This is the second in a series of blogs featuring the 2009 Breeders’ Cup, to be held at Santa Anita Park on November 6th and 7th. I will look at each division in the coming days and weeks, and today is the juvenile fillies turn.
Santa Anita held the final local prep (Oak Leaf Stakes) on Oct 4th, and Blind Luck came out on top.
The daughter of Pollard’s Vision, trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, rallied from off the pace and spurted away by more than two lengths under Tyler Baze. She stopped the clock in 1:43.19 and paid $9. …read more

Dream Empress punched her ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies with a sharp off the pace tally in Friday’s Darley Alcibiades at Keeneland, and D Wayne Lucas 2nd timer Be Smart was a clear 2nd and is a likely Santa Anita participant as well. Below is the replay, courtesy of YouTube.

Forever Together powerfully mowed down Precious Kitten in Friday’s other BC prep, the flat mile First Lady for grassy fillies and mares. Below is the replay, courtesy of YouTube.

Now, let’s glance at Saturday’s Cup preps…
Grade 3 Phoenix – six furlongs (polytrack)
Six of the 12 entrants are multiple …read more

The Breeders’ Cup is just three weeks away, and a couple of preps will be run on Keeneland’s opening day Friday (10-3-08) card. The First Lady for fillies and mares will be run at a mile on the turf, and the Alcibiades is a mile and a sixteenth Polytrack affair for two-year-old fillies.
The Grade 1 $400k First Lady – One Mile (turf)
There seems to be plenty of pace present with Dreaming of Anna, Roshani, Bayou’s Lassie, and Rosinka. 2-1 favorite Precious Kitten projects a nice ground saving stalking trip, but this race might boil down to a couple of …read more