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Each week a panel of media members, horseplayers, and Breeders’ Cup World Championships officials release a poll tabulating their votes on the nation's top contenders for the 2021 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic.

The field for the Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic begins to take shape in early summer after the Triple Crown races conclude. Over the July 4 holiday weekend, the $6 million race picked up a new prime player coming out of the Grade 2 Suburban Stakes at Belmont Park.

There’s a well-known expression about something looking like a “million bucks.”

Slowly but surely, First Captain is looking more and more like the $1.5 million bucks his ownership group paid for him in 2019 as the co-sale topper at the Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton’s New York sale of selected yearlings.

When the field loaded into the starting gate for the Delaware Oaks at Delaware Park on July 10, 2010, all eyes were on the 1-5 favorite. Jerry Hollendorfer-trained Blind Luck was a firmly established superstar by that point, having won five graded stakes races including the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs.

The only Grade 1 winner in an eight-horse field for the $350,000 Grade 2 Princess Rooney Invitational Stakes July 3 at Gulfstream Park, Bo Hirsch's homebred Ce Ce returned to the form that saw her win twice at the highest level last year.

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