Cathryn Sophia, winner of this year's Kentucky Oaks, will not compete in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint as scheduled. She instead will be sold at the Fasig-Tipton November sale in Lexington, Ky.
Chuck Zacney, the owner of Cathryn Sophia, entered her in the sale in August. On Thursday evening, Zacney confirmed he has decided to sell her at the auction. Cathryn Sophia will be part of the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment.
Breakin the Fever won the $50,000 Leon Reed Memorial for the second straight year on Wednesday. He is now 11 for 13 at Finger Lakes and has a career record of 13 wins from 23 starts and earnings of $355,721.
A fast son of Roaring Fever, Breakin the Fever defeated older horses in the Reed Memorial last year as a 3-year-old. On Wednesday, he outsprinted Baime for the early lead in the six-furlong race for New York-breds, then held on by a neck to defeat 16-1 Sundae On Sunday, who closed from far back.
In Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf action last weekend, Big Score asserted himself as the leading California hope for the race, Keep Quiet looked like the best in the Midwest, Ticonderoga showed that he remains a talented work in progress, and everyone still was waiting to find out whom trainer Aidan O’Brien planned to send.
Dale Romans watched the last round of prep races for the Grade 1, $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile like a golfer already in the clubhouse with a two-stroke lead.
Romans, the trainer of Iroquois Stakes winner Not This Time, saw good performances from the Chad Brown-trained Practical Joke in the Champagne Stakes and Classic Empire, trained by Mark Casse, in the Breeders’ Futurity, but he still likes his position on the course.
In 2015, Da Big Hoss was a 60-1 afterthought in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland. He finished sixth of 12, 6 1/2 lengths behind the winner, the 3-year-old filly Found.
Da Big Hoss is scheduled for another start in the $4 million BC Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 5. This time, his price will be far lower and the expectations far higher.
Da Big Hoss has won his last four starts at four different venues – in Kentucky, Illinois, and New York – since April and approaches the BC Turf in the best form of his career.
From his Florida home, owner Martin Schwartz watched with disappointment when Cavale Doree finished fifth in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac at Chantilly Racecourse in France on Oct. 2.
The Prix Marcel Boussac, France’s top race for 2-year-old fillies, was the first race on the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe program. As the day continued, Schwartz noted few winners closing from well off the pace.
“After several races were run, there was a tremendous bias,” Schwartz said last weekend. “She’s a strong closer.”
ARCADIA, Calif. – Air travel from New York or Kentucky out to California for the Breeders’ Cup is not complicated. Cavorting stayed home in New York all spring and summer and won three graded stakes. Now comes autumn, and Cavorting soon will head to California.
“We’re going to an away game; it’s not a challenge,” trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said this week from New York. “It’s a flight, and shipping.”
No more, no less – no big deal.
Dortmund will run in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 4 at Santa Anita, trainer Bob Baffert said Tuesday. Among his possible opponents in the Dirt Mile are Runhappy, last year's Breeders' Cup Sprint winner, and Frosted, who also is being considered for the Classic.
Dortmund will be cutting back to a mile following a runner-up finish to California Chrome in the Grade 1 Awesome Again at 1 1/8 miles Oct. 1 at Santa Anita. Dortmund pressed California Chrome through quick fractions and ran on through the stretch to equal his best career Beyer Speed Figure, a 110.
Frosted is still under consideration for the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic and the $1 million Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said Tuesday.
The Classic will be run Nov. 5 at Santa Anita, and the Dirt Mile will be run Nov. 4 there.
"Hopefully we’ll have a decision made sometime in the near future,” McLaughlin said.
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