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Tap It Rich, Bright Thought could be BC bound

Bright Thought could find himself making his return from an eight-month break in the BC Mile (Benoit Photos) Tap It Rich's 4 1/4-length maiden win at one mile in Saturday's 4TH race at Santa Anita was an eye-opener. The $510,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase owned by David Shimmon and William Bianco's Fog City Stable "hopped slightly in a slow start, drifted out into the first turn, moved up four wide on the backstretch and outside or off the rail on the second turn, took the lead three deep into the stretch and won clear under steady handling," according to the Equibase chart. "We were high on him going in," trainer Bob Baffert said, "and he really validated it when he ran like that. "I might run him in an 'a-other-than' for $2 million," the conditioner added in a left-handed reference to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile on November 2 at Santa Anita when asked what could be next for the gray Tapit ridgling. If Tap It Rich goes in the Juvenile, he could face stakes winner Diamond Bachelor, who suffered his first defeat in the grassy Zuma Beach Stakes on October 6.

According to trainer Patrick Biancone, that War Front colt, is "75 percent for the Juvenile (on dirt) and 25 percent for the Juvenile Turf."

In other Breeders' Cup news from Santa Anita, trainer Jorge Gutierrez said Sunday that Bright Thought is being considered for the Breeders' Cup Mile.

The Hat Trick four-year-old worked six furlongs over the track's firm turf on Saturday in 1:13 4/5.

"He did it quite easily," Gutierrez said. "We'll look at the Mile, but it's one work at a time."

Bright Thought was last seen taking the 1 1/2-mile San Luis Rey on March 16 in a world-record time of of 2:22.72.

Two Breeders' Cup candidates worked on Santa Anita's fast main track Sunday.

Grade 1 heroine She's a Tiger, who is headed for the Juvenile Fillies, clocked five furlongs in a bullet :57 4/5 for trainer Jeff Bonde.

Fellow Juvenile Fillies hopeful Untapable, unbeaten in two career starts thus far including the September 7 Pocahontas at Churchill Downs, turned five-eighths in 1:02 for conditioner Steve Asmussen.

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