Field Set For Jockey Club Gold Cup; Forever Young Draws Outside
Thoroughbred Daily News • • sports
Key Points:
- Forever Young (Jpn), the reigning Japanese Horse of the Year and Eclipse Award Champion Older Dirt Male, leads a field of seven in the $1 million GI Jockey Club Gold Cup on September 18 at Belmont Park.
- The 10-furlong race for 3-year-olds and up offers a "Win and You're In" spot for the GI Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland in October.
- Trainer Yoshito Yahagi expressed honor in competing in the U.S. again with Forever Young and hopes to contribute to American horse racing through this race and the Breeders' Cup Classic.
- Bill Mott's Horse of the Year Sovereignty will miss the race due to an abscess, but Mott will still compete with Baeza and Stars and Stripes.
- The full field includes Baeza, Stars and Stripes, Chunk of Gold, Phileas Fogg, Banishing, Render Judgement, and Forever Young, with Forever Young drawing post seven.
