Defending Top Two Renew Rivalry in Pellegrini

Sixties Song winning the Latinoamericano | Jamie Andres Cortes Piccardo photo

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Four-year-olds Sixties Song (Arg) (Sixties Icon {GB}) and Puerto Escondido (Arg) (Hurricane Cat), one-two finishers in last year's G1 Gran Premio Internacional Carlos Pellegrini, headline South America's marquee race on Saturday at Hipodromo San Isidro in Buenos Aires.

Defending champion Sixties Song, hero in March of the G1 Gran Premio Latinoamericano at Valparaiso in Chile, will bid to rebound from a lackluster effort in the G1 King George IV & Queen Elizabeth II S. at Ascot and a sixth-place finish behind Calcolatore (Arg) (Tawqeet) in the G1 Gran Premio Dardo Rocha, his most recent outing on dirt at Hipodromo La Plata Nov. 19. Trained by Alfredo Gaitan Dassie and to be ridden by Pablo Falero, Sixties Song returns to his preferred surface here and drew post four.

Puerto Escondido, second as a maiden at odds of 73-1 in last year's running, enters Argentina's signature event off a facile six-length defeat of Don Inc (Arg) (Include) and Hat Valiente (Arg) (Hat Trick {Jpn}) in the G1 Gran Premio Copa de Oro over the track and distance on October 28. The Pablo Sahagian pupil could solidify his maturity after earlier scores this year in the G1 Gran Premio Miguel A. Martinez de Hoz and G3 Clasico Progreso.

Other contenders include the ascendant sophomores Village King (Arg) (Campanologist) and The Great Day (Arg) (Harlan's Holiday), who finished a head apart in the G1 Gran Premio Jockey Club and bypassed the G1 Nacional (Argentine Derby) to contest the Pellegrini.

Archipenko, whose untimely passing was announced Friday, is represented by Forty One (Arg), last seen hammering the competition by seven lengths in the G1 GP General San Martin over this trip at Palermo Sept. 2.

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