headline UFC Tampa, which takes place Dec. 14 at Amalie Arena.
Both Garry and Buckley expressed interest in stepping in to face Shavkat Rakhmonov in the main event of UFC 310 for the interim welterweight title following Belal Muhammad withdrawing due to a toe infection, but instead the UFC matchmakers have decided to pair up the surging 170-pound contenders.
The undefeated Garry competes for the third time in 2024. “The Future” earned a split decision win over Geoff Neal at UFC 298 in February, and then handed Michael Page his first promotional defeat at UFC 303 in June. Garry is currently ranked No. 7 in the MMA Fighting Global Rankings.
Buckley, No. 10, is unbeaten since moving down to welterweight, winning all five of his 170-pound octagon appearances. “New Mansa” looks to make it 4-0 in 2024 after stoppage wins over Stephen Thompson and Vicente Luque, and a unanimous decision win against Nursulton Ruziboev. The former middleweight makes his 15th UFC appearance.
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