Tomoya Ozasa's T O Elvis (Volatile), a breathtaking winner of the GI Churchill Downs Stakes on May 2, has been given an entry for the $1-million G3 Korea Sprint (1200m) at Seoul Racecourse Sept. 6, one of three potential avenues towards an expected appearance in the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint at Keeneland on Oct. 31.Winner at home of the G3 Capella Stakes, for which he earned an automatic berth in the G2 Riyadh Dirt Sprint, T O Elvis gave that contest a miss in favor of the G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen this past March, but connections opted out of that race as well, owing to the ongoing hostilities in the region at the time.Instead, the 4-year-old, bred in Kentucky by Jeff and Melissa Prunzik, was entered for the Churchill Downs Stakes, where he faced the likes of Knightsbridge (Nyquist), Riyadh Dirt Sprint hero Imagination (Good Magic) and G2 Godolphin Mile victor Banishing (Ghostzapper). Off at under 6-1 from a 30-1 morning line, T O Elvis sat handy enough to the pace and opened up at will when set down by Ryusei Sakai to score by 3 1/4 lengths, covering the seven furlongs in stakes-record time of 1:20.49 that nearly eclipsed the track record of 1:20.44 held by the outstanding Groupie Doll.The Korea Cup is a Breeders' Cup Challenge race for the Sprint, as is the seven-furlong $250,000 GIII Vosburgh Stakes at the new Belmont Park on Sept. 26, a race previously mentioned as a prep for the Sprint. It is also conceivable that trainer Daisuke Takayanagi elects to pass both of those races in favor of training T O Elvis up to the Breeders' Cup.According to the Japanese website Umatoku, Takayanagi is expected to join Yoshito Yahagi, trainer of defending GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner Forever Young (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}), on a trip to the U.S. next month to inspect training facilities.Japanese-based horses have won four of the eight renewals of the Korea Sprint. The post T O Elvis Given Korean Option En Route To Breeders’ Cup appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.