Significant Form kicks off 3-year-old campaign

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – In the hierarchy of 3-year-old turf fillies in trainer Chad Brown’s barn, the perception is there’s Rushing Fall – and then there’s everybody else.

Significant Form may be the best of the rest. Fourth to Rushing Fall in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf last November, Significant Form makes her 3-year-old debut in Sunday’s $100,000 Memories of Silver Stakes, the co-feature on Aqueduct’s closing-day 10-race program.

Significant Form crossed the finish line first in her first two starts last year. She overcame a stumble to finish first in her debut last summer at Saratoga, but was disqualified for interference. She came back five weeks later to win the Miss Grillo at Belmont Park. In the Breeders’ Cup, Significant Form finished 2 1/2 lengths behind Rushing Fall, but wasn’t helped by an early move in the race.

“Significant Form had some tough trips,” Brown said. “Her Breeders’ Cup trip was not ideal. She made a big early move and made the lead too soon.”

Brown also entered Wealth Effect, who returns to turf after a fourth behind Midnight Disguise in the Busanda on Jan. 25.

Jimmy Toner, who trained the multiple Grade 1 winner Memories of Silver, sends out Coffee Crush for owner Sophie Flay, the daughter of celebrity chef Bobby Flay.

Coffee Crush makes her first start since winning a maiden race here last December by 3 1/4 lengths. Toner had thought about getting a race in her at Gulfstream Park, but he opted to wait for this spot.

Coffee Crush could play out as the lone speed under Manny Franco.

Oh Zap won both of her starts at 2, both for Christophe Clement. Sweet Sting comes out of a fourth-place finish in a first-level allowance at Gulfstream. Layla Noor was expected to run in Saturday’s Weber City Miss Stakes at Laurel and scratch from this spot.

KEY CONTENDERS

Significant Form, by Creative Cause
Last 3 Beyers: 79-78-70

◗ Wasn’t up to handling stablemate Rushing Fall – no one has – in the Breeders’ Cup, but doesn’t meet anybody of that filly’s caliber in this spot.

◗ Has been working with Rushing Fall, who made successful 3-year-old debut in Appalachian Stakes on April 7 at Keeneland.

Coffee Crush, by Medaglia d’Oro
Beyers: 77-60

◗ Didn’t have the smoothest of trips when fifth in her debut, but then came back to win a maiden race while loose on the lead over this turf course last December.

“I thought she’d run well first time out and she did, considering she didn’t come out of the gate well,” said Toner, noting that getting beat first time out “is not the worst thing in the world.”

“She got a lot of experience out of it,” he said.

Oh Zap, by Ghostzapper
Beyers: 72-47

◗ Was an eye-catching last-to-first winner of a maiden race here Nov. 25, a race that produced two next-out winners including Go Noni Go, who won the Bourbonette Oaks at Turfway Park in March.

◗ Gets Lasix for the first time.