Flower Bowl, E.P. Taylor among options for Edisa

ELMONT, N.Y. – Edisa, the three-quarter-length winner of Saturday’s $750,000 Jockey Club Oaks Invitational, left New York on Sunday to return to France, but her trainer, Alain de Royer-Dupre, said the 3-year-old filly could possibly return to North America for her next start.

Royer-Dupre mentioned the Grade 1, $500,000 Flower Bowl at Belmont on Oct. 6 and the Grade 1, $600,000 E.P. Taylor at Woodbine on Oct. 12 as possible next starts for Edisa. She could also stay home and run in the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera at Longchamp on Oct. 6. Royer-Dupre won the 2010 E.P Taylor with Reggane.

Royer-Dupre said he would monitor the weather at all locales as he reiterated that his filly doesn’t like soft ground, though she won the Jockey Club Oaks over ground labeled good. Edisa, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Kitten’s Joy, earned an 87 Beyer Speed Figure for her victory.

“She’s a mini Kitten’s Joy, she has a good mind and is very easy to train,” Royer-Dupre said Sunday from France.

Royer-Dupre said the competition in any of her next races would get more difficult as she would be facing older fillies and mares.

“In a Group 1, you go against better horses,” Royer-Dupre said.