DEL MAR, Calif., Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Saturday's $7 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic still is the "race of the year," but the loss of heavy favorite and likely Horse of the Year Sovereignty takes it down a notch from "race of the century."
Sovereignty, winner of the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes and Travers Stakes, was scratched Wednesday after contracting a fever.
The race still has the first three finishers from last year's Classic in Sierra Leone, Fierceness (the morning line favorite) and Forever Young, as well as the second- and third-place finishers from this year's Kentucky Derby in Journalism and Baeza plus a clutch of would-be upsetters.
Post time is 6:25 p.m. EDT.
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