Champion rider will stay at Woodbine until end of the month before going back to California to collect Breeders' Cup mounts.
Breeders' Cup World Championships
Algiers, 2nd in the Dubai World Cup in March, is at Woodbine on Saturday to start a big weekend of racing in Toronto.
The two Grade 1 races for two-year-olds have attracted horses from Europe and the US to tackle the locals for a chance at the Breeders' Cup.
Woodbine has four stakes, three of them Grade 1s on the grass, on its Saturday card, September 16; highlight Ricoh Woodbine Mile.
Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby won the '22 Mile with Modern Games and could be back this year for the 27th edition.
Three-year-old colt wins South America's biggest race and gets the first berth to the 2023 Breeders' Cup in the Win and You're In turf race.
The forecast is hot and humid for Super Saturday at Woodbine on Sept. 17 with the Woodbine Mile headlining the action.
In order to keep three of its Grade 1 races in the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series, Woodbine's Summer, Natalma, and Mile will be Lasix-free.
Reigning Canadian Horse of the Year, pint-sized Starship Jubilee, easily brushes off the boys in the Grade 1 Mile, earning a Breeders' Cup ticket.
Locals get a chance to win a ticket to the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland in November in the Summer and Natalma Stakes on the grass.
The World Championships, offering $31 million in purses, will go on but due to the COVID-19 pandemic fans will not be in attendance.
Ticket holders to Nov. 6, 7 World Championships will be refunded in the event of cancellation or races with no spectators.
Vancouver's John Gunther is the breeder of Classic winner VINO ROSSO; BRICKS AND MORTAR is brilliant in Turf victory; MITOLE takes Sprint.
Who do you like? We asked a few of the locals to give us a couple of their top picks over the 2 days of the Breeders' Cup.
News, photos and links on the latest; Future Stars Friday begins at 4:12 ET today; Breeders' Cup Saturday begins at 2:55 ET.
