Michael “The Wizard” Kipness, a professional horse racing handicapper since 1986, analyzes the nine-horse field for Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Classic, designating each horse as a contender or pretender.

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Post position, horse, jockey, morning-line odds:

Program #1: Fierceness, Velazquez, 5-2

Except for a fifth-place finish in the Gr. 1 Whitney at Saratoga, the 4-year-old has been nothing short of pure excellence for quite some time. His second-place finish in last year’s BC Classic was a great performance in defeat. He was run down late by the deep closer Sierra Leone after being he

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