Elite Power, Casa Creed Breeze Bullet at Santa Anita

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Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
Elite Power and Casa Creed work at Santa Anita Park in preparation for the Breeders’ Cup

Champion Elite Power   and multiple grade 1 winner Casa Creed  clocked the bullet half-mile of the day Oct. 29 at Santa Anita Park in advance of their respective engagements in the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) and Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T).

The pair headed a group of four Breeders' Cup starters for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott to work Sunday morning. Likely Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) favorite Cody's Wish   and Breeders' Cup Turf (G1T) hopeful War Like Goddess  each worked solo half-miles later in the a.m.

Casa Creed, who will be making his fourth Breeders' Cup outing in the Nov. 4 Turf Sprint, broke off in front of Elite Power to begin their work. Elite Power, a "lazy" workhorse, according to Mott, tracked his stablemate and linked up with Casa Creed at the quarter pole. The pair finished stride for stride down the stretch. Elite Power was technically credited with the bullet :46 1/5 since he began the work a length or so behind Casa Creed (:46 2/5).

"I thought they went well. It worked out as planned," Mott told Michelle Yu of TVG. "(Casa Creed and Elite Power are) a great team. You wouldn't think one being a turf horse and the other being a dirt sprinter that it would work but they're a great match. They've been working together quite often."

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Defending Dirt Mile hero Cody's Wish, worked a half-mile in :47 1/5 under Mott assistant Neil Poznansky. The long-striding son of Curlin   had been turning heads all week with his monster-like morning gallops.

"He looked very good—smooth and in hand all the way. Neil said (Cody's Wish) was happy and would've liked to go around again," Mott said.

The last of the Mott quartet, War Like Goddess, third in last year's Turf against the males, worked a "maintenance half" in an easy :49 4/5. She is the only mare competing in this year's Turf.