Sun Sep 23 14:36:07 2007

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Street Sense confirmed for Kentucky Cup Classic

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Florence, KY (Sports Network) - Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense has been confirmed as a starter for Saturday's $350,000 Kentucky Cup Classic at Turfway Park. The James Tafel-owned colt will face Hard Spun, winner of the Lane's End Stakes, in the 1 1/8 mile race.

The trainers of the two thoroughbreds notified racing secretary Rick Leigh on Saturday. Carl Nafzger, trainer of Street Sense, had been secretive of his three-year-old's next start. Street Sense last raced in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga on August 25. He won the "Mid-Summer Derby" by a half-length over Grasshopper.

Hard Spun, second to Street Sense in the Kentucky Derby, is coming off a win in the King's Bishop Stakes at Saratoga last month. Trained by Larry Jones, Hard Spun was third in the Preakness and fourth in the Belmont Stakes. He then finished second to Any Given Saturday in the Haskell at Monmouth Park.

Hard Spun captured the Lane's End at Turfway in his final start before the Run for the Roses.

"The Kentucky Cup races are ideally timed for preparation for the Breeders' Cup World Championships, as previous winners have demonstrated," said Turfway Park president and CEO Robert N. Elliston.