Nine Europeans were among 21 pre-entrants into the Breeders' Cup Mile and as many as seven stand a good chance of lining up in the starting gate Nov. 3 at Churchill Downs.

The list of pre-entrants includes a dozen North American-based horses headed by Woodbine Mile winner Oscar Performance. The other domestically based pre-entries are Almanaar, Analyze It, A Raving Beauty, Catapult, Divisidero, Great Wide Open, Hembree, Hunt, Next Shares, Qurbaan, and Sharp Samurai.

A Raving Beauty (Filly and Mare Turf) and Hembree (Turf Sprint) were entered with the Mile as second preference. Hembree has virtually no chance of getting into the Mile in any case.

The nine Europeans entered are Clemmie, Expert Eye, Gustav Klimt, Happily, I Can Fly, Lightning Spear, Mustashry, One Master, and Polydream.

Fourteen can start in the race, run around two turns on Churchill’s seven-furlong turf oval, the same circumference as the Del Mar course over which the BC Mile was contested in 2017.

Horses with guaranteed spots through the Breeders’ Cup Challenge series are Next Shares (Shadwell Turf Mile), Oscar Performance (Woodbine Mile), Hunt (Shoemaker Mile), and Lightning Spear (Sussex Stakes).

Also assured of a place in the field are Catapult, and Sharp Samurai, the top earners in North American graded-stakes races that aren’t Challenge Race winners.

The other eight Mile starting slots as determined by the Breeder’s Cup Racing Secretaries and Directors Panel went to A Raving Beauty, Analyze It, Expert Eye, Gustav Klimt, Happily, I Can Fly, One Master, and Polydream.

Not selected into the field’s main body, in ranked order, were Mustashry, Almanaar, Divisidero, Clemmie, Qurbaan, Great Wide Open, and Hembree. If A Raving Beauty goes into the Filly and Mare Turf, her connections’ first preference, Mustashry gets into the Mile with Almanaar and Divisidero the two also-eligibles.

Notable absentees are France-based Recoletos, who had been near the top of British bookmaking markets, and Fly to Mars, second by a nose in the Oct. 6 City of Hope Mile.

None of the 14 runners in the 2017 BC Mile were among the pre-entered horses this year.