The juvenile filly division was loaded this summer at Saratoga. Just who is the best of that group should be determined Saturday at Belmont Park when Vequist, Dayoutoftheoffice, and Cantata top a talented field of seven 2-year-old fillies going one mile in the Grade 1 Frizette.
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Thunder Moon, eye-catching winner of the Group 1 National Stakes at The Curragh, and Chindit, unbeaten from three starts, the most recent a sharp score in the Group 2 Champagne at Doncaster, head an unusually deep renewal of the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes on Saturday at Newmarket.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Aunt Pearl never gave the competition a chance when opening up early and proceeding to set a stakes record Wednesday in the 30th running of the Grade 2, $150,000 Jessamine on the Keeneland turf.
Ridden by Florent Geroux, Aunt Pearl returned $5 as a slight favorite after finishing 2 1/2 lengths ahead of the runner-up, Spanish Loveaffair, the 8-5 second choice in a field of 11 2-year-old fillies. Ingrassia was another 2 3/4 lengths back in third.
Trainer Todd Pletcher won the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf with Pluck, and on Sunday at Keeneland came up with a leading North American hope for the race’s 2020 renewal when Mutasaabeq scored an eye-catching win the Grade 2 Bourbon Stakes.
The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint usually attracts its share of runners who have already done a fair bit of traveling in their nascent careers. In addition to the European shippers who target the race, Wesley Ward also typically sends in youngsters who have been racking up frequent-flyer miles.
Among the well-traveled runners in this year’s field will be Bodenheimer. The colt will become the sixth Washington-bred to start in a Breeders’ Cup race after his travels through the Midwest led him to a victory in the local prep at Breeders’ Cup host track Keeneland.
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At this year’s Breeders’ Cup, they are saving the best for last. The $6 million Classic, the last of the 14 Breeders’ Cup races to be run on Nov. 6 and 7 at Keeneland, is shaping up as one of the best in the event’s 37 years, with the titles of Horse of the Year, champion older dirt male, and champion 3-year-old male all potentially in play.
If you think Ivar’s smashing win Oct. 3 in the Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile came out of nowhere, you need to go to the videotape.
Ivar’s three wins last year in Argentina looked a lot more like his Shadwell performance than did his three previous starts this year in the United States, and trainer Paulo Lobo believes Ivar can run at least as well next month in the Breeders’ Cup Mile as he did Saturday at Keeneland.
Ireland-based trainer Dermot Weld has had his share of success in the United States, winning several Grade 1 races including a memorable performance by Go and Go in the 1990 Belmont Stakes.
However, he has yet to taste success in the Breeders’ Cup, a series in which he is winless with 16 previous starters.
“You’ve got to have the right horse for it,” Weld said Wednesday. “It’s a wonderful occasion. It’d be nice to come back with a nice runner.”
When he loses, which has not occurred very often in the last year, United tends to keep it close.
A 5-year-old gelding, United was beaten a head by eventual Horse of the Year Bricks and Mortar in the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita last November as a 51-1 outsider. A month later, United was second by a neck in the Grade 2 Hollywood Turf Cup at Del Mar.