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Gulfport faces five in Champagne; Be Your Best tops Miss Grillo

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Gulfport faces five in Champagne; Be Your Best tops Miss Grillo

Gulfport is the favorite in Saturday's $500,000 Champagne S. (G1) at Aqueduct. Verifying and Champions Dream are expected to be in the field. Be Your Best and Free Lock are the other horses in a $200,00 Miss Grillo S ( G2) race. The race is a Breeders’ Cup Challenge series prep for juveniles. It is held after the inaugural Breeder”s Cup. Aquaduct hosted the traditional one-mile version six times from 1959 through 1967. Five of the six horses from that period were later named champion juvenile colt.

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