Dreaming of Julia to miss Ruffian

Dreaming of Julia, a multiple graded stakes winner last year, will not make her 4-year-old debut in Sunday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Ruffian Stakes as expected due to a “little infection,” according to trainer Todd Pletcher.

Dreaming of Julia, who won the Grade 2 Gulfstream Oaks by 21 3/4 lengths in 2013, has not run since finishing second to Close Hatches in the Grade 1 Mother Goose last June at Belmont.

Wedding Toast, another filly whose connections were at one point considering the Ruffian, will skip the race to point to the Grade 1, $1 million Ogden Phipps here June 7. The connections of Wedding Toast – Godolphin Racing and trainer Kiaran McLaughlin – will be represented in the Ruffian by Six Queens, a recent allowance winner at Aqueduct on April 10.