Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint

Stormy Embrace counting on a smooth break in BC Filly and Mare Sprint

Marty McGee|Oct 29, 2018

Stormy Embrace trains at Churchill on Oct. 29

Barbara D. Livingston Stormy Embrace trained over the Churchill Downs surface for the first time on Monday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – If not for an awkward start in her latest outing, Stormy Embrace might be entering the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on a four-race win streak. But the 4-year-old filly was away a step slowly in the Sept. 8 Sheer Drama at Gulfstream Park and finished third.

“The race won’t look very good on paper, but she actually ran really big,” said trainer Kathleen O’Connell. “She just had too much ground to make up.”

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Stormy Embrace, who earned a Win and You’re In berth into the seven-furlong Filly-Mare Sprint with a six-length victory in the Princess Rooney in late June, arrived here from Florida over the weekend and trained over the Churchill surface for the first time Monday.

“It looked like she handled it really well,” said O’Connell. “We’re excited about her chances.”

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