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Grand Arch Works

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GRAND ARCH The Shadwell Turf Mile Gr I - 30th Running Keeneland Race Course Lexington, Kentucky October 3, 2015 Race #09 Purse $1,000,000 One Mile-Turf 1:37.45 Susan & Jim Hill, Owner Brian A. Lynch, Trainer Luis Saez, Jockey The Pizza Man (2nd) Tourist (3rd) $10.60 $4.80 $4.20 Please Give Photo Credit To: Keeneland / Coady Photography

Jim and Susan Hill’s Grand Arch (Arch) worked a half-mile over Keeneland’s good turf course Sunday in :50.80 (video) ahead of Saturday’s GI Breeders’ Cup Turf.

“I thought that was a nice piece of working considering how far out the ‘dogs’ were this morning,” trainer Brian Lynch said. “He is as good as we can get him.”

Grand Arch, coming off a wins in the Oct. 3 GI Shadwell Turf Mile and Aug. 15 GII Fourstardave S., covered the first quarter-mile in :26.60 and finished the move with a :24.20 final quarter.

“We didn’t want him to do too much today,” Lynch said of the 6-year-old, who worked a half in :51.60 on the dirt last Sunday.

“This is a horse that doesn’t need to take his track with him. There was a little cut in the ground for the [GII] Fourstardave and the Shadwell as well as his [allowance win] here in the spring.”