Trainer John Hammond sees Kalanisi as the main European danger, after Montjeu was beaten by him at Newmarket last time, but thinks the local horses have an advantage over both of them. I think it's worth a couple of lengths. Montjeu and Kalanisi's last race was on a straight track and they have never been around two turns. While he's probaby not the horse he was when he was at the height of his powers, I think you can throw out his run in the Arc as just a bad day. I think we might get some rain and I wouldn't say 'no', but the course is not as firm as it can be in England during the summer.
Turf aspirant has a tough challenge ahead.
He's going to have to be at the top of his form to beat these horses, but I feel that's where he is. The way he's exercising on the track, and his feistiness, suggests to me he's going to run a very good race on Saturday. Like most Breeders' Cup horses, Quiet Resolve will be walked under the shedrow on the morning of the Championship. Many of the horses will go to Sam-Son Farm in Ocala, Fla. Frostad has been working with the Sam-Son Farm operation, the owner and breeder of Quiet Resolve, since 1995.