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A trio of Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" berths are on the line this weekend at Woodbine; the three Grade 1 contests highlight the Canadian track's Super Saturday card.
Classic Causeway and Nations Pride, who have each won one leg of the Caesars Turf Triple, will square off once more in Saturday’s Grade 3, $1 million Caesars Jockey Club Derby, to close out the lucrative series in the 12-furlong inner turf test for sophomores at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.
McPeek trainees Classic Causeway and Tiz The Bomb may be headed to the Grade 1 Saratoga Derby Invitational next.
Classic Causeway earned multiple graded stakes wins on dirt in his eight-race career before trainer Ken McPeek entered him against top-caliber divisional competition for his turf debut in the $1 million Caesars Belmont Derby Invitational (G1). But the homebred son of Giant’s Causeway took to the new surface immediately, surging to the front as a 26-1 longshot and never relinquishing the lead in a gate-to-wire victory on Belmont Park’s inner turf course on Saturday.
Trainer Ken McPeek will send out a pair of former Kentucky Derby (G1) starters in Tiz the Bomb and Classic Causeway for the $1 million Caesars Belmont Derby Invitational (G1), the 10-furlong first leg of the Caesars Turf Triple Series.