Chocolate Candy and Misremembered for Breeders’ Cup

Chocolate Candy and Misremembered, 3-year-olds with graded stakes wins in California this year, are on course for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita on Nov. 7, their trainers said Thursday.

Chocolate Candy finished fifth in the Grade 1 Goodwood Stakes over 1 1/8 miles here last Saturday. Earlier this year, he won the Grade 3 El Camino Real Derby and California Derby at Golden Gate Fields.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer was encouraged that Chocolate Candy ran a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 100 in the Goodwood Stakes, leaving him to believe the colt fits in the Dirt Mile.

“I’ve looked at a lot of horses in there, and we’ll nominate to the race,” Hollendorfer said.

He said Chocolate Candy’s closing style could suit a race such as the Dirt Mile, “especially if there is some speed to set it up.”

The $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic is not as appealing, he said.

“That’s a really tough race,” Hollendorfer said.

Owned by Jenny Craig, Chocolate Candy is winless in his last five starts, including a fifth in the Kentucky Derby and second in the El Cajon Stakes at Del Mar on Sept. 5.

Misremembered recovered from a 10th-place finish in the Pacific Classic over 1 1/4 miles at Del Mar on Sept. 6 to win the Grade 2 Indiana Derby at Hoosier Park on Oct. 3. He won the Grade 2 Swaps Stakes during the summer for owners Jill Baffert and George Jacobs and trainer Bob Baffert.