ARCADIA, Calif. -- Play his horses the other 364 days of the year, and Bobby Frankel will reward you consistently. Bet him on Breeders' Cup day, and you mumble to yourself in disgust and rip up tickets.

It happened again Saturday, perhaps the most disturbing installment of Frankel's misery on a day when the world is watching the sport he rules the rest of the time. The damage: eight runners, eight losers, stretching his Cup record to a shockingly rotten 2-for-57. On Sunday he heads for Barbados to honeymoon with the former Bonita Boniface. Getting away never seemed like such a good idea.

Only Medaglia d'Oro, a game second to Pleasantly Perfect in the $4-million Classic, provided a consolation prize for the 62-year-old Hall of Famer. None of the others ever looked like a contender or finished in the money.

"I have no idea what happened," Frankel said after Sightseek ran a lifeless fourth in the Distaff, the first Cup race of the day. That's a perfect epitaph for his entire afternoon.

A leg injury kept Azeri, the defending Horse of the Year, out of the Distaff, and Sightseek didn't show up, either, guaranteeing Azeri her second consecutive Eclipse Award as top older filly and mare. Sightseek was sent off at 3-5 odds and ran like a 40-1 shot, the opposite of what wire-to-wire winner Adoration did under jockey Patrick Valenzuela. Sightseek trudged in fourth, 10 lengths behind the unchallenged Adoration, who paid $83.40 after beating Elloluv by 4-1/2.

Five minutes into the 20th Breeders' Cup and Frankel's record on the big day fell to 2-for-50 with the horse who looked like his best chance on the card. Sighsteek had won five consecutive Grade I races and was training brilliantly at Hollywood Park. Santa Anita isn't her track, though, because she's winless there in four tries, with three seconds preceding this dud.

Though the upset disgusted chalk players and Frankel fans, it thrilled show bettors who received unexpected windfalls -- $25.80 on Adoration, $12.20 on Elloluv and $6.80 on second choice Got Koko – when Sightseek finished out of the money for the first time in 13 career starts.

"She broke well today but got pushed in behind a wall of horses going into the first turn," rider Jerry Bailey said, "although that's where I wanted to be. I sensed the slow pace and that's when I pulled her out on the backside, but I didn't have any horse. I never had a confident feeling."

In the Mile, it got even worse for Frankel, whose Peace Rules finished last of 14 at 3-1 after setting blazing fractions (:22.28, :45.40, 1:09.41) into the stretch. "He had the rail and that hurt us," rider Edgar Prado said. "They pressured us the whole way. He never got a breather."

It was the third consecutive losing favorite saddled by Frankel, whose Nasty Storm was last at 2-1 in the day's first race, a $100,000 sprint handicap that went off at the ungodly hour of 9:40 a.m. Wait, make that four straight worthless faves for Frankel, whose stable was burning millions. Deep closer Aldebaran couldn't take advantage of a blazing pace and finished sixth for Bailey in the Sprint behind 22-1 Cajun Beat. "A sixteenth past the wire," Bailey said, "we were ahead of all of them." They don't pay off for that, so it didn't help those who backed Aldebaran down to 2-1. Frankel's other Sprint runner, Midas Eyes, also was nowhere, coming in eighth after never being closer than fourth.

Frankel had three chances to get off the schneid in the Filly&Mare Turf, when he ran Heat Haze, Tates Creek and Megahertz. They came in fourth, fifth and eighth, respectively, behind the European trio of favored Islington, 46-1 L'Ancresse and 14-1 Yesterday. At least Frankel broke his string of losing favorites, since his three went off at 7-1, 16-1 and 9/2.

Bailey, on Heat Haze, said, "She had no excuses …. She had a good trip." Alex Solis, who rode Megahertz, said, "She was just sluggish today,'' a comment that fit all of Frankel's horses except for Medaglia d'Oro.

With no runners in the Juvenile or the Turf, it was up to Medaglia d'Oro to ease Frankel's pain in the Classic. Even running second in North America's richest race and an $800,000 winner's share didn't come close to salvaging the day.

"I don't have anything to say right now," Frankel said after the Classic before apologizing and excusing himself.

Considering what he had just gone through, who could blame him? Some things just can't be explained, even in the illogical universe of thoroughbred racing.