Budget Stable's homebred Dressed in Hermes, fifth in the Oct. 30 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IT) in his most recent outing, and winner of the Zuma Beach Stakes the start before that, heads a group of 13 2-year-olds entered for the $100,000 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (gr. IIIT) Nov. 29 at Del Mar.
The mile turf race also drew graded stakes-placed Manhattan Dan, who was seventh for trainer Gary Contessa in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf after setting the pace last out. He will be ridden by Jose Lezcano from the rail under 116 pounds.
Dressed in Hermes, a Hat Trick gelding, raced second throughout that race before fading as well. Mike Smith has the call on the 122-pound highweight, who will leave post 10 for trainer Janet Armstrong.
Gary Stevens rode Dressed in Hermes in the Breeders' Cup, but gets on Canada in this spot instead. The $500,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Giant's Causeway took three starts to break his maiden for Stonestreet Stables and Coolmore partners, but did so with a four-wide rally Oct. 24 at the DeMille distance. He breaks from the 4 hole.
Switching back to turf after a fourth in the Sept. 26 FrontRunner Stakes (gr. I) is Rare Candy, who prior to that start was fourth in the Del Mar Juvenile Turf Stakes. Hot Ore was second in that latter race, but needs to rebound from a ninth in the Oct. 4 Dixiana Bourbon Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Keeneland.
Tusk, Collected, Frank Conversation, Storming Candy, and Arizona Moon all come off maiden wins. Frank Conversation, the maiden Archaeo, and Irish-bred Imperious One (who is making his North American debut), form a trio for trainer Doug O'Neill.
PP | Horse | Jockey | Wgt | Trainer | M/L |
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1 | 1Manhattan Dan (KY) | Jose Lezcano | 116 | Gary C. Contessa | 5/1 |
2 | 2Collected (KY) | Martin Garcia | 116 | Bob Baffert | 8/1 |
3 | 3Tusk (KY) | John R. Velazquez | 116 | H. Graham Motion | 6/1 |
4 | 4Canada (KY) | Gary L. Stevens | 116 | Simon Callaghan | 8/1 |
5 | 5Frank Conversation (KY) | Mario Gutierrez | 116 | Doug F. O'Neill | 10/1 |
6 | 6Ninety One Assault (LA) | Kent J. Desormeaux | 116 | J. Keith Desormeaux | 8/1 |
7 | 7Hot Ore (CA) | Tyler Baze | 116 | Robertino Diodoro | 12/1 |
8 | 8Arizona Moon (KY) | Drayden Van Dyke | 116 | Stacy Campo | 30/1 |
9 | 9Rare Candy (FL) | Joseph Talamo | 116 | David E. Hofmans | 15/1 |
10 | 10Dressed in Hermes (KY) | Mike E. Smith | 122 | Janet Armstrong | 7/2 |
11 | 11Imperious One (IRE) | Rafael Bejarano | 116 | Doug F. O'Neill | 8/1 |
12 | 12Storming Candy (KY) | Edwin A. Maldonado | 116 | Clifford W. Sise, Jr. | 20/1 |
98 | 13Archaeo (KY) | SCRATCHED | 0 | UNKNOWN | - |