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Artie Schiller rebounds to win Mile 10/29/2005 4:48:16 PM NEW YORK (AP-CP) - Artie Schiller, the beaten favourite last year, rebounded Saturday to win the $2,025,000 US Breeders' Cup Mile, ending Atto Mile champion Leroidesanimaux's eight-race win streak. Artie Schiller joined Intercontinental as upset winners of Breeders' Cup grass races. Artie Schiller gave Garrett Gomez his second Breeders' Cup win of the day. He won earlier aboard Stevie Wonderboy in the Juvenile. Gomez got the mount when regular rider Richard Migliore was sidelined with a leg injury. In the Breeders' Cup last year at Lone Star Park, Artie Schiller was unlucky as he had traffic trouble in both turns. Fortune turned his way this year Gomez found room in the lane to angle out and edge past Leroidesanimaux for the 3/4-length victory. "As soon as I got out at the top of the lane, he did the rest," Gomez said. Artie Schiller ran the mile over the good course in 1:36.10 and paid $13.20, posting his fifth win in eight turf races at Belmont. The four-year-old colt earned $1,053,000 for the Timber Bay Farm and Mrs. Thomas J. Walsh. It was the first Breeders' Cup win for the Jerkens family. Trainer Jimmy Jerkens is the son of Hall of Fame trainer H. Allen Jerkens. Leroidesanimaux, always forwardly placed in the race, took a narrow lead turning for home. The Brazilian-bred horse held second by a nose over Gorella. "He never really settled," said John Velazquez, Leroidesanimaux' jockey. "It was unfortunate." Leroidesanimaux dominated the Atto Mile last month at Toronto's Woodbine Racetrack to earn his eighth straight win. He horse surged into second at the start, took the lead heading to the top of the turn, then cruised to a comfortable 7½-length win on a yielding course, the largest margin of victory in race history. Leroidesanimaux posted a time of 1:35.08 in that race. Host, owned by Toronto's Eugene Melnyk, also owns the NHL's Ottawa Senators, also ran in the race, finishing seventh, just ahead of Singletary, last year's Mile winner, who was eighth. Funfair suffered a broken hind leg during the Mile and was euthanized on the track. The horse from Britain, ridden by Edgar Prado, pulled up along the backstretch shortly after the race began. Prado dismounted, and the injured six-year-old gelding continued running around the track as the race continued. Prado was uninjured, and returned to finish second aboard Society Selection in the Distaff. Funfair was finally stopped by track personnel, but the injury proved untreatable and the horse was euthanized on the track. "He sustained an open fracture of the right behind cannon bone," said Dr. C. Wayne McIlwraith, the Belmont Park veterinarian. He described it as "a catastrophic injury." Trainer Bobby Frankel won his fourth Breeders' Cup as Intercontinental spoiled Ouija Board's bid for a repeat victory in the $1,060,000 Filly & Mare Turf. Intercontinental paid $32.20 to win, posting the biggest upset in the seven-year history of the race. The five-year-old mare scored a front-running victory as jockey Rafael Bejarano skillfully rated the pace en route to his first Breeders' Cup victory. Bejarano got the often headstrong Intercontinental relaxed enough to carry her speed 1¼ miles on the good course. "He couldn't have rode a better race," said Frankel, who has saddled 65 Breeders' Cup runners. "She had never been a mile-and-a-quarter before. I wasn't really comfortable until five jumps from the wire." Intercontinental won by 1¼ lengths. The time was 2:02.40. Ouija Board, the defending champion and 2-1 favorite, made a strong run in the lane but had to settle for second. Film Maker was third. Intercontinental earned $551,200 for breeder-owner Juddmonte Farms. Sundrop was taken away by van following the race. The attending veterinarians reported she was "leg weary" but otherwise fine. Shirocco won the $2.28 million Turf by 13/4 lengths. Shirocco, bred in Germany by owner Baron Georg von Ullmann, returned $19.60 for French jockey Christophe Soumillon and trainer Andre Fabre. Shirocco ran the 1½ miles on the good course in 2:29.30 and earned $1,185,600. The first four finishers all hailed from Europe. The Irish-bred Ace was second, followed by Azamour. Bago from France was fourth.