ARCADIA, Calif. -- California Chrome is undefeated in six starts this year. Arrogate is 4 of 5 and won the Travers with the fastest time in the races 147-year history.The 2014 Horse of the Year and the young challenger are set to face off in the Breeders Cup Classic.The 1 \\-mile Classic worth $6 million is the richest of 13 races to be run Saturday at Santa Anita, the ninth time the track has hosted the world championships. The race will be shown live in prime time on NBC.California Chrome is the early even-money favorite with a chance to expand his career earnings of more than $13.4 million, which already make the 5-year-old horse the richest in North American history.Arrogate is a late-developing 3-year-old gray colt who didnt run as a juvenile. His first start didnt come until April, when he finished third. Hes won his four subsequent starts by over 23 lengths.His record speaks for itself, his jockey Mike Smith said. Hes been training unbelievably. Hell need to repeat the race he ran in the Travers to beat California Chrome and the others, but hes got the talent.Arrogate drew the far outside post in the 10-horse field. He is the 5-2 second choice and will try to deliver a record third straight victory in the Classic for trainer Bob Baffert as the only 3-year-old in the race.California Chrome will break from post No. 4 under Victor Espinoza, who rode American Pharoah to Triple Crown glory last year.Hes going to be very difficult to outrun, Smith said. If theres anyone that has a chance to upset the apple cart, I think Im on the right horse.California Chrome finished third in the Classic two years ago at the end of his 3-year-old season, in which he won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness and finished in a dead-heat for fourth in the Belmont.He only got beaten a neck, but he wasnt at his best mentally, trainer Art Sherman said of Chromes previous Classic run. He shipped around a lot that year and went through the Triple Crown races. Theres such a difference between how hes coming into this years Classic and then.Now hes got his game face on when he gets to the paddock. Hes all business; he knows what he has to do. He brings his `A game. Chrome is bigger and stronger than ever. The way he runs now, hes become a push button horse; hell do whatever Victor asks of him, Sherman said.Arrogate exploded onto the national scene in the Travers in August, winning by 13 \\ lengths at Saratoga while setting a track record in the process.Hell have to be really good to beat Chrome, Baffert said. Now I know how the other guys felt last year when I had American Pharoah.Baffert won last years Classic with Triple Crown champion American Pharoah and the 2014 edition with Bayern.Besides Arrogate, Baffert will saddle Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Hoppertunity in the Classic.Other Classic starters are: last years runner-up Effinex; Met Mile and Whitney winner Frosted; Keen Ice (fourth last year); Gold Cup winner Melatonin; Shaman Ghost; War Story; and Win the Space.In the $2 million Filly & Mare Turf, Lady Eli tries to continue her successful return from a life-threatening illness as the early 5-2 favorite for the 1 \\-mile race.The 4-year-old fillys career was stalled for 13 months because of laminitis, a hoof ailment that led to the death of 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro. Lady Eli, winner of the 2014 BC Juvenile Fillies Turf, beat the odds and returned in late August to finish second in the Ballston Spa at Saratoga.She followed that up with a victory in the Flower Bowl Invitational at Belmont last month. Her owners plan to keep her racing next year.It already is an incredible story, but it would have an incredible new chapter if she is able to do this, trainer Chad Brown said. 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