Thorpedo Anna Again Towards Fillies in Cotillion

At this level, Thorpedo Anna  wants no introduction. Towards the boys within the Aug. 24 Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, she clinched her spot in horse racing lore with a grandstand-shaking stretch rally that ended only a head in need of victory.

With the final word take a look at of her season now behind her, the daughter of Quick Anna  returns to the filly division searching for a fourth grade 1 victory within the $1 million Cotillion Stakes (G1) at Parx Racing Sept. 21.

Video: Draftkings Travers S. (G1)

Even with a shock defeat to certainly one of her seven challengers Saturday, Thorpedo Anna has just about locked up the Eclipse Award for 3-year-old filly. Nevertheless, a visit to the Cotillion winner’s circle continues to be a vital résumé addition in her marketing campaign for Horse of the 12 months.

The Kenny McPeek trainee has earned greater than $2 million this yr for Brookdale Racing, Mark Edwards, Judy Hicks, and Magdalena Racing, and, regardless of her loss to Fierceness , is getting into off a career-best Equibase Velocity Determine of 109.

Common rider Brian Hernandez Jr. will journey to Bensalem, Pa., the place Thorpedo Anna will break from submit 6 because the 4-5 morning line favourite,.

The Challengers

Connections of the seven fillies making an attempt an upset might want to hope that the large Travers effort could have taken a toll on the presumptive champion, leaving her susceptible on this 1 1/16-mile race.

Lea Farms’ Energy Squeeze  has quietly been placing collectively a formidable yr herself, with 5 wins from seven begins for earnings of $860,870. The Union Rags   filly took benefit of Thorpedo Anna’s absence within the Aug. 17 Alabama Stakes (G1), getting up within the closing jumps to win the 1 1/4-mile race by a head. Skilled by Jorge Delgado, the 4-1 second alternative breaks from the rail, with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. changing the injured Javier Castellano.

Early this spring, it was Godolphin’s Tarifa  who led the division. Now as the autumn begins, the Bernardini filly finds herself the 5-1 Cotillion third alternative. In her first begin since a disappointing ninth behind Thorpedo Anna in a sloppy version of the Kentucky Oaks (G1), the Brad Cox trainee completed second within the Aug. 11 Audubon Oaks at Ellis Park. She breaks from submit 3 with Flavien Prat.

Additionally within the Discipline

• Sidamara  misplaced by a nostril to Energy Squeeze in her final begin and stakes debut, the July 8 Delaware Oaks (G3).
• Mystic Lake  has risen within the dash division, profitable two graded stakes in her final three begins. The Cotillion might be her first race past a mile.
• Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (G2) winner Gun Music  disillusioned in her lone assembly with Thorpedo Anna within the June 7 Acorn Stakes (G1) however gained Parx’s native prep, the Aug. 24 Cathryn Sophia Stakes, by 2 1/2 lengths.
• Scalable  defeated Gun Music within the July 27 Monmouth Oaks (G3) by three-quarters of a size, posting a career-best 97 Equibase Velocity Determine.
• Everland  has made solely two of 12 begins on grime, together with a fifth within the Kentucky Oaks. She is cross-entered Saturday within the $175,000 Seneca In a single day Stakes at Churchill Downs.

The Cotillion is race 12 with submit time at 5:20 p.m. ET.