Coal Battle (Coal Front), a contender for the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, breezed five furlongs at Keeneland on Thursday morning. Sent out after the second maintenance period, the 4-year-old covered the distance in 1:00, the fastest of four moves at the distance.“He did the work pretty easy,” Lonnie Briley said while following Coal Battle back to the barn. “He will walk [Friday] and jog the next day and just do our regular routine. I was hoping he would go in 1:01 or 1:02. But 1:00 flat was a little quick. He looked like he did it pretty good, pretty easy.”Coal Battle finished second by a head to Bishops Bay in the Sept. 26 GIII Ack Ack at Churchill Downs. He breezed 5 furlongs in 1:04.80 Oct. 14 at Keeneland after coming to Lexington from Briley's barn at Ellis Park.The winner of five of 16 starts and $1,442,150, Coal Battle finished 11th in last year's GI Kentucky Derby after winning theSmarty Jones Stakes and the GII Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park.Coal Battle is one of 16 runners pre-entered for the Dirt Mile and ranks second on the preference list of horses not selected into the field by the Breeders' Cup Racing Directors/Secretaries Panel.Also working toward a Breeders' Cup engagement, Canada (Medaglia d'Oro) breezed a half-mile in :48.40 at Keeneland Thursday. Trained by Mark Casse, the colt worked in company with an unraced juvenile by Mandaloun (Now Now Romeo).The move was the fastest of 19 at the distance on Thursday.The winner of the Oct. 4 Cup & Saucer at Woodbine in his second start, Canada is 22nd on the list of runners pre-entered for the $1-million Brown Advisory GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf. Casse has another race picked for the Ontario-bred colt.“It doesn't look like he's going to get in the Breeders' Cup so he's going to run in the undercard stakes, the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Stakes,” Casse said of the one-mile stakes on the turf for 2-year-olds.Casse also confirmed Voyager (Justify), winner of the GI Johnny Walker Natalma Stakes on the turf Sept. 12 at Woodbine, would run in the $2-million GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies on the dirt. The 2-year-old, a $300,000 purchase by D.J. Stable at the 2025 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale, was pre entered in the Juvenile Fillies and the GI John DeereBreeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.“She's a good horse,” Casse said. “And she worked as good as a horse can work on the dirt. Her first two races on the dirt were good.”Voyager finished second in her debut going 5½ furlongs on the dirt at Churchill Downs before a second to Harper's Corner in the Schuylerville Stakes at six furlongs on the dirt at Saratoga. She made her last two starts on the grass, winning a 1 1/16-mile maiden at Saratoga before the Natalma. The post Coal Battle, Canada Work Toward Breeders’ Cup Day Card, Voyager to Juvenile Fillies appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.