Jim McCue / Maryland Jockey Club
Ebony Rose drives to victory in Saturday's feature at Pimlico, the $85,000 Hilltop Breeders' Cup Stakes for three-year-old fillies on the soft turf.
Trainer Todd Pletcher accounted for both parts of the exacta with his uncoupled entry of Ebony Rose and Its Just a Dream in Saturday's $82,250 Hilltop Breeders' Cup at Pimlico.
Ebony Rose ($6.20), second choice in a field of six 3-year-old fillies, earned her first stakes victory and third career win in six starts with a powerful move in midstretch to run down pacesetter Saoirse Cat, the even-money favorite.
Its Just a Dream rallied belatedly down the middle of the turf course to get second, 1 1/4 lengths behind her stablemate.