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Pavel had payout odds of 20-1 (or $200 for every $10 bet) for Saturday's Breeders Cup Classic.
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Pavel had a victory in Churchill Downs' Stephen Foster Handicap during the summer. The four-year-old is trained by Doug O'Neill.
His most recent victory came with Nyquist in the 2015 Juvenile at Keeneland Race Course.
“The other thing that's encouraging with him is that he's such a good traveler,” O'Neill said. “He's a great road horse.”
"I think you get the closest thing you can to a racing setting—you're holding off their breakfast, you're getting them ready when everyone else is settled, and it's a good, big-race tuneup type of thing," O'Neill said after he watched Pavel work seven furlongs in 1:26 2/5 under jockey Mario Gutierrez. "But you have to have a special horse to get the OK."
The Friday and Saturday schedule appears below. Live betting odds can be found here.
Friday's Races (Nov. 2, all times ET)
Juvenile Turf Sprint, 3:21 p.m.
Juvenile Fillies Turf, 4 p.m.
Tito's Handmade Vodka Juvenile Fillies, 4:40 p.m.
Juvenile Turf, 5:22 p.m.
Sentient Jet Juvenile 6:05 p.m.
Saturday's Races (Nov. 3, all times ET)
Filly and Mare Sprint, 12 p.m.
Turf Sprint, 12:38 p.m.
Dirt Mile, 1:16 p.m.
Maker's Mark Filly & Mare Turf, 2:04 p.m.
Twinspires Sprint, 2:46 p.m.
Mile, 3:36 p.m.
Longines Distaff, 4:16 p.m.
Longines Turf, 4:56 p.m.
Classic, 5:44 p.m.
- Dan Shapiro, Gambling911.com
