GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Singletary got through between horses on the turn in Saturday's $1.5 million Breeders' Cup Mile and just held off European rival Antonius Pius for the win.
French-based defending champion Six Perfections was third and the pace-setting Canadian contender Soaring Free was fourth in the most multinational event of the eight-race championship program at Lone Star Park.
Run over a yielding turf course, the Mile went in a slow 1:36.90, which suited winning jockey David Flores perfectly. After staying close to the pace, he had no trouble getting Singletary to the lead at the top of the stretch and held on.
Singletary is as all-American as his beaten rivals are foreign. A Kentucky-bred son of Sultry Song, he is named for former Chicago Bears linebacker Mike Singletary and Flores wore silks bearing the Bears' orange-and-blue "C" logo. He is owned by a 15-partner syndicate and trained by Don Chatlos, a Chicago native who saddled his first Breeders' Cup starter.
