Six Europeans and eight North Americans comprise the 14 horses currently in the main body of a predictably oversubscribed 2018 edition of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf. In all, 22 horses were pre-entered in the race at Monday's noon deadline.

Aidan O'Brien, a four-time winner of the Juvenile Turf, pre-entered two prime contenders. Anthony Van Dyke, most recently third in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket, would figure to be favored over Broome, who set the pace and finished second to Royal Marine in the Group 1 Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp.

Reached by phone last week, O’Brien deemed Anthony Van Dyke an unlikely runner in the race while mentioning Broome as a candidate. That's a situation we'll need to monitor in coming days.

The other overseas horses in the race as of Wednesday are Arthur Kitt, Line of Duty, Marie’s Diamond, and The Black Album. 

Current won the Grade 3 Bourbon Stakes earlier this month at Keeneland, a Breeders’ Cup Challenge “Win and You’re In” race and is the only Challenge winner in the field. Todd Pletcher trains him as well as With Anticipation Stakes-winner Opry, who was among the 13 horses chosen for the field’s main body by the Breeders’ Cup panel charged with ranking pre-entered horses in oversubscribed races like the Juvenile Turf.

The other North American-based horses chosen by the panel are Forty Under, winner of the Pilgrim Stakes at Belmont; Kentucky Downs Juvenile Stakes-winner Henley’s Joy; Zuma Beach Stakes-winner King of Speed; Pilgrim runner-up Somelikeithotbrown; Futurity Stakes-winner Uncle Benny; and War of Will, most recently fourth in the Bourbon.

The pre-entrants not selected by the panel and ranked in order of preference are Much Better, Louder Than Bombs, Tracksmith, Order and Law, Flying Scotsman, Empire of War, and Pico Entry. Two also-eligibles are permitted in the final entries.

The Juvenile Turf on Churchill’s seven-furlong grass oval is contested at one mile