Artie, Bachelor, Dance With Fate opt for Juvenile

We Miss Artie, Diamond Bachelor and Dance With Fate have all chosen

Saturday's Breeders' Cup Juvenile on dirt rather than Friday's Juvenile Turf.

The Todd Pletcher-trained We Miss Artie, a distant second in his debut on

dirt, switched to turf before capturing the Breeders' Futurity over Keeneland's

Polytrack last out.

"We Miss Artie has trained exceptional over the dirt, so we're going to take

a shot in the Juvenile," said Pletcher, who has won two of the last three

runnings of the Juvenile with Uncle Mo and Shanghai Bobby.

"He was training super on the dirt at Saratoga and has not missed a beat

since getting out to Santa Anita. It's a tough spot obviously, but the colt

could not be doing any better."

Pletcher also has the unbeaten Champagne winner Havana for the Juvenile.

Diamond Bachelor was entered in the Juvenile for his first start on dirt. The

colt, whose three starts have all been on turf, had also been pre-entered in the

Juvenile Turf.

"The more and more we thought about it, I think she has a real shot to win

that race and still have the chance to be the champion two-year-old filly," the

five-time Sovereign Award-winning trainer said. "The only other reason is that

we haven't had enough time to train her properly on dirt. So we're going to

dance with the one that brought us."

Casse also revealed that Laugh Track, who was pre-entered in the Dirt Mile

and the Sprint, will line up in the gate for the Sprint.

"He's not going to get in the (Dirt) Mile," Casse said. "Three-quarters (of a

mile) may be too short for him, but if we get a hot pace they may collapse up

front and that might set it up for him. I couldn't be happier with the way he's

coming up to the race."

Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin reported that both Dancing House and Sky Painter

will run in the Juvenile Fillies Turf on Friday. Dancing House had been

pre-entered in the Juvenile Fillies as well.

"Both fillies have been training fantastic and are doing well," McLaughlin

said. "We cross-entered Dancing House in the Juvenile Fillies because she

finished third in the Spinaway on dirt, but her turf race in the Miss Grillo was

a better effort on all of the speed figures that we use."

Manny Azpurua said that the Rontos Racing Stable's Street Girl would run in

Distaff rather than the Filly & Mare Sprint for which she also had been

pre-entered.

"She was third in a Grade 1 in her last race and she worked well before

coming here," Azpurua said as he watched Street Girl jog on the main track at

Santa Anita for the first time after arriving Sunday.

Street Girl worked a best-of-33 half-mile in :46 at Gulfstream Park last

Friday. Both of her victories have come in two-turn races on dirt and in her

most recent start finished third, beaten two lengths, behind Distaff rival Close

Hatches in the Cotillion Stakes at Parx.

Reneesgotzip will run in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, said trainer Peter

Miller Monday morning from his stable at Hollywood Park. The four-year-old

daughter of City Zip was pre-entered in the Turf Sprint and the Sprint.

She will be making her second appearance in the Turf Sprint, having finished

third in 2012.

Trainer Mike Pender confirmed Monday morning that his two Breeders' Cup

horses, pre-entered in the Turf Sprint and the Mile, would go in the Turf

Sprint.