Catch a Glimpse to get winter break

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Catch a Glimpse, the winner of Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, was doing well Saturday morning, trainer Mark Casse said, along with stablemates Airoforce and Conquest Daddyo, who ran second and fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.

Catch a Glimpse earned an 85 Beyer Speed Figure for her Juvenile Fillies Turf victory, in which she rated just off the pace, kicked clear in early stretch, and outlasted late bids from runner-up Alice Springs and third-place Nemoralia.

As Casse noted in a press conference Friday, Catch a Glimpse will get a rest this winter, though he said Saturday he hadn’t decided whether to send her to Ocala, Fla., or to keep her with a string of horses he keeps in south Florida. He said goals and races for next year are also undecided.

Plans for Airoforce and Conquest Daddyo are a little more definitive, with Conquest Daddyo, a Canadian-bred, having the Queen’s Plate at Woodbine next summer as a long-term goal and Airoforce likely to get an opportunity on dirt at some point down the road.

“I’m going to take Airoforce to south Florida,” Casse said. “There’s a good chance we’ll see him on the dirt. He trains well on it, and so we’ll probably give him a chance. I have no reason to think he won’t like it.”

Although all three of his starts have come on grass, Airoforce has a dirt pedigree, being by Colonel John and out of the Cuvee mare Chocolate Pop, who was twice stakes-placed on dirt.

Conquest Daddyo will be freshened in Ocala over the winter, Casse said.