Cavorting heading straight to Breeders' Cup

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin ran Cavorting in Sunday’s Grade 2 Prioress four weeks after she won the Grade 1 Test, and it worked out perfectly as Cavorting won the $300,000 Prioress by two lengths.

That effort, for which she earned a 98 Beyer Speed Figure, will be Cavorting’s last race before the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Oct. 31 at Keeneland.

“It worked out great,” McLaughlin said Monday. “Now, we have time until the Breeders’ Cup. She does well with time. I just wish the Breeders’ Cup was at Saratoga.”

Cavorting is 3 for 3 at Saratoga, all in graded stakes. At 2, she won the Grade 2 Adirondack there.

McLaughlin said Cavorting will soon ship to Belmont to do the bulk of her training for the Breeders’ Cup. Saratoga’s main track closes for training Friday.

Meanwhile, the McLaughlin-trained Wedding Toast, the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps winner, continues to prepare for her start in the Grade 1 Beldame on Sept. 26. Last Friday, Wedding Toast breezed five furlongs in 1:00.40 over the synthetic surface at the Greentree training facility adjacent to the Saratoga backstretch.

Wedding Toast is being considered for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Oct. 30.