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ARCADIA — Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer’s assistant, Dan Ward, echoed jockey Mike Smith’s sentiments about Songbird drawing the rail for Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Santa Anita. Songbird, the 6-5 moing-line favorite, brings an 11-0 record into the 1 1/8-mile race. She’s 7-0 this year and has won four Grade I stakes in three states. “It’s really not a conce,” Ward said. “She’s drawn the rail three times in the past and you know the result. This is going to be a very tough race, so I look at it as us having the shortest distance home.” Songbird’s three races when starting from the rail? All three resulted in gate-to-wire victories. She won by 6 1/2 lengths in her career debut in July 2015 at Del Mar, won the Grade I Santa Anita Oaks by 3 3/4 lengths over a sloppy track April 9, and scooted home first by 5 1/4 lengths in the Grade I Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga on July 24. Songbird, a 3-year-old daughter of Medaglia d’Oro, has won ,breeders cup 2016,breeders cup 2017,breeders cup entries,breeders cup classic,breeders,breedersworld,breeders cup picks,breeders cup post positions,breeders near me,breeders cannonball ...ادامه مطلب