Society Leads Homebred Cohort in BC Filly & Mare Dash

This 12 months’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Dash (G1) can be a contest between breeding applications extra so than racing stables.

The seven-furlong check on Del Mar’s primary monitor has attracted 11 entries that embrace eight homebreds. Juddmonte has two contenders in a number of grade 1-placed, grade 2 winner Scylla  and a number of allowance non-compulsory claiming winner Nice . The opposite proprietor/breeders represented embrace John Gallegos (One Magic Philly ), Keith Abrahams (Kirstenbosch ), Klaravich Stables (Methods and Means ), Peter E. Blum Thoroughbreds (Society ), Rabbah Bloodstock (Frost At Daybreak ), and Stonestreet Stables (Zeitlos ).

The sector consists of three grade 1 winners in Society, Vahva , and Methods and Means.

Society brings one of many strongest data into the Filly & Mare Dash. She completed fourth on this race final 12 months after she was compelled to examine with lower than a quarter-mile to go by eventual winner Goodnight Olive . Getting the 5-year-old daughter of Gun Runner   again to the Breeders’ Cup has been central to her plan for the 12 months, which included a seven-month break.

“We needed the Breeders’ Cup to be her third race, and we deliberate her schedule with these three races in thoughts,” mentioned coach Steve Asmussen, referring to her earlier begins within the June 22 Chicago Stakes (G3) and the Aug. 24 Ballerina Handicap (G1), after her victory by 3 1/4 lengths within the Ballerina. “She’s clearly very quick and really beneficiant, so we gave her extra spacing in her works, and he or she got here again in coaching to get to the Breeders’ Cup.”

Society, with jockey Tyler Gaffalione, bought the plan began proper with a great third within the Chicago Stakes at Churchill Downs after which made the subsequent step an enormous one with a commanding win within the Ballerina over Scylla and Vahva. The Ballerina, a Breeders’ Cup Problem Collection: Win and You are In race for the Filly & Mare Dash, was Society’s second profession grade 1 win, following a 5 3/4-length win within the 2022 Cotillion Stakes (G1). The mare has compiled a sturdy file at seven furlongs with 4 wins and two thirds out of seven begins on the distance.

Vahva, a 4-year-old daughter of Gun Runner, will present loads of competitors for Society and others. She has not been off the board in her 4 begins this 12 months, which embrace successful the Derby Metropolis Distaff Stakes (G1) and beating Society within the Chicago Stakes. Vahva additionally has extra confirmed success at seven furlongs, with a 5-2-1 file from eight begins on the distance. The filly is educated by Cherie DeVaux for companions Belladonna Racing, Edward Jr. and Lynne Hudson, West Level Thoroughbreds, Good Guys Stables, Twin Brook Stables, Steve Hornstock, LBD Secure, Manganaro Bloodstock, and Runnels Racing.

Klaravich Stables’ Methods and Means, a 3-year-old daughter of Sensible Joke   (additionally campaigned by Klaravich with William Lawrence) comes into the Filly & Mare Dash with consecutive wins within the Take a look at Stakes (G1) and the Gallant Bloom Stakes (G2), which she received by 4 lengths.

Stonestreet Stables’ Zeitlos, a 4-year-old daughter of Curlin   raced with Peter Leidel, additionally comes into the Breeders’ Cup off consecutive wins within the Open Thoughts Stakes and the Thoroughbred Membership of America Stakes (G2), a Breeders’ Cup Problem Collection qualifier. Stonestreet bred Goodnight Olive who received the 2022-23 editions of the Filly & Mare Dash.