Shared Belief, V. E. Day turn in final Classic works

Shared Belief, the 9-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday's $5 million

Breeders' Cup Classic, completed his major training Tuesday morning at Golden

Gate Fields by working four furlongs in :52 2/5 with Russell Baze aboard at 7

a.m. (PDT).

"After the work, Russell said it was awesome," trainer Jerry Hollendorfer

said. "He said there is a lot left in the tank."

Shared Belief was scheduled to arrive at Santa Anita around 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Undefeated in seven starts, Shared Belief passed his only Santa Anita test in

his most recent start, the Awesome Again on September 27. Tuesday's work over

the Tapeta surface at Golden Gate was his fourth since the Awesome Again with

two of the drills being bullet works.

"He went really good. We weren't looking for a whole lot. He had worked a

half-mile before we left for here," trainer Jimmy Jerkens said.

V. E. Day is coming off a troubled sixth-place finish in the Jockey Club Gold

Cup at Belmont on September 27.

"I usually don't kid myself about giving horses excuses, but I thought he had

a lot of them that day," Jerkens said. "We were going to call it a year or run

in the Discovery (Handicap at Aqueduct), but we got to thinking, 'you know what?

Let's give him the benefit of the doubt.' The more I watched the race, he would

have had to be Citation to win that race. He got hung out so wide."

V. E. Day had won his previous four races, including an upset over stablemate

Wicked Strong by a nose in the Travers. He has been victorious on turf and dirt.