Continuing on with our advance selections for the upcoming Breeders’ Cup championship races this weekend at Santa Anita, we now turn to the Juvenile Fillies Turf - a race which has a tendency to perplex many horseplayers due to the relative equality of the competitors and their lightly raced backgrounds.
I’ll be completely honest here and admit that I don’t have a strong opinion in the Juvenile Filles Turf. I’m a bad enough turf handicapper as it is. Adding “juvenile” fillies to the mix only makes this more of a crapshoot for me.
The field for the Juvenile Fillies Turf looks like this (according to the advance entries released last week):
- Champagne d’Oro
- Connie and Michael
- Dad’s Crazy
- Elusive Galaxy
- Hatheer
- House of Grace
- In the Slips
- Jungle Tale
- Junia Tepzia
- La Nez
- Lillie Langtry
- Lisa’s Kitten
- Potosina
- Rose Catherine
- Smart Seattle
- Tapitsfly
- Zilva
All things being equal, I’ll likely roll the dice a bit with my boy Graham Motion and hope that his combo of ZILVA and SMART SEATTLE can fire over the Santa Anita grass. It would absolutely make my weekend to see Graham notch another Breeders’ Cup victory on his belt – especially after the retirement of the beloved Better Talk Now earlier in the year.
Apart from that I thought that LILLIE LANGTRY appeared to have some solid European form coming into this race. The question will of course be whether the daughter of Danehill Dancer wants to go the extra furlong here? I see no reason to suspect that will be a problem, but it’s nonetheless something to consider.
The rest of the field seems fairly evenly matched, so hopefully the paddock and post parade impressions will help seperate these guys a bit. Suffice to say this is probably a spot to spread deep on your exotics.
If you’re a Medaglia d’Oro player (a recent innovation that just came into existence during this season), then perhaps you like Champagne d’Oro. By the way, is it just me, or when you read this horse’s name do you not picture Christopher Walken doing his Saturday Night Live skit, announcing that some unsuspecting lady has “spilled their champ-ah-nya?”
If you’re a Beyer Figure handicapper, you’ll no doubt be attracted to ROSE CATHERINE and CONNIE AND MICHAEL.
If you’re a “recent form” player, then horses like HOUSE OF GRACE, IN THE SLIPS, JUNIA TEPZIA, and LA NEZ make sense.
If, like a Facebook friend (whose name ironically happens to be Lisa) you enjoy playing “cat themed” horse names, then perhaps LISA’S KITTEN is the horse for you?
Pick your poison here. As I stated earlier, I’m a Graham Motion guy, so that’s where I’ll wind up.
Selections:
- Zilva
- Lillie Langtry
- Smart Seattle
Go get ‘em Graham!
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