Baker’s Dozen Listing of Maiden Watch 2YOs Competing in BC

This column highlights the performances of maidens who’ve made not more than 5 begins and who both bought for greater than $500,000 at public public sale, have siblings which can be grade/group winners, or have dams which can be grade/group winners. BloodHorse analysis reveals maiden winners, specifically, who meet these standards usually tend to go on to be graded stakes winners. The listing beneath highlights horses which have met the Maiden Watch standards prior to now 11 months and have gone on to develop into starters on this 12 months’s Breeders’ Cup Championships Nov. 1-2 at Del Mar.

A baker’s dozen sampling of 2-year-olds from 11 months’ value of Maiden Watch scouting have arrived at racing’s grandest stage: the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. Solely 2-year-olds, the listing includes maiden winners hailing from the seashores of Del Mar to historic Saratoga, and even some Horseshoe Indianapolis in between. These juveniles broke their maidens on dust, turf, sprinting, and round two turns, with the earliest coming June 13 (Nooni) and the final of the 13 taking their photograph as late as Sept. 6. Though their journeys to Del Mar diversified, all of those Maiden Watchers succeeded in taking that arduous subsequent step from maiden winner to grade 1 contender and can be within the beginning gate on Future Stars Friday Nov. 1.

Main the cost of this precocious bunch of colts and fillies is the 3-1 morning line favourite for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), Flanagan Racing’s undefeated Chancer McPatrick . The strapping son of McKinzie   caught Maiden Watch’s consideration after his eye-popping debut July 27 at Saratoga Race Course. Though he didn’t draw away by a number of lengths or run an excellent remaining time for the 6 1/2 furlongs, the colt’s professionalism in circling the sphere in a last-to-first efficiency might solely function a precursor of the greatness to come back.

Flash ahead to Breeders’ Cup time, and the championship is effectively inside his attain.

From his maiden win, Chancer McPatrick took his abilities to the subsequent stage with workmanlike scores over the very best 2-year-olds within the East within the Hopeful Stakes (G1) and Champagne Stakes (G1). The Chad Brown trainee, a $725,000 2-year-old buy out of this 12 months’s Ocala Breeders’ Sale Spring Sale of 2-Yr-Olds in Coaching, now will battle a handful of contemporary faces, together with some Maiden Watch stars from the West Coast.

Juvenile contenders Citizen Bull  and Getaway Automotive  stamped their Maiden Watch worthiness with spectacular So-Cal first-out scores for coach Bob Baffert. Each high-priced colts would go on to seize graded stakes later, with Citizen Bull defeating Getaway Automotive of their remaining prep for the Juvenile within the Oct. 5 American Pharoah Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita Park.

Baffert additionally trains the costliest Maiden Watcher to line up for Breeders’ Cup Friday within the $1.8 million Nooni . Owned by Zedan Racing Stables, the daughter of Win Win Win  topped the Ocala Breeders’ Gross sales March Sale of Two-Yr-Olds in Coaching when she sizzled the quickest quarter-mile of the underneath tack present in :20 1/5. Nooni annihilated her rivals by 9 1/4 lengths going gate to wire in her Santa Anita unveiling earlier than capturing the Sorrento Stakes (G3) at Del Mar. Runner-up within the Oak Leaf Stakes (G1) Oct. 5, it is doubtless the fiery Florida-bred will attempt to stretch her velocity so far as she will be able to on the entrance finish within the $2 million Juvenile Fillies (G1).

The perfect-bred member of the bunch is arguably Repole Steady’s Mentee . A full brother to 2023 champion 2-year-old and this 12 months’s Travers Stakes (G1) hero, Fierceness , Mentee and his brother develop into the eighth pair of full siblings to contest the Breeders’ Cup in the identical 12 months once they make their respective begins within the Basic (G1) and Juvenile Turf (G1T). Fierceness and Mentee are each educated by Corridor of Famer Todd Pletcher.

Whereas Fierceness has by no means raced on the turf, Mentee took to the floor spectacularly within the Oct. 4 Futurity Stakes (G3T)—powering to a 3 1/2-length win through the Belmont on the Massive A fall assembly. Though Mentee excelled on the grass, he graduated in track-record time on Aqueduct’s principal oval June 15 when he sprinted 5 furlongs in :56.97.

BloodHorse Maiden Watch
Earlier Maiden Watch 3-year-old and 2-year-old maiden winners which can be beginning within the 2024 Breeders’ Cup World Championships
Horse	Date/Observe of Maiden Win	Sire	Dam	Maiden Watch Eligibility Standards	Breeders’ Cup Race Entered
Chancer McPatrick	July 27 at Saratoga Race Course	McKinzie	Bernadreamy	$725K 2-Yr-Previous	Juvenile
Citizen Bull	Aug. 17 at Del Mar	Into Mischief	No Joke	$675K Yearling	Juvenile
Ferocious	Aug. 3 at Saratoga Race Course	Flatter	Napier	$1.3M 2-Yr-Previous	Juvenile
Getaway Automotive	July 20 at Del Mar	Curlin	Give up Now	$700K Yearling	Juvenile
Dream On	July 14 at Ellis Park	Not This Time	Mamma Kimbo	Dam is a G2SW	Juvenile Turf
Mentee	June 15 at Belmont on the Massive A	Metropolis of Mild	Nonna Bella	Full Sibling to G1SW Fierceness	Juvenile Turf
Minaret Station	Sept. 6 at Horseshoe Indianapolis	Instilled Regard	Beau Recall	Dam is a G2SW	Juvenile Turf
Nooni	June 13 at Santa Anita Park	Win Win Win	Unanimity	$1.8M 2-Yr-Previous	Juvenile Fillies
Quickick	Sept. 1 at Saratoga Race Course	McKinzie	Graeme Six	$550K Yearling; Half Sibling to G3SW Cali Star; Dam is a G3SW	Juvenile Fillies
Correto	Sept. 1 at Kentucky Downs	English Channel	Spooky Kitten	Full Sibling to G2SW Spooky Channel	Juvenile Fillies Turf
Kilwin	July 27 at Ellis Park	Twirling Sweet	Spanish Star	Half Sibling to G2SW One Timer	Juvenile Fillies Turf
Might Day Prepared	Aug. 4 at Saratoga Race Course	Tapit	Nemoralia	Dam is a G3SW	Juvenile Fillies Turf
Governor Sam	July 19 at Saratoga Race Course	Inconceivable	I am Betty G	Half Sibling to G3SW Pin Up Betty	Juvenile Turf Dash