(October 15, 2004)- Wilko, a two-time allowance winner on turf in England, is heading to the $1.5 million Bessemer Trust Breeders' Cup Juvenile after being purchased in part by California owner Paul Reddam. The Awesome Again colt will arrive in the Dallas Fort Worth area on the Monday, Oct. 25 flight from the United Kingdom.

Reddam said previous owner Susan Roy will retain a minority interest in the colt. Wilko will run in the Juvenile under the name of current trainer Jeremy Noseda before being transferred into the care of Craig Dollase in California.

Wilko most recently finished a troubled third in the one-mile Group 2 Hackney Empire Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot.

"I've seen videos of all his races," Reddam said. "His last race was going a mile in a Group 2 at Ascot. He doesn't have the turn of foot that a lot of the European horses have, but he looks like he's a real tryer and a stayer so we're hoping that will suit American racing a little better."

Wilko raced 10 times in England this year, tallying two wins, two seconds and four thirds. All of his starts have come on turf.

"We're hoping the dirt picks him up but you just never know," Reddam said. "He could go forwards or backwards and we won't actually know until the race. He's going to work at Lindfield on the all-weather surface there before he comes over. It's not quite the same as a dirt track."

Reddam said Wilko was purchased specifically for the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships on Oct. 30 at Lone Star Park.

"If we didn't have this race in mind we wouldn't have bought him," the owner said. "I think the Juvenile, as of now, is wide open."

Wilko brings the number of Reddam horses in the Breeders' Cup to four. The 49-year-old philosopher and financier also owns Elloluv ($2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff -- Presented by Nextel), Pt's Grey Eagle ($1 million Breeders' Cup Sprint) and Sharp Lisa ($1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies).

Wilko, bred in Kentucky by Austin, Texas resident Ro Parra, has made all of his starts in the U.K.

"I have a gentleman, Jamie McCmalmont, who works for me over in England," Reddam said. "He found him and they've been talking the last couple weeks. We finally put the deal together over the weekend."

Reddam said no decision has been made on who will ride Wilko, as the owners would like to wait until they see what riders make other commitments.

Reddam Has Four Live Shots for Breeders' Cup

Owner J. Paul Reddam has four contenders for the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas on Oct. 30. The 49-year-old owner believes he has a shot with each one.

Elloluv will try to repeat her success of 2003, when she finished second in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff at 8-1. Like last year, Elloluv will enter the Distaff off a defeat in the Grade II Lady's Secret Breeders' Cup Handicap at Santa Anita.

"Elloluv has not had a very good year, but she came out of her last race really well," Reddam said. "That race, to me, was better after I thought about it for a day. She was very forwardly placed and speed was not holding up that day. Island Fashion will be one of the favorites and she just got by us."

Pt's Grey Eagle will be an outsider in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Sprint against more established speedsters, but proved he belongs with an upset win in Sunday's Grade I Ancient Title Breeders' Cup Handicap.

"He came out of the Ancient Title very well," Reddam said. "I think he'll be kind of a longshot in the Sprint because his Beyer [Speed Figure] was on the low side, a 102, but I'm going to discount that because he was very wide and he did what he needed to do to win. And he's getting better and that race is wide open."

Sharp Lisa, who Reddam co-owns with Suarez Racing and Pablo Suarez, earned a shot in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies with a game second to Runway Model in the Grade II Alcibiades at Keeneland.

"It was a lot to ask going from a five-and-a-half [furlong] maiden race at Calder to a two-turn race at Keeneland," Reddam said. "I thought she raced very well and was an unlucky loser. Hopefully, she'll take another step forward. She is definitely a filly that's improving."

Reddam said Frankie Dettori has been booked to ride the daughter of Dixieland Band.
Last weekend, Reddam purchased a majority interest in Wilko, an allowance winner in England who will make his North American and dirt debut in the $1.5 million Bessemer Trust Breeders' Cup Juvenile.

"He doesn't have the turn of foot that a lot of the European horses have, but he looks like he's a real tryer and a stayer so we're hoping that will suit American racing a little better," Reddam said.

Monday's Flight to Arrive at 8:30 A.M. with Sense of Style, Magistretti

A posse of horses trained by Patrick Biancone, including Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships contenders Sense of Style ($1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies) and Magistretti ($2 million John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf), will arrive at Dallas Love Field on Monday at 8:30 a.m. CT, according to Paul Holthus of the H.E. Tex Sutton Forwarding Co. The charter flight, originating in Lexington, Ky. at 7 a.m. CT (8 a.m. in the Bluegrass State), is the first of several Tex Sutton flights that will deliver many of the world's top racehorses to the Dallas Fort Worth area for the Oct. 30 Breeders' Cup at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie.

The Biancone contingent will also include multiple entrants for the four undercard stakes on Breeders' Cup Day, though the trainer said he hasn't sorted out who will make the trip or for which races. Biancone's party will be stabled in trainer Keith Desormeaux's Barn A2.

The next day, Tuesday, will bring more major players from Kentucky, including the Dale Romans-trained pair of Roses in May ($4 million Breeders' Cup Classic - Powered by Dodge), the Whitney Handicap winner undefeated in 2004, and Kitten's Joy, one of the favorites for the Turf coming off consecutive Grade I wins. The Romans pair is also bound for Barn A2.

Wonder Again ($1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf) and Indy Groove ($2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff) are also booked for Tuesday's flight. Wonder Again will stay in Steve Asmussen's Barn B5 and Indy Groove will bed down in Barn E2.

Friday, Oct. 22 will bring Godolphin Racing's Grade I Beverly D winner Crimson Palace (Filly & Mare Turf) on a flight from New York City.

Trainer Nick Zito has chartered the Tex Sutton plane for Saturday, Oct. 23 to bring five horses, including Belmont and Travers winner Birdstone (Classic) and Grade I Champagne third Sun King ($1.5 million Bessemer Trust Breeders' Cup Juvenile), on a flight from Albany, N.Y. near the trainer's base at Saratoga.

Texas-bound flights will continue from Sunday to Wednesday (Oct. 24-27) of Breeders' Cup week. There's a New York to Kentucky to Texas flight on Sunday, Oct. 24 that will carry multimillionaire Perfect Drift (Classic), a California to Texas flight on Monday, Oct. 25 with defending Classic champion Pleasantly Perfect, flights from Kentucky and New York on Tuesday, Oct. 27, and flights from California and New York on Wednesday, Oct. 27. The New York flight on Oct. 27 will carry 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide.

Biancone Optimistic About Magistretti and Sense of Syle

Trainer Patrick Biancone said both of his Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships contenders, Grade I Matron winner Sense of Style ($1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies) and Grade I Man o' War winner Magistretti ($2 million John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf), will breeze once at Lone Star Park before the Oct. 30 races.

"Sense of Style will work next Saturday (Oct. 23)," Biancone said. "Magistretti will work one time on the turf over there. I will decide more when I get there on Tuesday."

Sense of Style and Magistretti arrive Monday morning aboard an H.E. Tex Sutton Forwarding charter flight from Lexington, Ky. along with an undetermined number of starters for the supporting stakes on Breeders' Cup Day.

"For the undercard we won't decide until the last moment," Biancone said.

Biancone said he still has faith in Sense of Style, an overwhelming early favorite for the Juvenile Fillies before she was upset as the odds-on choice in Keeneland's Grade II Alcibiades.

"She's still my favorite, for sure," Biancone said. "If she's the best racehorse, I don't know, but we've done the preparations we wanted to do with her and now we just pray everybody has a good race that day and hopefully we'll be the best."

Biancone is in a similar position with Magistretti, who was briefly considered the best turf horse in America until Kitten's Joy dominated the Grade I Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational. Magistretti finished second as the favorite.

"I've never said we will beat Kitten's Joy for sure, but we are going to try very hard," Biancone said. "Every race is different. If every race were the same, there'd be no more racing. We'll try to bring the horse into the race at his best for that day and let the best horse win. I'm sure [Kitten's Joy's trainer] Dale Romans will be trying to do the same thing. But it's not going to be just us, either. For the Breeders' Cup there will be, I'm sure, 10 or 12 very hard competitors."

Biancone will talk more about Sense of Style and Magistretti as the special guest on Saturday's edition of Inside Lone Star Park, which airs from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. CT on ESPN Radio 103.3 FM or espn1033.com.

Breeders' Cup Updates

$4 MILLION BREEDERS' CUP CLASSIC - POWERED BY DODGE - Belmont and Travers winner Birdstone breezed six furlongs in 1:15 Friday at Saratoga for trainer Nick Zito.

$2 MILLION JOHN DEERE BREEDERS' CUP TURF - Three-year-old Grade I Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational winner Kitten's Joy breezed five furlongs over a "soft" Keeneland turf course Friday in 1:03 2/5 for trainer Dale Romans...Joe Hirsch runner-up Magistretti also worked five furlongs over the "soft" Keeneland turf, breezing in 1:02 for trainer Patrick Biancone.

$1.5 MILLION NETJETS BREEDERS' CUP MILE - Trainer Robin Graham said Mr O'Brien will be supplemented to the Mile. The gelding won the Grade II Kelso at Belmont Park on Saturday and is four of five at the distance. "It cost $135,000 for him to go and that is an awful lot of money to put up," Graham said. "But with the way he won the Kelso, we think we have a legitimate shot. He was only three-fifths off the track record. The jock only hit him a couple times and told me the horse took him there. Since the race he has never backed off his feed." Eibar Coa, who rode Mr O'Brien in the Kelso, has the mount...Honor in War, second in the Grade I Shadwell Turf Mile at Keeneland, will be pre-entered in the Breeders' Cup Mile, according to owner Will Wolford.

$1.5 MILLION BESSEMER TRUST BREEDERS' CUP JUVENILE - Grade II Norfolk Stakes winner Roman Ruler breezed four furlongs in :49 1/5 Friday at Santa Anita for trainer Bob Baffert. "It was a very nice move," Baffert said. "He wanted to do more but we didn't let him."

$1 MILLION BREEDERS' CUP JUVENILE FILLIES - Play With Fire, fourth in the Grade I Frizette at Belmont Park, is on track for a start in the Juvenile Fillies, according to trainer Mark Hennig.

$1 MILLION BREEDERS' CUP FILLY & MARE TURF - Grade I Beverly D winner Crimson Palace breezed six furlongs in 1:13 4/5 at Belmont Park on Friday for trainer Saeed bin Suroor.

Did You Know?

For Breeders' Cup Day on Oct. 30, parking and admission gates will open at 7 a.m. Selected mutuel windows will open at 7:30 a.m. and all remaining mutuel windows will open at 8:30 a.m. Opening ceremonies will commence at 10:30 a.m. The first of 12 live races is at 11:40 a.m., while the first Breeders' Cup event, the $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff - Presented by Nextel, is set for 12:20 p.m.