Bourbon Breeze looks for third straight win

Judge a horse by the company she keeps and Bourbon Breeze rates an upset chance in the featured eighth race Sunday at Churchill.

Granted, she was hard ridden just to stay in contact with him to the wire, but Bourbon Breeze on May 23 worked in company with Grade 2-winning sprinter World Record.

That ambitious morning assignment came following back-to-back wins from Bourbon Breeze after trainer Rodolphe Brisset dropped a $30,000 claim on the Omaha Beach filly for his September Farm and Michael Motley’s Motley Crew Stable.

Bourbon Breeze won a Keeneland starter race fresh off the claim, then captured a first-level Churchill allowance on May 2, winning by 2 1/2 lengths. She’s entered under an $80,000 claiming option Sunday in a 6 1/2-furlong dash contested under second-level allowance conditions.

Bourbon Breeze drew the outside post in a field of nine and should sit a good stalking trip in a race that, on paper, looks wide open.

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