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Don't Tell Sophia to skip Pippin Stakes

Mary Rampellini|Jan 14, 2015

Don't Tell Sophia training at Santa Anita on Oct. 27

Barbara D. Livingston Don't Tell Sophia will try to add to an already productive year when she starts in Thursday's Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs.

Eclipse Award finalist Don’t Tell Sophia had been targeting the $100,000 Pippin at Oaklawn on Saturday for her first start of the year, but weather-related training disruptions led trainer Phil Sims to skip the race with her when entries were taken Wednesday.

Sims said Don’t Tell Sophia likely will make her next start in the Bayakoa, a $100,000 race for fillies and mares Feb. 15. This year, the race has been elevated in status to a Grade 3.

Don’t Tell Sophia became a Grade 1 winner last fall at Keeneland in the Spinster. She went on to finish a big second in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff and is a finalist for champion older female of 2014. The Pippin drew a field of nine fillies and mares for Saturday, with the Grade 1 winner Spring in the Air breaking from post 5 for trainer Mark Casse.

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