Two-time Breeders' Cup Mile winner Goldikova will attempt to become the first horse in history to win three Breeders' Cup races next year as her owners, the Wertheimer brothers, announced Monday that the daughter of Anabaa would remain in training at the age of 5.

Trained by Freddy Head, Goldikova has won five other Group 1 races in France and England in addition to her consecutive triumphs in the Mile - the Prix Rothschild twice, the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, the Prix Jacques le Marois, and the Falmouth Stakes. It is likely that she will be campaigned strictly at a mile in 2010 as her two efforts at other distances this year, the 1 1/8-mile, 55-yard Prix d'Ispahan and the seven-furlong Prix de la Foret, resulted in defeat.

Head has reported from his Chantilly training base that Goldikova has recovered well from her recent exertions at Santa Anita and will spend the winter at the Wertheimer's stud farm in Normandy. William Hill, picking up on the news that she will run again next year, immediately installed her as its 3-1 favorite to complete her Breeders' Cup Mile triple.

The Mile is the Breeders' Cup race in which repeat victories are most common. The Francois Boutin-trained Miesque, who was ridden by Head, got the ball rolling with wins in 1987 and 1988. Lure followed with a double for trainer Shug McGaughey and jockey Mike Smith in 1992 and 1993. And Michael Dickinson trained Da Hoss to victories in 1996 and 1998. Horses trained in France have won eight of the 26 Miles to date.

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