Article: Tamarisk in shock Cup knockout; Handicappers reject top sprinter for Breeders' line-up following failure on dirt.(Sports)

TAMARISK, the leading three-year-old sprinter in Europe this year, paid an extraordinary price yesterday for his dirt debut failure this month when he was denied a place in the field for the $1 million Breeders' Cup Sprint in Kentucky.

He was surprisingly absent from the names of the 14 automatic qualifiers, released yesterday, and is not even first reserve to compete at Churchill Downs on Saturday week.

Instead the Jack Berry-trained Bolshoi, twice beaten by Tamarisk this year and runner-up to the colt in the Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock last month, will ...

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