Frizette winner Scottish Lassie to target Gulfstream's 3-year-old filly stakes series

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Scottish Lassie, fourth as the second choice in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, is getting a month off at a farm in Ocala, Fla., and then will likely use the South Florida road to the Kentucky Oaks, trainer Jorge Abreu said Friday.

Scottish Lassie won the Grade 1 Frizette by nine lengths at Aqueduct in October. Sent off the second choice in the Breeders’ Cup, Scottish Lassie might have moved a little too soon into a hot pace under Jose Lezcano and that likely cost her late as she finished fourth, seven lengths behind the winner, Immersive.

“Crazy pace and he was too close,” Abreu said. “Probably weren’t going to beat [Immersive] but she probably could have been second. My filly’s better than that.”

Abreu said Scottish Lassie is getting 30 days off at Tom McCrocklin’s farm in Ocala and will join him at the Palm Meadows training center in Florida before the end of the year.

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Abreu said he would likely point to Gulfstream’s series of stakes for 3-year-old fillies, including the Davona Dale on March 1 and Gulfstream Park Oaks on March 29 in an attempt to qualify for the Kentucky Oaks next May.

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