Terry Hamilton's Heart to Heart (English Channel) will look for a third straight Grade I victory in Monday's GI Shoemaker Mile, a Win and You're In event for the GI Breeders' Cup Mile. Third in last year's Shoemaker Mile, the 7-year-old went on to win the GII Bernard Baruch H. and was second in the GI Shadwell Turf Mile before concluding his season with a 10th-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Mile at Del Mar in November. After opening 2018 with a seventh-place effort in the Jan. 13 GII Ft. Lauderdale S., he went on to win the Feb. 10 GI Gulfstream Park Turf and was a wire-to-wire victor in the Apr. 13 GI Maker's 46 Mile at Keeneland.
Bowies Hero (Artie Schiller) owns a pair of graded wins over the Shoemaker's one-mile distance over the Santa Anita turf. The 4-year-old won the GII Mathis Brothers Mile in Arcadia last December and is coming off a determined score in the Mar. 10 Frank Kilroe Mile.
The lightly raced Arms Runner (Overdriven), a stakes winner down the hill turf course at Santa Anita last May, blew the start and came home seventh in his lone attempt to stretch out in the Oceanside S. at Del Mar last July. He returned 10 months later to finish fourth down the hill in a May 3 optional claimer last time out.
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