Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies: Sweet Reason stretches legs

Sweet Reason, the morning-line favorite for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies who worked a slow mile Sunday, stretched her legs through the lane Thursday, going an easy quarter in 27.36 seconds from the top of the stretch to the wire.

Sweet Reason was on the track for an extended period Thursday as the equine ambulance was on the track when another horse, not running in the Breeders’ Cup, needed to be vanned off.

After visiting the starting gate, Sweet Reason stayed alongside a pony until horses were allowed to breeze.

“I just told the rider to get her around there,” trainer Leah Gyarmati said. “After all of that, I didn’t want her tying up. She doesn’t need much. She’ll be fine.”

Sweet Reason won her first two starts over a sloppy track before finishing second after a troubled start in the Grade 1 Frizette.

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Sweet Reason will be ridden by jockey Alex Solis, who has not won a Breeders’ Cup race since taking the Classic here in 2003 on a day when he also dead-heated for win in the BC Turf. Solis is 0 for 23 since then, his most recent mount being a fifth-place finish in the 2011 Classic aboard the favored Flat Out.