Edgeway will train up to BC Filly and Mare Sprint; may be sold at auction

Edgeway, winner of the Grade 3 Rancho Bernardo Handicap for the second consecutive year at Del Mar last month, will not race again until the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Nov. 5 at Keeneland, trainer John Sadler wrote in a text message over the weekend.

The BC Filly and Mare Sprint may be Edgeway’s final start for Hronis Racing. Kosta Hronis said in a text on Monday that Edgeway is entered to be sold at auction at Keeneland in the days after the Breeders’ Cup, but a decision on whether she goes through the sales ring will be made at the last minute.

A five-time stakes winner, the 5-year-old Edgeway was second in the BC Filly and Mare Sprint at Del Mar last November, losing by 2 1/2 lengths to Ce Ce.

The Rancho Bernardo was Edgeway’s third stakes win in four starts this year. On Saturday at Santa Anita, Edgeway worked a half-mile in 48.40 seconds, her first workout since a half-length win in the Rancho Bernardo Handicap over Slammed.

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Edgeway has won 8 of 13 starts and earned $753,680.

Immediate race plans have not been finalized for Ce Ce, the champion female sprinter of 2021. On Sunday at Santa Anita, Ce Ce worked a half-mile in 48.40 seconds in her first major exercise since a disappointing fifth as the 3-2 favorite in the Grade 1 Ballerina Stakes for fillies and mares on Aug. 28 at Saratoga.

Trainer Michael McCarthy said in text message Sunday the Grade 3 Chillingworth Stakes for fillies and mares at 6 1/2 furlongs on Oct. 2 at Santa Anita is “a possibility.”

Ce Ce won the 2021 Chillingworth by five lengths at 1-5 in what amounted to a trial for the BC Filly and Mare Sprint. Ce Ce earned a fees-paid berth to the BC Filly and Mare Sprint with a win in the Grade 2 Princess Rooney Stakes on July 2 at Gulfstream Park, a race she also won in 2021.