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DEL MAR, Calif. -- It took a little more than two minutes for California Chrome to dominate Beholder, Dortmund, and Hoppertunity on Saturday in the Pacific Classic at Del Mar, but the ramifications of his overpowering victory may be felt for the next two months.While California Chrome is headed to the $6 million Breeders Cup Classic on Nov. 5 at Santa Anita, with a possible prep in the Grade 1, $300,000 Awesome Again at Santa Anita on Oct. 1, Beholders year-end goal may now be the $2 million Breeders Cup Distaff on Nov. 4, while Dortmunds and Hoppertunitys connections were plotting their next moves after being no match on Saturday for California Chrome.California Chrome won the Pacific Classic by five lengths over Beholder and received a Beyer Speed Figure of 113, equaling his career best, earned when third in the 2014 Breeders Cup Classic.Hes so much stronger. Hes in the best part of his career now, Art Sherman, who trains California Chrome, said at his Del Mar barn on Sunday morning. Its kinda awesome to watch.Youve got the best horses in the country. These races are tougher, Sherman said, comparing the current campaign to when California Chrome was 3. I think hes the best horse in the world, not that I might be biased.California Chrome left Del Mar on Sunday morning for his regular base at Los Alamitos. There is a $1 million bonus for a horse who can win the Pacific Classic, Awesome Again, and Breeders Cup Classic, but Sherman said that would have no impact on whether he goes in the Awesome Again.Hell be ready, Sherman said. Id be fine going into the Breeders Cup Classic fresh.There are six weeks to the Awesome Again, then five more to the Breeders Cup Classic.The timing is right. Well see how he recovers, Sherman said. He came out of the race good. He was super after the race.With his Pacific Classic victory, California Chrome earned a fees-paid berth to the Breeders Cup Classic through the Win and Youre In program. He is 5 for 5 this year, and is the clear front-runner for Horse of the Year, a title he won in 2014.Trainer Richard Mandella said Beholder, who finished second, came out of the race real good.No way Im anything but proud of her, Mandella said Sunday morning. She beat some pretty nice horses. She ran well enough to win most Classics, but not that one. The winner ran awesome.Mandella said Beholder would point to the Grade 1, $300,000 Zenyatta Stakes at Santa Anita on Oct. 1 as her next start. Beholder has won that race, which is restricted to females, the last three years.Mandella said he would decide later whether to go in the Classic or the Distaff after the Zenyatta, but said, as of now Id probably be conservative and aim at the Distaff.Beholder won the Distaff in 2014, also at Santa Anita. She was scratched from last years Classic at Keeneland -- in which she would have faced Triple Crown winner American Pharoah -- when she took ill with a lung infection two days before the race.Dortmund, who was third in the Pacific Classic, and Hoppertunity, who was fourth, both also were fine Sunday morning, according to trainer Bob Baffert. He said the race was over the first eighth of a mile, when jockey Victor Espinoza aggressively sent California Chrome from his rail draw and secured the lead.Victor put the shock and awe at the beginning. That was it, Baffert said.Baffert said hed wait a bit before deciding on a race schedule for Dortmund and Hoppertunity this fall.My horses fired, Baffert said. The other horse was too good. He was the better horse. Sometimes youve got to say you got your ass beat. Nike MLB Jerseys For Sale . Reassurance came from Paul Tesori, his caddie and close friend whose newborn son is in intensive care in a Florida hospital. 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Frosted didnt, and he finished third, beaten three lengths by Keen Ice.On this hot August Saturday, in the 1-1/8-mile Whitney, McLaughlin seemed less concerned that Frosted was on the lead and setting rapid fractions because of the presence of jockey Joel Rosario on Frosteds back.After running six furlongs in 1:09.65 with Noble Bird off his flank, Frosted still had plenty left with which to finish and he bounced home a two-length winner of the Whitney before a crowd of 39,405, including Marylou Whitney. Comfort got up for second, by a half-length over Upstart, who nosed out Effinex for third. Noble Bird and El Kabeir completed the order of finish.The win earned Frosted a fees-paid berth into the $6 million Breeders Cup Classic on Nov. 5 at Santa Anita.And it came eight weeks after Frosted put forth an otherworldly performance winning the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap by 14-1/4 lengths while running the fastest mile in the 123-year history of the race.Frosted set fractions Saturday of 23.11 seconds for the quarter, 46.42 for the half-mile, 1:09.65 for six furlongs with Noble Bird off his flank. He opened up to a three-length lead in mid-stretch after running a mile in 1:34.52, and covered the 1-1/8 miles in 1:47.77. Frosted returned $3 as the 1-2 favorite.He might have regressed a little bit, but not the way it looks winning a mile and an eighth like he did, in hand, winning as fast as he ran, said McLaughlin, who trains Frosted for Sheikh Mohammeds Goddolphin Racing.dddddddddddd Its very special, its a privilege to have the horse in our barn for such great owners and such great people and I hope one day I can say hes the best horse I ever trained.Rosario was supposed to ride Frosted in last years Travers, but got injured in a spill two races earlier; he was replaced by Lezcano. Though he had never had Frosted on the lead before, Rosario said the horse put him there and he didnt want to fight him.I know he was probably going a little too fast -- more than normal -- but the race he ran the other day going a mile I thought it probably was going to have him a little sharp, Rosario said. I was cruising the whole way, felt very relaxed and I just saved something for the end.I was still a little concerned, McLaughlin said, owing to Frosteds six-furlong fraction. But he was going the right way. For Joel to be there he had to have a lot of horse. He just gets on great with this horse, he really fits this horse well.Frosted became the fifth horse in the last 26 years to win both the Met Mile and Whitney in the same year. Honor Code did it last year.Its another [$1.25 million] race that we won, a Grade 1, but the Met Mile ? its hard to compare to that, but he did it the right way and it was very impressive, McLaughlin said.McLaughlin said this performance confirmed that he would be pointed to the 1-1/4-mile Breeders Cup Classic. Now, McLaughlin must decide whether to run him again or train him up to the race.In 2006, Invasor won the Whitney and then didnt run again until the Classic, which he won over Bernardini.If McLaughlin decides to run Frosted before the Classic, the options include the Grade 1 Woodward here on Sept. 3, or the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont on Oct. 8. ' ' '