Racing: A rematch between Falbrav and High Chaparral is on the cards at Santa Anita on Saturday.

Falbrav's trainer Luca Cumani has confirmed his stable star a runner in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Turf, a race which has long been the target of High Chaparral. The two last met in the controversial Ireland The Food Island Champion Stakes at Leopardstown last month, when Aidan O'Brien's colt beat Falbrav by a neck.

Connections of Falbrav had been mulling over a possible tilt at the Breeders' Cup Classic, which is over 10 furlongs on dirt - a surface the son of Fairy King has not encountered in public before - but they have instead opted for the mile-and-a-half Turf.

"He will go in the Turf," Cumani said. "The owners decided that it was the most sensible course of action as we would have been guessing a bit on the dirt."

The news has delighted jockey Darryll Holland, who said before boarding his plane for America: "From my point of view, I'm thrilled Falbrav is going on the turf. It will be rock hard, which he'll love.

"I rode at Santa Anita for three seasons as an apprentice so I know the track well and I'm not at all worried about the distance of a mile and a half."

Falbrav's odds have been cut to 9 to 4 from 11 to 4 for the prestigious contest. He shares favouritism with Storming Home, who won last season's Champion Stakes for Barry Hills but is now trained in the United States by Neil Drysdale. Godolphin's Sulamani is next in the betting on 5 to 2, with High Chaparral, who won the race at Arlington last year, a 5 to 1 chance.

"Basically, I'm on the best horse in the race and I'm not sure Sulamani or High Chaparral want hard ground," Holland added. "My chap will love it, and he's a jet-setter who knows how to look after himself."

Since joining Cumani at the beginning of the year, Falbrav, successful in the 2002 Japan Cup, has recorded victories at the highest level in the Prix d'Ispahan, Coral-Eclipse Stakes, Juddmonte International Stakes and the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

Falbrav's only attempt at the Turf trip this season came when he finished fifth in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot on unsuitably soft ground.

His most recent victory came in the QEII over a mile at Ascot at the end of September.

O'Brien, meanwhile, has confirmed that American jockey Edgar Prado will renew his association with Hold That Tiger in the Classic.

Prado rode Hold That Tiger, third in last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile under Kieren Fallon, when the colt was second to Mineshaft in the Woodward Stakes at Belmont Park last month.

O'Brien said: "When Edgar rode the horse that day we told him he could ride the horse in the Classic if he wanted to, and he does want to. We promised him the ride if things went well at Belmont."

Hold That Tiger is a top-priced 10 to 1 chance for the Classic.

O'Brien also outlined other riding arrangements for his Breeders' Cup runners. "Mick Kinane rides Yesterday in the Filly and Mare Turf and High Chaparral in the Turf," he said.

Kinane is also booked for the ride on Statue Of Liberty in the Mile, but O'Brien warned: "Statue Of Liberty is only first reserve, and we'll find out tomorrow if he gets a run."

O'Brien also runs L'Ancresse, winner of the Finale Stakes at the Curragh last time, in the Filly and Mare Turf, but riding arrangements have yet to be made for the Irish Oaks second.

L'Ancresse was a late addition to the team and O'Brien added: "She's come out of her race at the Curragh so well we decided to let her take her chance."

Godolphin's two hopefuls for the Breeders' Cup will work at Belmont Park in New York before heading for California today.

Sulamani, a major contender for the Turf, and Mezzo Soprano, who runs in the Filly & Mare Turf, will have their final serious spins tomorrow.