Sweet Reason good to go in Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint

ELMONT, N.Y. - Sweet Reason, who came out of her second-place finish in the Grade 1 Cotillion at Parx on Sept. 20 with an eye injury, returned to the work tab Sunday morning, drilling three furlongs in a quick 34.63 seconds over Belmont Park’s main track, a move that convinced her connections to move on to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Nov. 1 at Santa Anita.

“That answered my question,” trainer Leah Gyarmati said. “I wanted her to tell me what she wanted to do. I was leaving it up to her. I only needed to know if she bounced back. It wasn’t a fitness question. That was really cool. She came out of it good.”

Sweet Reason worked with an extension blinker over her right eye to protect the injured area, though Gyarmati said it was more of a precaution.

Sweet Reason has won the Acorn and Test - both Grade 1 races around one turn - before finishing second to Untapable in the Cotillion, a 1 1/16-mile race around two turns.

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Gyarmati plans to give Sweet Reason a longer work next week, but wasn’t sure if that work would be in New York or California. Sweet Reason is tentatively scheduled to leave for Southern California on Saturday. Rain is forecast in New York later this week.

Also working Sunday for Gyarmati was Wonder Gal, who was timed by New York Racing Association clockers for six furlongs in 1:16 over the Belmont training track. She is being pointed to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.

Gyarmati said that Noble Moon is no longer under consideration for the Breeders’ Cup Classic and instead will be pointed to the Grade 3, $200,000 Discovery at Aqueduct on Nov. 1.