Look Who's Talking earns time off until turf season

Look Who’s Talking, the winner of the Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship on Dec. 26, is going to be given a breather before she begins her 3-year-old season, according to trainer Robin Graham.

The Juvenile Filly Championship was the sixth start and the first stakes win for Look Who’s Talking, who won her career debut at Laurel Park in August.

“It looks like we’re going to give her a couple of weeks off and then bring her back and look to the turf in the spring,” Graham said. “She’s got a long 3-year-old season ahead of her, and it’s a good time to give her a break.”

Look Who’s Talking is by Cape Blanco, the Eclipse Award-winning male turf runner of 2011 who raced for Aidan O’Brien. Cape Blanco stood at Ashford Stud from 2012-14 but is now based in Japan.

Look Who’s Talking is owned and was bred by the Skeedattle Associates of Willie White, Lou Rehak, and Bob Orndorff of Clarksville, Md. Skeedattle Associates goes back three generations with her family.

Skeedattle Associates bought Gin Talking, the second dam of Look Who’s Talking, for $40,000 at the 1998 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale. She won 7 of 11 starts, including six stakes, and was named Maryland-bred Horse of the Year in 2000.

Gin Talking produced Smooth Talking, the dam of Look Who’s Talking. Smooth Talking was 2 for 5, with both of her wins coming on turf.

Gin Talking also has produced Dixie Talking, who won three of four starts, including the Grade 3 Cicada in 2005 and the Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship in 2004. Dixie Talking is the dam of Done Talking, the winner of the 2012 Illinois Derby and the 14th-place finisher in that year’s Kentucky Derby for Skeedattle and trainer Hamilton Smith.

Laurel runs a stakes named for Gin Talking each year. Cathryn Sophia won the 2015 edition on Dec. 5.

Lady Sabelia fresh for Fritchie

Graham said that Lady Sabelia is on target to defend her title in the Grade 2, $300,000 Barbara Fritchie Stakes on Feb. 13.

Lady Sabelia, a 6-year-old daughter of Majestic Warrior, returned from a five-month layoff to win her last two starts, the $100,000 Pumpkin Pie Stakes at Belmont Park on Nov. 1 and the $100,000 Willa On the Move at Laurel on Dec. 5.

Although Lady Sabelia has not worked since the Willa On the Move, Graham said that is by design.

“She’s doing fine, and we plan on having her in the gate for the Fritchie,” she said. “We’re just taking it easy with her now. She runs so good fresh, there’s no rush.”