You’re My Girl to supplement to BC Juvenile Fillies
In 2000, Mike Gatsas put up $360,000 to supplement Gander to the Breeders’ Cup Classic and walked away with nothing as the New York-bred gelding finished ninth, 12 3/4 lengths behind Tiznow.
Twenty-two years later, Gatsas is ready put up another hefty fee to participate in the Breeders’ Cup. At least this time he has partners. Gatsas, Hidden Brook Farm and Randy Hill will pay a $100,000 supplemental fee to run You’re My Girl in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Nov. 4 at Keeneland, Gatsas said Sunday.
“I’m not a big fan of doing that, I did it with Gander one time, but she deserves a shot,” Gatsas said. “I think she ran really well against a really nice filly. We want to go, we’re game to go. That’s the fun part of racing, is running in November at Keeneland.”
You’re My Girl, a New York-bred daughter of Overanalyze trained by John Terranova, won her debut on Sept. 2 at Saratoga by 14 1/2 lengths. She made her next start in the Frizette, run over a sloppy track, in which she finished second, one length behind Chocolate Gelato, and 2 3/4 lengths in front of the Grade 1 Spinaway winner, Leave No Trace.
“I was hoping we didn’t get on the rail in that last race with all that water,” Gatsas said.
Gatsas said Terranova told him You’re My Girl has come out of the race really well.
“Numbers-wise, she fits with everybody,” Gatsas said.
Trainer Phil Serpe said Leave No Trace will also continue on to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. Leave No Trace had some trouble at the gate and Serpe believes she did not like the sloppy track.
“She popped the gate, hit the side of the gate leaving there and I don’t think she loved that track a whole lot,” Serpe said. “It seemed like she wasn’t picking up a lot of ground in the stretch on that track for some reason.”
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